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A Return to Sanity: Supreme Court Upholds Bans on "Gender Affirming Surgery" for Children 6-3 in a Major Repudiation of the Extremist Transgender Cult Update: Thomas Warns Against Deferring to Fake "Experts"
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BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's law banning genital mutilation of minors under the guise of so-called "trans" surgery.
"The Court's role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of [the ban on surgically mutilating minors], but only to ensure that the law does not violate equal protection guarantees," the Supreme Court ruled. "It does not. Questions regarding the law's policy are thus appropriately left to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process."
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Tennessee law banning specific transgender medical treatments for adolescents in the state is not discriminatory, ruling 6-3 to uphold the law.
At issue in the case, United States v. Skrmetti, was whether Tennessee's Senate Bill 1, which "prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow 'a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex' or to treat 'purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity,'" violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The ACLU claimed that because girls who experience "precocious puberty" at ages as young as nine are given hormone blockers to delay their puberty until 12 or 13, it's "discriminatory" to forbid girls from taking hormone blockers to stop their puberty altogether, and then flood them with testosterone to create weird and unconvincing fake "boys."
That's like saying the law should treat a doctor who cuts into you to remove a tumor the same as a thug who stabs you on the street.
That law prohibits states from allowing medical providers to deliver puberty blockers and hormones to facilitate a minor's transition to another sex.
It also targets healthcare providers in the state who continue to provide such procedures to gender-dysphoric minors-- opening these providers up to fines, lawsuits and other liability.
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that the law question is not subject to heightened scrutiny "because it does not classify on any bases that warrant heightened review."
"This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field," he said. "The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound."
United States v. Skrmetti was one of the most closely watched cases of the Supreme Court's term, with potential ripple effects for ongoing legal battles over transgender rights -- including bathroom access and participation in school sports.
The ruling could also serve as a legal pretext in future cases involving LGBTQ+ protections, including whether sexual orientation qualifies as a "protected class" on par with race or national origin.
"The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it afford us license to decide them as we see best," he added. "Our role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of the law before us ... but only to ensure that it does not violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment. Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process."
All three liberal justices notably dissented in the case.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent that cited a long history of laws discriminating against others, noting that transgender persons in the U.S. make up less than 1% of the country's population. There are an estimated 1.3 million adults and 300,000 adolescents aged 13 to 17 who identify as transgender, according to the UCLA law school's Williams Institute.
She noted that SB1 "expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny."
"The majority contorts logic and precedent to say otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee's categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so long as 'any reasonably conceivable state of facts' might justify it," Sotomayor said, adding: "By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims."
"In sadness, I dissent," she said.
"Lifesaving medical treatment." Get f***ed you vile ugly swine.
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Justice Samuel Alito cited "hotly disputed" medical studies on the alleged benefits of such medical treatments, and told the government's attorney that those studies "found a complete lack of high-quality evidence showing that the benefits of the treatments in question here outweigh the risks."
"Do you dispute that?" Alito asked during oral arguments.
In his concurrence, Justice Thomas had this to say about fake phony Expertism:
This case carries a simple lesson: In politically contentious debates over matters shrouded in scientific uncertainty, courts should not assume that self-described experts are correct.
Deference to legislatures, not experts, is particularly critical here. Many prominent medical professionals have declared a consensus around the efficacy of treating children's gender dysphoria with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. They have dismissed grave problems undercutting the assumption that young children can consent to irreversible treatments that may deprive them of their ability to eventually produce children of their own.
They have built their medical determinations on concededly weak evidence. And, they have surreptitiously compromised their medical recommendations to achieve political
ends.
The Court today reserves "to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process" the power to decide how best to address an area of medical uncertainty and extraordinary importance. Ante, at 24. That sovereign pre-
rogative does not bow to "major medical organizations." Post, at 5, n. 5 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.). "[E]xperts and elites have been wrong before--and they may prove to be wrong again." Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.
That last part is Thomas citing himself, from a previous concurrence.
Meanwhile, another lowly district court judge, this one, get this, a Biden judge from Massachusetts, issues another insupportable nationwide ban.
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday broadened the scope of an earlier ruling that blocks the Trump administration from enforcing a controversial passport policy requiring Americans to list their sex "at conception," rather than their gender identity. The order now applies nationwide, protecting all transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans.
U.S. District Judge Julia E. Kobick, a Biden appointee, wrote that the plaintiffs in the case--originally just six named individuals--share the same injury as the broader class: an inability to obtain passports that accurately reflect their gender identity. Kobick concluded that the administration's policy is likely unconstitutional and not tied to any "important governmental interest."
The initial lawsuit was filed in February by the ACLU, its Massachusetts affiliate, and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP. It alleges the policy is driven by "impermissible animus" toward gender-nonconforming individuals. Following that, attorneys asked the court to expand the ruling to cover all individuals impacted by the rule, a request Kobick granted Tuesday.
The ruling halts enforcement of a key portion of President Trump's executive order, signed in his first hours back in office, which directed federal agencies to base official documents--including passports and Global Entry cards--on an individual's sex assigned at birth, not their gender identity. The policy also suspended the State Department's prior option that allowed applicants to self-select their gender marker, including the nonbinary "X" option.
Of course, the Democrat-Media Party's violent transgender street militias are threatening to murder Supreme Court Justices:
Far-left Trantifa extremists on @bluesky are encouraging people to assassinate the Supreme Court Justices who ruled that it was legal for Tennessee to ban the medical transitioning of minors. pic.twitter.com/bGHnayk4O4
Blue-collar workers have seen real wage growth of almost two percent in the first five months of President Donald Trump's second term, the largest increase for any administration in nearly 60 years.
The 1.7% pay bump is in stark contrast to negative growth under Joe Biden, according to new data from the US Department of the Treasury.
Since Richard Nixon in 1969, Trump has been the only president to record positive growth for blue-collar workers in his first five months. He also achieved 1.3% in his first term.
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The recovery from a 1.7% decline recorded in Biden's first five months, as inflation outpaced earnings, suggests a shift in economic conditions for this financially stressed segment of the workforce.
"The only other time it's been this high was... during President Trump's first term," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told me on the latest episode of the "Pod Force One" podcast, out Wednesday.
"We've seen real wages for hourly workers, non-supervisory workers, rise almost 2% in the first five months. ... No president has done that before."
Falling inflation has driven the significant improvement in blue-collar wages, lifting workers' take-home pay and living standards.
Bessent says wage growth is also fueled by the president's "emphasis on manufacturing" and commitment to remove illegal migrants from the workforce.
"Biden opened the border, and it was flooded," said Bessent. "And for working Americans, that's a disaster because it's pressure on their wages."
As soon as Trump took office, the percentage of voters saying the country was on the right track shot up from 26% to 42%. (It has now dropped to 41%, which is probably just statistical noise.)
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Thanks to @POTUSs pro-growth, America First policies, real wages for hourly workers are up nearly 2% in the first five months of @realDonaldTrumps second term the strongest growth in 60 years.
No president has done that before except President Trump in his first term. pic.twitter.com/gasjQn33eb
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) June 17, 2025
Last week, Ace posted a column about a Congressional sideshow wherein Governor Hochul (D[emon], NY) claimed not to remember any of the particulars about an incident in New York City where an illegal alien decided to turn a citizen into a human torch on a subway train. (reminder: don't comment on old threads). While I don't believe for a minute that Hochul wasn't well aware of the details and used the typical "I don't recall" dodge, the wider point is important.
Mark Halperin has been talking about this for a while. Democrats don't know what the public knows, or what the public is thinking, because the left-wing media "wraps them in blue bubble-wrap" to protect Democrats from being confronted with the horrors caused by their policies. Democrat politicians never realize the public is getting sick of being set on fire by lunatic illegal aliens, or having their daughters kidnapped and raped by illegal aliens fleeing their home countries because of outstanding rape charges, because the Blue Bubble-Wrap Media refuses to report on these stories.
All lefties wrap themselves snugly in this Blue Bubble-Wrap and go for years without ever realizing that their policies are causing rapes and murders.
This observation about "blue bubble wrap" is certainly true, and it underscores a serious risk. The apparent ignorance about the current state of affairs that many officials and Party loyalists exhibit (and for many of them, it is true ignorance) is evidence of the real underlying problem of censorship: an intelligence vacuum.
When there is no outlet for information because it is either crushed by the state (as it was throughout the West until Musk bought Twitter, and as it remains in many places and on most other platforms) or self-imposed by the loyalists and officials, it creates the appearance of total control. When you censor any negative information and suppress your opponents through official acts or informal policy, it makes it much harder for your opponents to learn anything. It makes it much harder for them to communicate. It makes it hard for them to figure out if their experiences are unique or widespread. It makes it hard for them to coordinate opposition. It helps to alienate them and atomize them because they think they are alone. These are all reasons for large-scale censorship, and the Party loves it for those reasons.
But the flip side of it is that it also denies the censors themselves of any information of what's actually going on. It's all smooth sailing with clear horizons all the time. They have total control and there are no major threats or opposition. That vacuum grows and gets harder and more untenable the longer it goes on. The final result is a sudden implosion that always seems to come out of nowhere. There is a reason small events appear to precipitate major, disruptive changes including the fall of governments. There is no feedback loop and no ability for the system to adapt. It denies itself vital information in the name of maintaining control, and then some small event is finally the "straw that broke the camel's back." They end up in shocked disbelief when some tiny thing causes the whole thing to collapse. Just whip out your ouija board and ask Ceausescu about that.
Setting aside the moral depravity of it, a major danger of censorship is the information vacuum it creates. At small scale in a personal echo chamber, it leads to shock and horror when the person is exposed to a contrary opinion he never knew existed in reality. At the largest scale in the center of a totalitarian regime, it leads to the utter inability to know when something is wrong and eventually a small incident easily leads to collapse.
This "blue bubble wrap" Ace talked about is the intelligence vacuum that leads to an inability to fathom the possibility that something is wrong. It isn't new, but our flavor of it is a bit different. The ability to pierce the vacuum without an implosion - to deflate that "bubble wrap" - is a valuable thing. Our system has various means of doing that, including communication and elections. It's why those are always battlegrounds - not the contests or messages themselves, but the venues as such.
Good morning kids. So with things really heating up over Iran as well as here at home, both situations put the sudden rushing to the hospital last night of Kristi Noem, the head of our Department of Homeland Security, into a new light. It could be just a freaky coincidence, but the timing could not be at a more crucial moment.
“Secretary Noem experienced an allergic reaction earlier today and was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and recovering,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement obtained by the Daily Caller. . . Noem was previously in Los Angeles, California, where Democratic Senator Alex Padilla interrupted a June 12 press conference she was conducting in response to the LA riots. Security forcibly removed the senator and reportedly handcuffed him. DHS accused Padilla of “disrespectful public theatre.”
Frankly, the fat filthy bastard is damned lucky to be alive. Because, given the flood of foreign criminals already in country as well as our own homegrown Leftist Schakowsky/Soros rent-a-mob cadres that always pop up in congressional hearings when they're not burnining looting and murdering in the name of peace love and understanding, If I were Noem, and likely carrying a firearm, I'd have not given a second thought to ventilating the fat bastard who was bull-rushing me.
And given what is happening now in Iran, with the potential for President Trump to deploy MOP ordnance to obliterate the last and perhaps most important Iranian nuclear facility inside and beneath the mountains at Fordow, The erased border courtesy of Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants that was already extremely porous prior to his installation as Obama's puppet in 2020, the potential for sleeper cells to cause murder and mayhem, on top of what the aforementioned native-born self-hating America-hating brainwashed Leftist droogs are already doing to us should scare the shit out of anyone who is even minimally aware of what's been going on at least since 9/11/01 or February of 1993 when we had the first World Trade Center truck bomb attack.
Born in Brooklyn on October 18, 1970, Jose Padilla is an American citizen and a Muslim convert who was arrested in May 2002 and was thereafter detained by the U.S. government for three-and-a-half years as an “enemy combatant” who aspired to contribute to the worldwide Islamic jihad by killing large numbers of Americans.
In his early teens, Padilla joined a mostly Puerto Rican gang called the Latin Disciples. He went on to compile a rap sheet of both juvenile and adult crimes — offenses ranging from aggravated assault to unlawful weapons possession to attempted theft. He was also involved in a violent assault and shooting where his victim later died from the injuries that Padilla helped inflict.
In the early 1990s, Padilla became a working member of the Benevolence International Foundation, a charity that had close financial ties to the al Qaeda terrorist network, the Abu Sayyaf Islamic rebels in the Philippines, and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
. . . After 9/11, Padilla spent some time living with Atef in the house where the latter was eventually killed by a U.S. air strike in November 2001. Seeking to avoid further danger, Padilla went to Pakistan, where he became acquainted with Osama bin Laden’s deputy Abu Zubaydah. Padilla approached Zubaydah with an idea: He wanted to follow Internet instructions for creating a nuclear bomb, and then detonate it somewhere in the United States. Skeptical about Padilla’s ability to carry out such an attack, Zubaydah suggested that wrapping explosives in uranium (to create a radiological “dirty bomb) might be more feasible...
. . . On January 22, 2008, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke sentenced Padilla to 17 years and four months in prison, as opposed to the life sentence the government was seeking. In explaining her decision, Judge Cooke underscored the serious nature of Mr. Padilla’s offenses, but added: “There is no evidence that these defendants personally maimed, kidnapped or killed anyone in the United States or elsewhere. There was never a plot to overthrow the United States government.”
And where is this wonderful humanitarian and bust out quintessential Democrat today??? (Per Wikipedia) Padilla is serving his sentence at ADX Florence prison in Florence, Colorado. Padilla's prisoner number is 20796-424; he is projected to be released in 2026.
So, With the Iranian regime apparently on the ropes, and threatening to unleash hell on Earth, Is that mere bluster of the Mad Mullahs in the bunker shrieking "Steiner will come" or the 12th Imam will QQM?!!!!
Remember, that Iran has been enriching Uranium for years. and with a non existent southern border and a very poorly watched northern border to say nothing of thousands of miles of Atlantic and Pacific coastline plus seaports where anything can be smuggled in or where corrupt LE and CBP agents can be bribed to look the other way, it is certainly a distinct possibility that quite a bit of radioactive material is already within our borders ready to be weaponized and used by who knows how many other Jose Padillas are walking our streets waiting for the Mullahs, to give the Go code, or who will just act on their own if Tehran should fall.
And, as for radioactive material for a dirty bomb, you don't necessarily need weapons-grade U-235 or Plutonium or Cobalt Thorium-G or whatever is used to detonate Atomic or thermonuclear devices. All you need is a not so very large amount of low level radioactive material such as is used in the medical profession. Strap a few pounds to some propane tanks and set it off in Times Square or near the Pentagon or wherever to create a toxic cloud of radioactive fallout. No, I'm not giving away any deep dark secrets that the evil Muslim savages haven't already figured out probably courtesy of Hose-B Padilla 25 years ago.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared “the battle begins” in an ominous post Tuesday, hours after President Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender.”
“In the name of #Haider, the battle begins. Ali returns to #Khaybar with his Zulfiqar.” Khamenei wrote on X in Farsi, referring to Islam’s first imam, Ali, who won the Battle of Khaybar with the sword Zulfiqar.
Khamenei’s sinister message comes hours after the Islamic Republic’s state media also warned of a “surprise” on Tuesday night into Wednesday that the “world will remember for centuries.”
Remember that Shiite Islam is predicated on armageddon being the precursor to their mythological 12th Imam returning to earth from some magic wishing well in the holy city of Qom to then usher in an eternal paradise on earth in the form of the world becoming Islamic for all time.
Now, as I understand it, the true believers regard/venerate that well as a scared site that must be protected at all costs. If a "STRAY" Israeli bomb were to take it out, it would also take out the fantasies of tens of millions of Muslims around the world. The 12th imam could never emerge. Islamic experts like Robert Spencer and others have stated this and when we had him on a previous episode of the podcast he reiterated this.
Forget Fordow. We need the John C. Holmes mega Qom Shot of all time to Seek out that well and destroy it. The psychological shock alone of that well's obliteration might well be more powerful and effective than the combined military defeats of Islam in all its wars against Israel and Western Christendom.
Meh, there's also that space rock in Mecca, but that's another story.
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“Secretary Noem experienced an allergic reaction earlier today and was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and recovering,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement obtained by the Daily Caller. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Taken By Ambulance To Washington DC Hospital
Michael Walsh: The Iranian mullahs are no better at fighting than Darius was (way back in 331 BC - jjs). . . The Israelis have shredded their Islamic cloak of teleological inevitability and have left them naked, figures of ridicule in a land they have terrorized for too long, and in which they now cower in fear: impotent old men whose god has failed them. In Praise of Instability
“Rather than a model for the future, Los Angeles today offers a masterclass in urban dysfunction,” Kotkin wrote last week in “Los Angeles has fallen.” “Drive through the streets of the South Side or along Central Avenue – historically black L.A.’s main thoroughfare, now predominantly Hispanic – and the ambience increasingly resembles that of Mexico City or Mumbai: cracked pavements, dilapidated buildings, outdoor swap-meet markets and food stalls serving customers, much as one would see in the developing world.” L.A. Riots: Just One More Symptom Of Far-Left California’s Sad Decline
The exiled Crown Prince of Iran took to social media Tuesday to encourage dissident Iranians to rise up and help topple the Islamic Republic’s oppressive, 46-year hold on the nation. Reza Pahlavi, 64, is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran and his third wife Farah Diba. He was officially named Crown Prince of Iran at age seven in 1967 during his father’s coronation. The Islamic revolution overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979, forcing the shah and his family into exile. ‘End This Nightmare’: Exiled Crown Prince of Iran Urges Iranians to Rise Up Against the ‘Falling’ Regime
A review of Persian-language outlets based outside Iran, which have broadcast a stream of comments and video updates from Iran residents in recent days, indicates that the conflict is widely seen as a war between Khamenei’s regime and Israel, not as an attack on the populace. (This is a very big deal and crucial both now and after the regime Please God is sent back to Hades from whence it came - jjs) ‘They strike, we dance’ — Iranians damn the regime amid Israeli barrage
The Israel-Iran conflict, now in its fifth day, has seen extensive military operations by both sides. Overnight, Israeli forces conducted targeted strikes on key Iranian military sites, including a command center in Tehran, where Maj. Gen. Ali Shadmani, Iran’s wartime chief of staff, was killed. Shadmani had been appointed just days earlier, following the death of his predecessor, Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, in another Israeli strike on Friday.According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the strike that killed Shadmani occurred “in the heart of Tehran” late Monday, with the target presenting a “sudden opportunity.” In a statement, the IDF declared that Maj. Gen. Shadmani’s death “adds to a series of eliminations of Iran’s most senior military leadership and degrades the chain of command of the Iranian armed forces.” ICYMI: Israel Eliminated Iran’s Top Military Leader, Again.
Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday defended President Donald J. Trump’s position on Iran in response to “crazy” accusations circulating on social media. Writing on X, Vance stated, “Look, I’m seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there’s a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue.”Vance noted Trump “has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” adding that Trump has encouraged his foreign policy team to reach a deal with Iran to achieve this goal, emphasizing that “Iran cannot have uranium enrichment” and that the America First leader has made it clear this would happen “one of two ways—the easy way or the ‘other’ way.” Here’s What VP Vance Had to Say About Trump and Iran…
Christopher F. Rufo: The underlying theory is that Donald Trump is an authoritarian leader on the cusp of becoming king. The “No Kings” Protest Is Pure Fantasy
Border Patrol agents did not release any illegal migrants into the United States during the month of May, a decrease from the more than 60,000 who were released into the U.S. the year before, according to a report. Promise Kept: Trump Blocked Every Border Migrant in May
Since Richard Nixon in 1969, Trump is the only president to record positive growth for blue-collar workers in the first five months of his term. During his first term, Trump also achieved a 1.3 percent increase. The current wage growth recovery follows a 1.7 percent decline during Biden’s initial months in office, when inflation outpaced earnings. Working Class Hero: Blue-Collar Wages Surging Under Trump.
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Reviewers scrutinized several of the grant applications for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), the EPA program that awarded $20 billion to green groups connected to Democrat donors and insiders, identifying concerns such as “excessive” executive pay, curious financial statements and limited oversight, according to documents first obtained by The Free Press and additional findings uncovered and compiled in PPT’s new report. The GGRF budget far exceeded any budget in all of EPA’s history, and the PPT report argues that the program was not administered with appropriate levels of oversight. EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s ‘Gold Bars’ Went To Politically-Connected Orgs Over Internal Red Flags, Watchdog Finds
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) initiated the lawsuit in March after the Trump administration cut roughly $400 million from the Ivy League university over its alleged failure to address antisemitism on campus. In the opinion, Trump-appointed district judge Mary Kay Vyskocil stated the challenge lacked standing as the plaintiffs themselves did not suffer any direct harm, and noted that Columbia itself was “conspicuously absent.” Trump Admin Scores Victory Against Columbia
After then-President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law throughout South Korea in December 2024, he was impeached and a “caretaker” government was put in place until elections could be held. Lee was elected June 3 and sworn in June 4. In the days since assuming office, Lee has taken a hard line on digital regulation, and it’s making some in the U.S. uneasy. (Beware slippery slopes - jjs) EXCLUSIVE: Tensions Mount As South Korea Plans On Targeting US Tech While Letting China Slide, Critics Say
This focus appears correctly centered on the FCC’s actual legal statutory authority to regulate the limited bandwidth of the electromagnetic spectrum to avoid conflicts in its use. Under Biden, the FCC instead focused on expanding its power beyond that statutory authority, claiming it had the right to determine how satellites were built, when they would be de-orbited, and in what manner. None of those activities have anything to do with bandwidth and the FCC’s legal responsibilities. Under Trump FCC shifts from regulating satellite construction and de-orbit to streamlining red tape
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
President Donald Trump showered praise on America’s soldiers for their sacrifices on Saturday during the 250th anniversary parade, celebrating the U.S. Army while the left-wing late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel mocked and ridiculed the event. “After all the hype, and money, somewhere around 50 million dollars, it was… boring,” Kimmel said Monday on Live. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Mock U.S. Army 250th Anniversary Parade: ‘Big, Stupid, and Boring’
A new YouGov survey reveals tattoos are more common among Republicans than Democrats. Pollsters asked 1115 U.S. adult citizens if they’d ever had a tattoo. 19% of Democrats answered “Yes, currently.” 27% of Independents and 27% of Republicans said the same. YouGov asked Americans the same question in 2015. They returned nearly opposite results. A decade ago, 26% of Democrats and 26% of Independents said they had a tattoo, while just 16% of Republicans said the same. Cultural Shift No One Is Talking About Perfectly Explains Why Democrats Are Bleeding Voters
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 17, 2025 [scampydog]
—Open Blogger
Good evening and thank you for checking in on the Tuesday, ONT. Some random, a few parts science, and 100% why not. Comment section won't bite - probably.
I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don't want to be in my way. I'll bet you are surprised that I don't even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can't help it, darling, nor can I - I don't understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don't want to remain alone - but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.
From publius:"Feynman did remarry, twice. Second ended in divorce, and the third lasted until his death. Here's a picture of him dancing with his third wife at the Nobel Ceremony in 1965. He was clowning a bit there, of course. There's some other pictures of him at the Nobel Ceremony. She died about a year after he did."
Perfect sphere found by astronomers. Riddle was bugging me, so I did what any self respecting Moron would do. I emailed publius.
In data collected by a powerful radio telescope, astronomers have found what appears to be a perfectly spherical bubble. We know more or less what it is - it's the ball of expanding material ejected by an exploding star, a supernova remnant - but how it came to be is more of a puzzle.
Venus: Rises about 2 hours before the Sun in June, and shines very brightly, low in the eastern sky, in the morning all month.
Mars: Visible in the west for a couple of hours after sunset all month. Drops lower in the sky as June continues, and passes very close to Regulus in the constellation Leo on June 16 and 17. (They will be about half a degree apart, or the width of the full moon.)
Jupiter: Visible quite low in the west after sunset for the first week of June, then lost in the Sun's glare after. Will re-appear in July in the morning sky.
Mercury: Becomes visible low in the west about 30 to 45 minutes after sunset in the last week and a half of June.
Saturn: Rises around 3 a.m. in early June, and around 1 a.m. by the end of the month. Begins the month near Venus in the dawn sky, but rapidly pulls away, rising higher as June goes on.
More from publius"Venus and Earth's orbital periods have a ratio that is very close to 13:8, meaning Venus completes 13 orbits per 8 earth orbits almost exactly. Venus thus has 5 inferior conjunctions occurring very close to the same point in the sky every 8 years. That works out to a cycle of about 9 months between conjunctions. Since Venus is an inferior planet, we can never see it overhead during the middle of the night, only on the eastern morning or western evening side of the sky close before sunrise or close after sunset.
The window around these inferior conjunctions are when Venus gets close and bright. During a window of several months around the inferior conjunction, Venus first appears bright in the western sky right after sunset when it's on the eastern side of the sun, then disappears into the sun at inferior conjunction. It then quickly whips to the western side of the sun to appear in the early morning, still close and bright. It then continues in its orbit, getting dimmer and father away and closer to the sun in the sky, until it repeats the cycle 9 months later. So Venus flips between "Evening Star" and "Morning Star" modes. Believe it or not, when Venus is near maximum brightness during the Evening and Morning Star modes, they get a lot of UFO reports from those not familiar with what's in the sky above them.
You can plot this from a geocentric reference plane, and see the relative position of Venus and the Sun over this 8 year cycle. Venus' path makes a nice 5-sided pattern centered around the earth, sometimes poetically dubbed the Five-petal Rose of Venus, seen here on this Earthsky page."
Big AoS thank to you publius!
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That's one way to learn.
If you're going to do something stupid please keep your face very far away from it pic.twitter.com/BRJCKTQMnf
Merriam-Webster defines safe space as: a place (as on a college campus) intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.
Sure doesn't look like they have much conviction with that definition. These ICE/No Kings/Antifa/Commie/Leftist rioters are up in everyone's face (with theirs covered, just like their Klan predecessors) - not exactly the safe space champions they pretend to be.
Liberals are unwilling and/or unable to live by their own rules. Actions and behavior by convenience, and when it suits them. Their moral code, impulse control, and self restraint disappear just like limited time offers. They simply do whatever they want - without concern for consequences. Consequence winds are changing, however.
First day of summer is June 20th. Unless you live in Phoenix, where it's know as "just another day of 110+ heat."
Let's roll through some decades of summer songs. Which songs left a dent in your summer brain? Make your case in the comments. (and if linking in comments, please use tinyurl or another link shortening tool).
1950's: Thought about Lollipop, but we are going with Eddie Cochran. Summertime Blues, 1958.
1980's: Damn, this decade is tough as a Gen X'er. The Clash. Should I Stay or Should I Go, 1981.
1990's: All the 'cool kids' spent a summer mocking the video. Yet they danced and sang along. Rob Van Winkle. Vanilla Ice. Ice, Ice, Baby, 1990.
2000's: Flame away in the comments. This came down to: Nelly/Country Grammar, Ride Wit Me or.... Buckcherry. Crazy B*tch, 2006. NSFW.
2010's: Lost musical decade. Kids won a lot of the radio car battles. Meghan Trainor. All About that Bass, 2014.
Will close the summer song - musical section with this all-timer.
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That friend that is fun, has three dirty jokes for every occasion, inked, and is uninterested in approval from the easily offended.
Random dude at a convenience store asked for directions. He was heading down to the Minneapolis suburbs later in the day to lip off to the protesters.
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Kindly direct all white New Balance dad shoe donations to:scampydog at proton dot me. Nevermind. The children think they are funny. Father's Day gift pictured below.
Is this real or just an empty threat? A last second bluff?
I think it's probably a bluff. Or maybe it's a half-bluff: Maybe they have built a nuclear weapon but have never tested it and have no idea if it will work or not. And they're threatening to test it tonight on their enemies.
Bonchie:
When a nation led by Islamist lunatics says they are going to launch a nuke, that's not something you can just write off as rhetoric. No doubt, Israeli and American forces are on high alert, and all possible countermeasures are ready to be used.
This does seem to put to bed the idea claimed by isolationists that the entire case against Iran is manufactured and that they had no intention of developing a nuclear weapon. As the vice president, who is the furthest thing from a warhawk, explained on Tuesday, the intelligence they've seen is clear, and even if it weren't, there is no other reasonable explanation for the levels of enrichment Iran has sought and achieved.
I do not understand the near-religious commitment of the Neopaulites to the idea that Iran just wants to be left alone and if we just leave them alone they'll leave us alone. They've been directing terrorist attacks against us for 46 years, and have repeatedly vowed to destroy "The Great Satan."
They also believe that the 12th Mahdi will only arise after Iran proves itself worthy be defeating the West.
Let's pray it doesn't come to that.
My guess is that this is an 11th hour bluff from a regime that is falling and desperately needs the US to retrain Israel to save it.
But I'm nowhere near certain of that. They might be planning on packing all of their enriched uranium into warheads and hitting Israel and US bases with highly radioactive dirty bombs.
JD Vance is positioning himself as a Neopaulite, against military action in nearly all if not all circumstances, but he's weighed in: Iran has no plausible reason for enriching uranium to nuclear-bomb-grade except for producing a nuclear bomb.
JD Vance
@JDVance
Look, I'm seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there's a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue:
First, POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Over the last few months, he encouraged his foreign policy team to reach a deal with the Iranians to accomplish this goal. The president has made clear that Iran cannot have uranium enrichment. And he said repeatedly that this would happen one of two ways--the easy way or the "other" way.
Second, I've seen a lot of confusion over the issue of "civilian nuclear power" and "uranium enrichment." These are distinct issues. Iran could have civilian nuclear power without enrichment, but Iran rejected that. Meanwhile, they've enriched uranium far above the level necessary for any civilian purpose. They've been found in violation of their non-proliferation obligations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is hardly a rightwing organization.
It's one thing to want civilian nuclear energy. It's another thing to demand sophisticated enrichment capacity. And it's still another to cling to enrichment while simultaneously violating basic non-proliferation obligations and enriching right to the point of weapons-grade uranium.
I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use. I've yet to see a single good argument for why Iran was justified in violating its non-proliferation obligations. I've yet to see a single good pushback against the IAEA's findings.
Meanwhile, the president has shown remarkable restraint in keeping our military's focus on protecting our troops and protecting our citizens.
He may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment. That decision ultimately belongs to the president. And of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.
But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue. And having seen this up close and personal, I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people's goals. Whatever he does, that is his focus.
Naturally occurring uranium comes in a lot of different atomic weights. Some of these isotopes are not suitable for a bomb. Only a couple can be used in a bomb. "Enrichment" consists of increasing the fraction of the highly unstable isotopes in uranium so that it can be detonated in a nuclear explosion. Power-producing reactors do not need uranium to be so high in heavy unstable isotopes. Only bombs do.
Iran is lying when they claim they just want to enrich uranium up to bomb-grade just to power their reactors. Reactors do not require enriched uranium. Only bombs do.
Border Patrol agents didn't release a single migrant into the US last month -- a staggering drop after the Biden administration allowed 64,000 illegal crossers in the country in May 2024, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Agents caught 8,725 migrants crossing illegally at the southern border last month.
That's a 93% decrease from May 2024, when 117,905 were nabbed, according to internal data obtained by The Post.
And acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Pete Flores said it's a result of the Trump administration's tough border policies.
One of the most monumental policy changes made by Trump was the reversal of President Joe Biden's catch-and-release scheme, which resulted in millions of illegal border jumpers being allowed into the US.
"Under the leadership of this administration, CBP has received historic support resulting in another 93% decrease in illegal crossings along the southwest border this month when compared with last year," Flores said in a statement shared with The Post.
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Border Patrol agents are nearing their goal of gaining full "operational control" of the southern border with the massive drop in illegal crossings, National Border Patrol Council president Paul Perez told The Post last week.
Perez complained that Biden had taken Border Patrol officers off the border, to have them sit at desks and fill out the paperwork for illegal aliens to get their free pass into America.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
ZERO releases of illegal aliens into the US during the month of May by Border Patrol.
Why does this matter? I am not aware of a single illegal alien being arrested for an egregious crime against an American after being caught & released at the border under the new Trump admin in the last 5 months.
Catch and release is over. A complete 180 from what we saw at the border during the Biden admin.
US Attorney Bill Essayli tells insurrectionits, "You spit, we hit."
Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
.@USAttyEssayli details charges against LA rioters, over attempted arson of a police vehicle and assaulting a federal agent:
"As our president said, if you spit, we hit -- and we will hit you with a felony."
He also said that the illegal alien terrorist who threw chunks of concrete down at cops from an overpass will face a minimum of five years in prison, and a maximum of 20.
Hundreds of immigration charges were filed in the Southern District of Texas, including against a woman assaulting and threatening federal agents.
In one week, 332 people were charged; 205 people were charged with illegal entry; 109 with felony illegal reentry after previously being deported. Most arrested have prior felony convictions and charges; 10 cases involve human smuggling.
Among those arrested was Mexican national Maria Isabel Cruz-Salas, living in the border town of San Benito in the Rio Grande Valley. While authorities conducted a worksite enforcement operation at Taqueria El Mante, an ICE Homeland Security Investigations agent attempted to detain her and she kicked him in the face, according to the charges. If convicted, she faces up to eight years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine.
In another case, a San Antonio woman, Michelle Lee Varela, was taken into custody after allegedly threatening an ICE-HSI agent while performing his duties. According to the charges, while authorities were conducting an immigration action and requested information from Varela about her husband's status in the U.S., she "allegedly used profanity and said if her husband was taken into custody, she would shoot them."
Wonderful.
And Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced a "You break it, you bought it" policy: No DOT funds for any state that doesn't cooperate with ICE, and no funds for repairing federal highways that lawless anarchist state governors allow their antifa street militias to destroy.
The @USDOT will NOT fund rogue state actors who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
And to cities that stand by while rioters destroy transportation infrastructure dont expect a red cent from DOT, either. Follow the law, or forfeit the funding. https://t.co/cCRi4ALT23
🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Sean Duffy says sanctuary states will not get ONE RED CENT from the federal government to repair infrastructure damage caused by rioters
This comes after rioters were seen destroying roadways and using the concrete to throw at officers
We seem to have reached the point in our politics where the ticket to stardom in one of our parties is to interfere with federal agents executing immigration warrants and to get arrested while doing so. Is there majority support for this?
I know what some of you are thinking: Hollywood may be so devoid of ideas that they're remaking every movie from the 80s and nineties, but there's no way they're now remaking "classics" from the early 2000s, and even if they are, they certainly won't be remaking I Know What You Did Last Summer, for the love of everything holy.
Well, guess what? You're wrong again. You're a black belt in Being Wrong About Everything.
I don't get this. Yes, I liked Alien and I loved Aliens. But seriously, it's a limited concept. You can't just keep making movies and tv-shows and prequels about the same limited concept.
Or I guess you can. But I don't get it. I have no further questions about the Terminator, Alien, or Predator universes. Or the Robocop universe. I have enjoyed their early entries. I've loved many of them. But we need to move on. There is no more juice in these well-squeezed fruits.
Great, Mr. Fabulous, the self-described "fifty-year-old Bougie Bitch" Pedro Pascal, is in yet another movie. It's about a brave and noble sheriff fighting disinformation and disobedience as he attempts to enforce covid lockdowns. There's a moment of someone watching a podcast on the internet, so you know that's about Dangerous and Divisive Medical Misinformation. The end of the clip shows someone firing a heavy machine gun so that's gotta be Radicalized Far-Right Extremists Incited Into Violence.
Now, I'm making a lot of assumptions. It could be that the movie is a more thoughtful look at the covid wars.
It's being dropped with three episodes on one night so that the show is finished and forgotten as soon as possible. They did something similar with Echo, though in that case they dropped all five episodes in one night. Like one of those poops where everything goes in one smooth uninterrupted motion and you can't even believe how efficient and accomplished you are at pooping.
The Superman movie continues to look over-stuffed with characters and plots but it also looks like it might be light and fun, like a comic book for kids.
Which is A-OK with me.
Let me get this off my chest:
I'm sick and tired of NERDS!!! demanding that superhero movies or any other juvenile fare be "dark" and "grim and gritty" and "realistic" and hyperviolent and filled with cursing.
This type of entertainment is -- or used to be, and should be -- kid-friendly.
I think a lot of NERDS!!! are a little embarrassed that they like entertainment which is made for kids or made to at least be kid-friendly because that would suggest they're immature. So they want these entertainments to be made more "adult," but by "adult," of course they don't mean thoughtful, contemplative, and nuanced. No, they mean they want to see Superman rip people's heads from their bodies and use his laser vision to shoot holes through people's chests.
And that he should say "f*ck" a lot.
I have to admit that when I was younger -- like, teens and early twenties -- I had the same kind of idea. That this kind of movie would be Even Betterer if it were "hardcore."
But as I've gotten older, and have approached, with increasing slowness, age 29, I've come to understand that I don't have to run away from my kid-self, or my teenaged self. My kid-self was right about a lot of things, and my teenaged self was too.
I don't need these kind of kid-friendly entertainments to be "aged up" just to validate me, so I don't feel like a stupid baby for going to see a Batman movie. It's perfectly fine for an adult to enjoy an entertainment whose primary audience is younger people and kids. Every adult, even one approaching age 29, still has his 5-year old self inside him, and his 13-year-old self, and his 18-year-old self.
Plus, a lot of children's entertainment can be pretty good. Disney cartoons from a bygone age often portrayed death in powerful and even traumatic way. Certainly Bambi portrays death much more realistically -- in that it has consequences -- than popcorn movies for "adults" that feature hundreds of people being killed with no one ever wondering if the dead enemies' wives and children will be looked after.
Kid-friendly entertainment doesn't have to be childish, either. The original Superman was kid-friendly, but it was very well done. The original Star Wars films as well. (Bit of trivia: They filmed the severed arm in the cantina sequence for the sole purpose of getting a PG rating rather than the G rating they would have gotten without it -- they felt that teenagers would not see a G-rated film because teenagers are always afraid to be mistaken for kids or little babies.)
The Indian Jones films are all basically kid-friendly, except for that one part in every Indiana Jones movie where someone gets his head chopped up by a propeller or something. Okay, maybe not for kids exactly, but a dad can watch that with his 12-year-old.
"Kid-friendly" doesn't mean "childish." You can avoid all the things that flag a movie as R-rated while also avoiding the stuff that makes a movie seem childish -- cornball kid humor, simple-minded plots, cartoony "bouncy" background music, unrealistic characters, etc. You can make a movie that avoids the tropes of actual child fare and presents semi-plausible characters with semi-realistic adult psychologies.
What Hollywood is doing is making very, very dumb movies with child-levels of nuance but throwing in R-rated violence to age it up.
I don't know if Superman will be any good. I kind of doubt it. I don't think I'll wind up seeing it.
But I do like the idea of making superhero movies and fantasy action movies with a younger audience in mind. I have fond memories of watching James Bond movies with my dad. Fathers need movies they can share with their kids. It can't all be about reassuring 25-year-old NERDS!!! that they're totally not babies because look, Superman just snapped this guy's neck. So hardcore!
(I think James Bond books are basically boy's adventure fiction too, except the boy in question "borrowed" his dad's credit card to subscribe to Playboy.)
I just don't get the idea that these Male Power Fantasy movies have to be "dark" and "mature." Having a Space Alien Cop snap the neck of a Space Alien Bad Guy isn't "mature." It's still children's entertainment with a veneer of graphic violence to seem mature.
And don't get me wrong-- I like graphic violence, too. But I don't think Batman movies should look like the last twenty minutes of Rambo. That kind of movie should be reserved for 17 year olds, or 15 year olds who borrow their older brother's ID.
Democrat NYC Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate Arrested for Attempting to Physically Block ICE from Arresting a Criminal Illegal Update: Poll Shows Massive Support for ICE
—Ace
The Democrats are claiming this was a Mostly Peaceful Violent Obstruction of Federal Officials.
New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court Tuesday after he linked arms with a person that authorities were attempting to detain.
A reporter with The Associated Press witnessed Lander's arrest at a federal building in Manhattan. The person Lander was walking out of the courtroom was also arrested.
Lander had spent the morning observing immigration court hearings and told an AP reporter that he was there to "accompany" some immigrants out of the building.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)
In the moments before Lander was handcuffed, agents could be seen trying to physically separate him from the man they had come to detain. Lander briefly struggled to stay close to the detainee before he was pulled away. Video taken by journalists at the scene shows that agents struggled to separate Lander from the man he'd linked arms with for more than 40 seconds before wresting the two apart.
A video of the arrest captured by an AP reporter shows an agent telling Lander, "You're obstructing."
"I'm not obstructing, I'm standing right here in the hallway," Lander said as he was being handcuffed.
POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Democrats are becoming more and more violent with federal officers. NYC Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested Tuesday by ICE agents while attempting to smuggle an illegal alien out of immigration court. He claimed that ICE pic.twitter.com/QZX7DgJ1c3
And they want the Democrat-Media Party's Mostly Peaceful Violent Street Paramilitaries prosecuted.
A new national survey reveals the widespread appeal of President Trump's law-and-order approach to immigration enforcement.
Americans reject street violence and insist that only legal, vetted migration be permitted into our homeland.
Perhaps most tellingly, Americans overwhelmingly believe that those who use violence and interfere with law enforcement deportation operations must face criminal charges.
When asked specifically about this kind of violence in Los Angeles recently, 68% said the violators must be prosecuted. Only 21% deem such charges as "not important." Among men, 74% believe in criminal consequences, and only 18% disagree. In addition, nearly two-thirds of Hispanics (64%) demand these prosecutions.
Importantly, this poll began last Monday, June 9, just after the weekend of violence and mayhem in Los Angeles. The public feud between President Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California was ongoing during the polling period of June 9-11, making this survey an especially useful barometer of public sentiment during this tension.
But apparently when Trump said this over and over and over again, the hyper-isolationists all heard him saying, "I promise I will pursue Barack Obama's Iran policy and help Iran get a nuclear bomb. And also, again like Barack Obama, when Iran's regime is fatally threatened, I will step in to save it."
He ever said these things. You made them up. You wanted him to say them, but he never, ever did.
You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. You cannot let it happen because bad things will happen if that happens. (6/24/23) pic.twitter.com/BFVxfxBWQh
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 17, 2025
Dont let Iran have nuclear weapons. Thats my only thing I have to tell you today. Dont let them have it. (10/16/23) pic.twitter.com/0vvA6gKkAE
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 17, 2025
No nuclear weapons. You cant have nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are the single greatest threat to this world. (11/9/23) pic.twitter.com/sZq7Ql04jT
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 17, 2025
And more at the link.
The hyper-isolationists are threatening that Trump doing the things Trump has repeatedly promised to do would "fracture the base." This is their threat that they'll abandon and oppose Trump.
Yet they don't consider that Trump doing what they demand and using our military and economic power to harm Israel to aid Iran would also fracture the base.
I didn't vote for your fucking queerbait RoN pAuL!!!-cum-Medea-Benjamin gaywad peacenik foreign policy. Trump, as I already wrote, has always said that he thinks the Deep State's ambition to be at war at all times in all countries is insane and that he would stop that, and that he wants to be known for ending wars rather than starting them.
But he's also made it clear, as he did when he used missile attacks to all but wipe out ISIS and also assassinate Iran's top terror commander, that enemy countries which do not accept his open hand will feel his closed fist.
He also has repeatedly stated that he completely supports Israel. I know the Tucker Carlson circle thinks that Israel is The Real Terrorist Enemy and now is literally calling for the US to attack Tel Aviv -- Darryl Cooper, the man Tucker Carlson praised and glazed as "the most important popular historian [i.e., 'Twitter crank'] writing today" expressly called for the US Air Force to bomb Tel Aviv.*
That's not Trump's policy. He promised to support Israel, and to stop Iran from getting the bomb.
That is what he said, that is what he promised, and that is what we voted for.
It's also what the hyper-isolationists voted for -- because this was always Trump's position. Trump is not Tucker Carlson or Steve Bannon. If you want their noxious leadership, then encourage them to run and vote for them.
But this is what was promised, and this is what you voted for.
* Whoops, I typoed here, saying Cooper called for the Air Force to bomb "Teheran."
I meant he called for the USAF to bomb Tel Aviv.
Sorry, big mistake. Obviously the exact opposite of what I intended to say.
FBI Finally Delivers Documents to Congress Alleging a Plot by the Chinese Communist Party to Give Fake IDs to Illegal Aliens to Vote Against Trump in 2020
—Ace
FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.
I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the Chairman Grassley for further review.
But crucially: Wray claimed that he knew of no plots to interfere with the 2020 election and did not provide these documents to Congress despite Chuck Grassley demanding them.
FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday evening turned over to Congress an intelligence report raising concerns that China had mass-produced fake U.S. driver's licenses to carry out a scheme to hijack the 2020 election with fake mail-in ballots for Democrat Joe Biden.
The newly declassified intelligence reports from August 2020 weren't corroborated or fully investigated and instead were recalled from intelligence agencies at about the time that then-FBI Director Chris Wray testified there were no known plots of foreign interference ahead of the 2020 election in which Biden defeated Donald Trump, officials told Just the News.
The new documents were turned over to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who had first raised concerns to the bureau that the intelligence hadn't been fully vetted, and instead was just dismissed even though there was evidence of the fake licenses.
"Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of Chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency at the people's Bureau," Patel told Just the News in a statement. "To that end, we have located documents Chairman Grassley requested, which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election.
"Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver's licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots -- allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public," Patel also said.
So Patel says the allegations are also "substantiated." I take this to mean there is some evidence to support them, but not enough to definitely prove them. (Or else he'd use the word "prove.")
And Wray decided that he would once again weaponize the FBI to work as the Armed Division of the DNC and so he lied and obstructed Congress from seeing these documents, despite Congress' oversight role over the FBI, and despite Congress' right to see documents to assist it in making legislation.
Trump: "I'm In No Mood to Negotiate," Says He's Not Looking for a Ceasefire with Iran, But Rather "an End"
—Ace
"An end" to the problem of Iran's nuclear program and, perhaps, an end to Iran's 70 year war on America. Not "an end" to Iran itself. (Though he does seem to now favor regime change.)
It sure sounds like he wants Israel to finish the job and take this to an actual end, not just a resumption of the status quo under some "deal." Trump went so far as to say that Iran "giving up entirely" is the goal and that "I'm not too much in the mood to negotiate."
He also reiterated that Iran was "very close" to having a nuclear weapon before the strikes, and vowed again that Iran would not be permitted to have one.
That last quote also included this line when asked about DNI Tulsi Gabbard's assertion in March that Iran had no nuclear weapons program.
TRUMP: I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having them.
I'd consider that a shot across the bow to those in his administration who have sought to undermine him and push their own foreign policy goals in relation to Iran.
Update: CBD says that Tulsi's quote is being used by the oppressively propagandistic Regime media out-of-context to stir up trouble.
Update: The quote was that Iran isn't currently building a nuke, not that they weren't working hard to build a nuke. Fox News war-whore Jennifer Griffin is misquoting her to push her Democrat/Deep State agenda, as usual. Tulsi has clarified that she and Trump are on the same page with regard to Iran's nuke program.
Sarah Ferris
@sarahnferris
DNI Gabbard tells us she and Trump are "on the same page" when it comes to Iran nuclear timeline
"Pres Trump was saying the same thing that I said in my annual threat assessment back in March. Unfortunately too many people in the media don't care to actually read what I said"
.@POTUS: "Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple you don't have to go to too deep into it. They just can't have a nuclear weapon." pic.twitter.com/LBgK3DIluq
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 17, 2025
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 17, 2025
Trump noticed that Tucker Carlson has gotten far too big for his little britches and checked him.
Tucker Carlson is now saying that Trump's presidency will end early -- due to his failure to obey the dictates of lifetime babbler and non-productive-worker Tucker Carlson -- and Trump called him "kooky" in response.
Trump also pulled out the Big Guns: He implied Tucker Carlson was irrelevant because he doesn't have a network show. That insult is behind-the-times given that no one cares about a network's imprimature any longer, but it does show the level of Trump's annoyance.
When Trump starts talking about your ratings, he's done with you.
President Trump responds to Tucker Carlsons comments that he is complicit in the war.
Trump: "I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen." pic.twitter.com/l5rXVSYVfY
As I've said before: Trump has never signed on to the hyper-isolationist's platform. Yes, Trump says he wants peace and wants to be known for making more peace for war. But there is a caveat to that the hyper-isolationists continually refuse to acknowledge: He also talks in a Jacksonian way. He says he wants peace, but always also indicates he will "blow you to hell" if you mess with America.
Trump said he would re-orient America's foreign and military policy to put America's interest first -- not that he would never take a military action against an enemy.
And not that he would affirmatively work to undermine an ally just because Tucker Carlson and some others on the paleo-right have decided that Jews Control the World and it's time to go to war with them.
Again, the hyper-isolationists refuse to acknowledge that and then claim that Trump is betraying them.
No, you're betraying him. He never once signed on to your Code Pink/ANSWER foreign policy agenda. You completely hallucinated that, and then you use your hallucination to claim that Trump is going back on the promise he made you.
Fordow, the underground facility where most of Iran's centrifuges are hidden is the key to destroying their nuclear weapons program. It is under a mountain, supposedly 300 feet deep, and therefore very, very difficult to destroy with conventional bombs. Israel has the GBU-28, which is a 5,000 pound "bunker buster," but it is thought to be too small to do enough damage to Fordow. Israel does not have the largest bomb in the American inventory, the GBU-57, which is a 30,000 pound "Massive Ordnance Penetrator." And even if it did, it does not have the heavy bombers to deliver it.
At Iran's underground Fordow enrichment plant, the country's second uranium enrichment facility, the IAEA observed "no damage" following the attacks, Grossi said.
Israel's military is innovative, and could probably use a military cargo plane to deliver the GBU-57, although it would be a much easier operation if the United States simply used its own B-2s to destroy Fordow. But hopefully that is not going to happen. Yes, it would be the quickest and safest way to deal with the Mad Mullah's and their apocalyptic insanity, but in the short term this is Israel's problem, and Israel should deal with it.
The image of tiny Israel dealing such damage to both the infrastructure and the political and military leadership of Iran is a powerful message to Islam, and overt American involvement would decrease the strength of that message. Should the United States sell to Israel the ordnance needed to destroy their nuclear facilities? Absolutely. Should America drop those bombs ourselves? Absolutely not!
However, the long term is a very different thing, and if the theocracy survives this war, they will undoubtedly resume their drive for nuclear weapons with which to destroy Israel...and America. Yup, that is their stated goal, and they have spent their 45 years in power doing everything they could to achieve that goal.
In addition to their nuclear ambitions, Iran ramped up production of conventional ballistic missiles, with the ultimate goal of being able to overwhelm Israel's missile defense systems. The twin threat of perhaps thousands of missiles being launched, with a few nuclear-tipped missiles in the mix is untenable. That is why Israel acted now, because they are Iran's first target. But there is no reason to assume that those missiles wouldn't be used against the Saudis or the Egyptians or the French. And who knows whether the Iranians are planning ICBMs that can reach the eastern seaboard of America!
It is irrational for the West to humor Iran and ignore its clearly stated goals. Luckily we have President Trump, who takes them at their word! Imagine a world without his leadership and clarity of purpose. A Kamala Harris administration would be dithering and muddying and pressing Israel to withdraw from Gaza, and would have restarted the catastrophic nuclear agreement with Iran that Obama signed. The United Nations would be busily pumping out resolutions calling for Israel's destruction, and Iran's proxies would be emboldened.
Instead we have the Trump administration's masterful command of the Iran negotiations that clearly fooled the Mullahs into believing that their usual delaying tactics and obfuscation would continue to work.
Whoops! Whoopsie!
And rumor has it that they are contacting both Israel and the United States to end the war and return to the negotiating table. But nothing will have changed if that occurs, and it would be naive in the extreme for Israel or America to accede to their request.
Of course it is entirely possible that the Israeli decapitation of Iranian leadership will embolden the Iranian people to continue that work and overthrow the Mullahs. What comes after that is anybody's guess, and the odds of exchanging one group of madmen for another are not long. But Iran was (mostly) free before, and maybe they can be free again!
Good morning kids. Well, the beat goes on with wars, and rumors of wars. Both abroad and even here at home as Israel continues its campaign to degrade if not completely destroy Iran's nuclear weapons infrastructure and as is now apparent, take down the regime itself.
Incredibly and miraculously, The Israeli air force and special forces have evidently been so successful that the regime supposedly is now crying uncle and is ready to negotiate some sort of settlement in order to stop Israel from taking them down. They want to reman in power both for the sake of remaining in power and staying away from the blast radius of an Israeli bomb or from dangling by the neck from a lamppost courtesy of a long abused and oppressed citizenry. And lest we forget, that Iran is ruled by hardcore Muslims whose goal is the eradication of every Jew and un believer on the planet and the latter's complete transformation as planet Islam. So as history has shown us time and again, and as the Arabic word and concept Taqqiya tells us, they are not to be taken at their word. They will do whatever they can in order to regroup for the next assault on Dar al Harb to bring it by force into Dar al Islam.
Whether Trump sees this or not, he has signaled that the G-7 proposal to allow monitoring of Iran's nuclear program instead of calling for its dismantling is a total non-starter, as it should be.
President Trump has stated unequivocally that Iran cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons so that raises the question and red flag of how he intends to prevent that from happening. He is of course right but as I, being an ardent supporter of Israel and America, feel strongly that our direct involvement of troops on the ground and/or the deployment of the Air Force would be a disaster.
While Israel has done an amazingly effective job, so far as we can tell, places like the Fordow facility are deep underground beneath a mountain, and the only way to take those out is with heavy ordnance delivered by heavy bombers or missiles capable of delivering a payload that can collapse steel reinforced concrete and stone maybe a half-mile thick. Well, that or deploying tens of thousands of troops to storm the facilities with a direct frontal assault.
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to declare that Iran “cannot have a nuclear weapon” and that people should evacuate Tehran. . . “Reports of Iran’s eagerness to end the fight came as Israeli fighters attacked regime institutions in the capital city of Tehran, including the state broadcaster, after achieving total dominance of Iranian airspace,” it added.
Israel hit an Iranian regime-controlled television network on Monday, another example of the Jewish state's broadening of its campaign against the Islamic Republic
Israeli warplanes struck Iran’s state-controlled broadcaster on Monday, causing an explosion that scattered debris live on television and forced an anchor to hurriedly flee offscreen.
If only a bomb drifted off course by a measly 10,000 miles or so and hit MSNBC as Banjo Boy Scarborough and his concubine Mitzi Baryshnikov were doing their daily polishing of Al Sharpton's sewer lid medallion. Oh well, just a thought.
Jihadi gunmen murdered at least a hundred Christians in the Nigerian village of Yelewata, central Nigeria, on Friday night, the latest in a long string of bloody attacks on farmers by the violent Fulani herdsmen. . . “Many people are still missing, aside dozens injured and left without adequate medical care. Many families were locked up and burnt inside their bedrooms. So many bodies were burnt beyond recognition,” AI Nigeria wrote.
It's not necessarily about Iran and nuclear weapons. or about Israel and Jews. It's about Islam and what it has wrought all over the world for the past 1500 years or so. To think you can negotiate with that, or that they want the same things we do; peace, security and a future for their children. Remember that these are the same people who have children for the express purpose of turning them into guided bombs, draped in C-4/Semtex laden belts and vests ready to detonate themselves on buses, inside pizzerias and fly airplanes into skyscrapers, as their ticket to paradise.
60 years after the two Columbia professors outlined their plan to turn America into Cuba or the Soviet Union? They published their manifesto in the leftist publication, The Nation, in 1966, which I will summarize.
Cloward-Piven’s objective is chaos and turmoil, or in their words, “A massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls.” This is followed by: “A federal program of income redistribution has become necessary to elevate the poor en masse from poverty.”
Is there a better recap of COVID, including lockdowns, closed businesses, schools, and churches, which required the ruling class to spend trillions of dollars they didn’t have to rectify the damage and destruction unleashed by the same ruling class that then tried to correct it?
In Cloward-Piven terms, a crisis is: “A publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere.” How do they create such a crisis? “Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention.”
Last week, Los Angeles became the epicenter of the Summer of Cloward-Piven. Protests escalated into riots, causing property damage and assaults on law enforcement. These events were hardly spontaneous. Pallets of bricks arrived at strategic locations. Posters had been printed and were ready for use. Shock troops were mobilized, often through help wanted ads on Craigslist, generously paying “peaceful protesters” to burn cars and smash windows.
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It remains to be seen what will happen in this case. Local media naturally ignored the fact that the woman was part of a mob attacking the vehicle. In Florida, the driver would be protected by law for engaging in self-defense. “If you’re driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety,” Florida Gov. DeSantis said last week during an interview. “So if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.”
Los Angeles Rioters Attack Car, Driver Runs Them Over
(What could possibly go WONG-jjs) The research was conducted at the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence (CEBSIT) within the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This group answers directly to and is controlled by the Communist Party-run State Council of China.
CCP-Run Lab Launches First Neural Device to Control Computers With Your Brain.
Daniel Greenfield: Newsom is a 2028 front-runner. All he had to do was set parts of L.A. on fire. Newsom’s Riots
In case you missed it: Trump’s ability to deploy the California National Guard is currently working its way through the courts. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that Trump’s order to deploy the Guard was illegal, claiming it exceeded Trump’s statutory authority. Breyer ordered the command of the Guard to return control to California, but his order did not extend to the U.S. Marines because they were not out on the streets yet. Trump’s Warning To California Officials Should Terrify Violent Rioters
The migrant riots were about causing chaos, not about advocating for illegal aliens. The Summer of Cloward-Piven
While rioters in L.A. injure police officers, throw rocks, burn squad cars, and loot businesses, the left-wing media continue to assure the American people that this is “not a ‘real riot.’” They say foreign nationals flying their flag in American streets are just proud of their heritage. If the polls are any indication, the American people are not listening. NBC Poll: Majority Of Voters Support Trump On Immigration, More Than Before LA Riots
Reports of Iran’s eagerness to end the fight came as Israeli fighters attacked regime institutions in the capital city of Tehran, including the state broadcaster, after achieving total dominance of Iranian airspace. Iran Cries Uncle: Wants to End Israeli Attacks, Negotiate with Trump
. . . the president also rejected “the G7’s proposed statement on Iran because it called for monitoring of Iran’s nuclear activities, rather than an outright halt to Iran’s program of nuclear enrichment”: The Trump administration has been demanding that Iran halt all uranium enrichment, since enrichment past a certain level has no purpose other than developing the unique isotope necessary for nuclear weapons. Iran has refused to agree, leading to the impasse in nuclear talks — and leading Israel to attack Iran last Friday rather than face the prospect of an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon. Trump: ‘Everyone Should Immediately Evacuate Tehran’
Israeli warplanes struck Iran’s state-controlled broadcaster on Monday, causing an explosion that scattered debris live on television and forced an anchor to hurriedly flee offscreen. (NOW do Joe Scarborough and his Concubine Mitzi Baryshnikov as they rap with Sharpton! - jjs) WATCH: Iran’s State-Run TV Station Goes Up in Smoke
Netanyahu shot down the peace talks amid reports that Iran was interested in renewing negotiations as the Israeli Air Force continues its devastating bombardment of Tehran’s nuclear sites, military targets and key leadership figures. Iran reportedly said it would only come to the table if the U.S. did not get involved in the war offensively, sources told the WSJ Monday. Israel Not Interested In Peace Talks With Iran, Netanyahu Says
The decision comes as hostilities escalate between Israel and Iran, with Israeli strikes on Iranian targets and Iranian counterstrikes. Trump told the media on Sunday, June 15, that while the U.S. is not currently involved militarily, he has not ruled out intervention. “We’re not involved in it. It’s possible we could get involved,” Trump said. Trump Declines to Sign G7 Statement on Israel-Iran Deescalation, Weighs U.S. Intervention.
Dem senator also tells Free Beacon he'd like the US to 'join Israel to fully destroy Iran's nuclear facilities' (Love ya Lumpy, but even I think we ought not get involved directly in this - jjs) Fetterman Urges Israel To Take Out the Ayatollah: 'No Mercy'
As war drums beat louder, a majority of Americans still want what made the nation great—peace, industry, and sovereignty—despite globalist efforts to silence that vision. The United States, Israel, and Iran
Footage over the weekend showed activists wearing keffiyehs — the checkered calling-card of the pro-Palestinian cause — clashing with fed-up Egyptian locals, some of whom could be seen hurling clubs and water bottles at the hapless protesters. Frustrated Egyptians, some little more than children, could be seen pulling the activists off the road as they staged a sit-down at the checkpoint. March for Gaza descends into farce as fed-up Egyptians clash with woke mob of activists
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
. . .in the second of the failed shooting attempts, an actual local law enforcement official now believes they encountered Boelter sitting outside the lawmaker’s residence in an SUV. The officer says they approached the vehicle and a man in a police uniform sitting inside, and assumed the individual was dispatched to provide a protective detail. However, when the officer tried to verbally address the individual, the man in the SUV continued staring straight ahead. After the initial encounter, the law enforcement officer says they proceeded to check on the home, knocking on the front door and receiving no response. Upon confirming that the house was unoccupied, the officer realized the SUV and the man—now believed to be Boelter—had departed. Walz-Linked Shooter Targeted 2 Other Homes. Here’s What We Know.
This alarm isn't just coming from the political left. It's emerging from inside the MAGA base itself, where many now see the Palantir partnership as a betrayal of Trump's earlier promises to dismantle the so-called "deep state." Federal data consolidation poses a risk to all Americans
Twisted momzer Raskin said, “There’s the $400 million bribe force, one jet from Qatar, completely brazen, totally in violation of the Constitution if you don’t come to Congress first. There’s also the fact that Donald Trump, who denounced crypto as just saturated with criminality, now has completely embraced it and created his own crypto meme coin, which is just this gaping open barn door for every anonymous foreign state dictator, king, prince, mafia ring or pardon seeker to put money directly into Donald Trump’s pockets. And so, you know, whatever kind of varnish they had from the first administration is completely off.” (Fuck cancer, but in this case, I feel bad for the cancer that has to endure being in his rotting carcass - jjs) Raskin: We’re Living in a ‘Gangster State,’ a ‘Corrupt, Monarchical’ System
A thousand miles away from Silicon Valley, Montana lawmakers have striven to strike a balance between protecting residents from the risks of emerging technologies and encouraging tech innovators. Montana: The American Frontier of Tech Policy
“Many people are still missing, aside dozens injured and left without adequate medical care. Many families were locked up and burnt inside their bedrooms. So many bodies were burnt beyond recognition,” AI Nigeria wrote. (This is why Iran must not have nukes, and why Islam must ultimately be eradicated from the face of the earth - jjs) Jihadi Gunmen Slaughter over 100 Christians in Nigeria
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
As part of the elaborate scheme, Walter Barnes, owner of Vistant, and Darryl Britt, owner of Apprio, used Paul Young, the president of a subcontractor used by both Vistant and Apprio, as a middleman to conceal some of the bribes destined for Watson, according to the Justice Department.” But you won’t find coverage of it on the dinosaur television networks. A phenomenon that MRCTV and others noticed. Leftist Media Weep Over Potential USAID Cuts - Avoid Covering Bribery Case of USAID Official
Human Excrement Scott Weiner - “We’re seeing the rise of secret police — masked, no identifying info, even wearing army fatigues — grabbing & disappearing people. It’s antithetical to democracy & harms communities. The No Secret Police Act can help end the fear & chaos this behavior creates in communities,” he added. California State Senator Proposes Ban on Law Enforcement Wearing Masks: ‘No Secret Police’
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has defended the CDC’s changes, emphasizing the importance of medical autonomy and informed consent. “Americans deserve to make health decisions based on their individual circumstances—not under pressure from politicized institutions or rigid, one-size-fits-all mandates,” an HHS spokesman said. Democrat States Defy RFK, Continue Pushing Covid Vax on Children, Pregnant Women.
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
This wasn’t just foreign meddling—it was industrial-scale fraud, enabled by a broken mail-in voting system the Democrats have long been exploiting. The report confirms what many of us suspected all along: the integrity of the 2020 election wasn’t just compromised—it was hijacked. Kash Patel Drops 2020 Election Interference Evidence Bombshell
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The Rogers campaign announced a statewide leadership team of more than 100 campaign co-chairs in counties across the state Monday, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The appointment of campaign ambassadors in regions across Michigan comes as the former congressman is working to fend off a potential primary challenge and is already making a general election play by mobilizing support across the state. EXCLUSIVE: Mike Rogers Moves To Consolidate Support As Potential Opponent Mulls Primary Challenge
The summit formally began on Sunday, though the major meetings and discussion are expected to begin on Monday, and is expected to run through Tuesday. The G7 is an organization bringing together seven of the world’s largest economies – America, Britain, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, and host Canada – to primarily discuss trade and diplomacy. G7 Summit in Canada Begins in Shadow of Iran, Ukraine Wars
“This now implements on car tariffs and aerospace, a really important agreement, and so, this is a very good day for both of our countries,” said Starmer, adding, “Thank you again, Donald.”Trump, who is half-British through his late mother, was similarly positive, calling the British “great people.” Trump, Starmer Sign UK-US Trade Deal at G7.
As companies abandon Pride Month sponsorships and federal DEI programs get bulldozed under President Trump’s return, the era of performative corporate virtue-signaling is collapsing in real time. Juneteenth Celebrations Cut as DEI Funding Collapses
Not counting the PCIe 5.0 connection from the CPU to the chipset.
The CPU provides the same number of I/O lanes - at the same speed - as AMD's current chips. But the chipset does a lot better than AMD, providing 24 total PCIe 5.0 and 4.0 lanes, against AMD's 870E which uses two chips to provide just 12 PCIe 4.0 lanes.
Except for simple things like type-ahead, which has gotten a lot better.
An AI tool can only resemble an intern with anterograde amnesia, which would be a bad kind of intern to have. For every new task this "AI intern" resets back to square one without having learned a thing!
That's good, by the way. Means 60% of chips fabricated are good enough to use, before harvesting half-good dies for lower-end parts. AMD's 8 core and 6 core parts are identical, but the cheaper 6 core chips allow them to re-use 8 core chips with one or two production flaws.
Educational Interlude
Musical Interlude
Song is Sharada by Skye Sweetnam. Anime is of course The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Disclaimer: If you leave a DVD in your player long enough, it will turn into a random volume of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Established fact.
Monday Overnight Open Thread - June 16, 2025 [Doof]
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A 35-year-old American man has been found guilty of impersonating a flight attendant at least 120 times in order to avoid having to pay for plane tickets.
Federal prosecutors accused Tirone Alexander of entering the secure area of an airport under false pretenses and committing wire fraud at least 120 times between 2018 and 2024. The 35-year-old man reportedly took advantage of a common airline policy that allows flight attendants and pilots from other airlines to fly for free. Alexander, who allegedly had worked as a flight attendant for regional airlines between 2013 and 2015, would go to various airline websites and check the “flight attendant” option during the online check-in process. The form required applicants to provide their employer, date of hire, and badge number, and Alexander used falsified information that apparently no one bothered to check.
What began as a lively family birthday celebration at Mama Mia's in Carver, Massachusetts, turned into a deeply touching display of unexpected kindness, leaving diners in tears and reaffirming the profound impact of simple human connection.
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Lindsey's family was celebrating her mother's birthday with a party of thirteen, admittedly making quite a bit of joyous noise. Seated beside them was an elderly couple, and initially, Lindsey's group worried they might be a nuisance.
“We thought they were annoyed by us,” Lindsey recalled. But everything changed when they finished singing “Happy Birthday” to her mom. The woman next to them smiled warmly and said, “It’s my husband’s birthday too.”
Without hesitation, Lindsey’s mom lit a candle in a cupcake and the whole group sang again — this time, for the gentleman named Tony. The impromptu celebration continued as they shared cake with Tony and his wife, who expressed immense gratitude for the unexpected gesture.
Then came the words that lingered with everyone: when Lindsey’s mom told Tony, “We’ll meet here next year,” he softly replied, “I don’t think so.” At the time, no one quite understood the weight of those words.
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"This means more to us than you know. My husband was just diagnosed with cancer, and he's not doing well."
— Wholesome Side of 𝕏 (@itsme_urstruly) June 15, 2025
Dude testing whether he could get off at this train stop and run to the next train stop pic.twitter.com/vzrelg8YiD
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) June 16, 2025
This is accurate
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DJ Doof - Today In Music History Version
From thisdayinmusic.com
Born on this date in 1958: Patrick Waite, Musical Youth, best remembered for their successful 1982 single 'Pass the Dutchie'
On this date in 1970: Mungo Jerry were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with In The Summertime. It went on to become the best-selling UK single of 1970 spending seven weeks at No.1 and was a hit in 26 other countries
On this date in 1994: Kristen Pfaff best known as the bassist for alternative rock band Hole was found dead in her bathtub due to a heroin overdose aged 26
Also born on this date:
1971: Lesane Parish Crooks who you may know by a different name.
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Podcast: Should America join the fun in Iran, masks on cops? NYC mayoral candidate beclowns himself, Tucker Carlson is an idiot, rare earth mining subsidies? and more!
Troops wearing Union army uniforms walked by, and then the First Cavalry wearing their cavalry hats and big yellow buff leather gloves. They even had a horse-drawn wagon. Now WWI uniforms.
BTW, Tampon Tim, China stages a lot of Chinese army parades, too. Weird that you didn't compare Trump's military parade to the parades staged by your patrons in China.
A commenter says the Real America network will cover the Army's 250th Anniversary Parade starting at 4pm. (Eastern, I guess.) The Right Side Broadcasting network will cover it starting at 4:30.
Israel bombs Iran. Finally. Iran's top nuclear scientist says the nuke plant at Natanz has been completely destroyed. Though it's in Iran's interest to lie about Israel having been successful, so they can start their nuke program again while claiming it's all been destroyed.
Podcast: The Los Angeles riots: should we let it burn? Why are the Democrats all in on rioting? Who is supporting it? Trump says, "No Enrichment!" The Scandinavian Troll in the news... And more!
ANTIFA affiliate “No Kings” (funded by Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton ) is scheduling riotscivil disobedience in cities across the U.S. on June 14. Included in their itinerary is a small-town “road game” at the ICE Detention Center in rural Taylor, TX this Saturday at 10 AM. Good ol’ boys in Central Texas will have a rare home field advantage if their visitors get rowdy. [Buck]
Lost 90s Mystery Click, Post-Grunge Alt-Rock Edition Don't scream about, don't think aloud
Turn your head, now baby, just spit me out
Don't worry 'bout, don't speak of doubt
Turn your head, now baby, just spit me out
Read my new book "Burned", describing how the media was TRICKED by activists into reporting the anti-ICE protesters were peaceful and lawful...
Space Ice: Batman & Robin Space Ice has avoided all superhero movies (I think) in the past, but now that he's out of Steven Seagal movies, he might have to transition. Or maybe he's just covering it because it's Arnold. Wrong! He's done Madame Web and Morbius and probably a bunch more I've forgotten.
Podcast: President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill...isn't, Congress shirks its responsibility again (shocker!), Boulder should be an overdue wake-up call for Jews in America, should Israel sink Thunberg's boat? And more!
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