Monday Overnight Open Thread - July 7, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Monday ONT time has arrived. Today is July 7. Or 7/7. Or maybe for you it's Seven and Seven? No matter your preference, please step on in and hang out for a while!
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Cave Canem Cafe
—Ace
Baby elephant is unsteady on the new legs but he's got star power.
The cat's used to displacing other animals, but now he's met his match.
Beach bird bully says "Locals only."
Horse asks his buddy for help.
Whales making all sorts of racket.
I think someone blew pot smoke into this shark's nose.
Stroking the cobra, if you mark my meaning.
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Report: Fired USAID and Deep State Operatives Are Planning to Use Their Regime Change/Color Revolution Skills Against Trump
—Ace
Trump Fired Them. Now They're Plotting to Stop Him. Former USAID and State Department officials worried about the future of democracy in America say they're actively organizing to resist Trump, inside and outside of government.By Jose Pagliery
Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump's power.
For years, these officials were stationed across the globe actively supporting opposition movements in autocratic nations. Now they've got time, a network of former colleagues and a growing sense of moral indignation.
"Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We've become one," said a currently employed federal official, who spoke to NOTUS on condition of anonymity. "They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they've done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime."
"Pay us to not work or we'll organize a coup."
Prison for all of them.
The former officials tell NOTUS they're holding workshops on a tactic called "noncooperation." They're building a network of government workers willing to engage in even minor acts of rebellion in the office. And they're planting the seeds of what they hope could become a nationwide general strike.Some in the informal network of Trump opponents are sharing an old CIA pamphlet with allies who still work in the government: It's called "Simple Sabotage."
"Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police," it says. "The saboteur may have to reverse his thinking... where he formerly thought of keeping his tools sharp, he should now let them grow dull; surfaces that formerly were lubricated now should be sanded; normally diligent, he should now be lazy and careless."
The community is composed of diplomats and human rights activists who were once on the U.S. government payroll encouraging Latin American dissidents to fight dictators and supporting African independence movements. They were involved to varying degrees with an ultimately successful uprising in the Middle East.
Some have found post-government work in academia and nonprofits.
No shit.
Others are still looking for jobs.
You don't say.
Several have begun moonlighting as strategic advisers to American activists, protest organizers and,b> federal employees willing to engage in civil disobedience.One group that has, until this story, remained under the radar but is starting to play a prominent role in this space is "DemocracyAID." It has no website or formal legal entity -- yet. But it's already hosting invite-only workshops with federal employees who hear about them from friends, vetting each person before they're allowed into a trusted circle and teaching them case studies, like the Danish underground insurgency against Nazi occupation. The lesson from Denmark is that what starts as office socializing can morph into trusted networks; seemingly uncoordinated work slowdowns transition into long lunch breaks that annoy the bosses as everyone goes home to "tend to their gardens."
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DemocracyAID is the brainchild of Danielle Reiff, another former USAID diplomat who retired from government work in late 2024. As Trump targeted her former agency this year, she started a group chat on the encrypted app Signal to "keep the community together."
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The focus quickly shifted from salvaging the foreign assistance infrastructure to redeploying inside the United States. Reiff and Tucci joined forces, held dozens of meetings, sketched out a general structure and split it up into working groups that concentrate on separate missions like communications and training. They now have 200 volunteers and an Instagram account, @friendsofUSAID, with over 88,000 followers. A recent post shared "5 ways to keep up the momentum" of last month's "No Kings" protests.
Thanks to comrade Arthur. Sen. Eric Schmitt posted about this so the Senate knows about it, too.
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Revealed: The Six-Page Memo That Conned Biden Into Debating Trump Early (So That the Democrat Party Could Force Him Out)
—Ace
Matt Margolis suggested that Biden's staff knew that Biden was declining rapidly, and so their gamble was to schedule the debate as soon as possible and give Biden a week off so that his dying brain could repair a little. They figured that Biden would be worse in July than in June, worse in August than in July, worse in September than in August, etc. So the "best Biden" was the current Biden, and every day they delayed a debate, Biden would be 1-2% more mentally degraded.
So there's that interesting theory, and then there's the older theory that Biden's inner circle wanted to pressure him to leave the race but they could not budge the stubborn vegetable, and figured that he would melt down in the debate so bad that even this brain-dead husk could see it for himself.
I'm not sure which theory is true. It's possible that both are. It could be that Biden's staff knew that he would get worse literally every single day, so current day Biden was as good as Biden was going to get, and also wanted the debate early so that if Biden melted down they would have time to attempt to push Anyone But Kamala into the nomination.
Either way, the memo advising Biden that YOU need to debate as soon as possible to put YOUR campaign in the best position to win has been leaked, and not even to Fake Jake Tapper.
With friends like these: In the ill-fated briefing document, dated April 15, 2024, Biden's senior advisers told him not to wait for the autumn dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates -- the first of which, they noted, was scheduled after mail-in ballots would start going out -- but instead to arrange a head-to-head with Trump within a matter of weeks. The memo was obtained by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, in the process of reporting their new book, "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America," which is out tomorrow.Read it and weep: "By holding the first debate in the spring, YOU will be able to reach the widest audience possible," Biden's top aides told him -- and by the way, every reference to Biden is written in attention-grabbing all-caps and bold -- "before we are deep in the summer months with the conventions, Olympics and family vacations taking precedence. In addition, the earlier YOU are able to debate the better, so that the American people can see YOU standing next to Trump and showing the strength of YOUR leadership, compared to Trump's weakness and chaos."
Biden was apparently so mentally degraded that he needed to have the word "YOU" written in all-caps bold to get his attention. Democrat memo more like Ace of Spades HTML protocol, am i rite
...And there's more: The book says support for an early debate was not unanimous among the president's aides, and that Some members of Biden world felt he should not go head-to-head with Trump at all. One unnamed donor called the White House in May, the book reports, "alarmed" by a recent appearance by the president at a Chicago fundraiser, and urged his team to "find an excuse" to get him out of the debates. This was rejected out of hand.
Of course. Biden thinks he's a real fighter and could whoop Trump behind the shack.
Among Biden's many fantastical vanities, his belief that he's some kind of tough-guy All-American pugilist turned out to be his most disastrous.
The whole memo is like this, with the bolded all-cap YOU and YOUR.
I just remembered -- we've seen photos of Biden's briefing notes written in this style. Stuff like: "YOU will walk out on stage when YOU are introduced by the host. YOU will walk ten paces to the podium, then YOU will take out YOUR speech cards and read from them."
MEMO TO BIDEN:YOUR staff is deliberately sabotaging YOU.
YOU are a semi-ambulatory VEGETABLE. YOU could not debate a CHICKPEA. YOU are a shambling SWAMP HUSK from a 1950s HORROR MOVIE.
YOU are now more MONSTER than MAN.
YOUR brain is rotten and YOUR "memories" are mostly just childhood sports fantasies mixed with half-remembered parts of 70s and 80s action movies. No, YOU did not defeat THUNDERLIPS (The Ultimate Male) at a charity wrestling match. That was ROCKY III.
Please stop saying this. YOU are causing headaches for YOUR staff. We cannot keep fabricating new timelines in which YOU led the Dallas Cowboys to victory in SUPERBOWL VI.
YOU are being set-up to fail so that YOUR presidency can be stolen from YOU and given to Kamala Harris or the GAY NERD.
As Kamala Harris would say, YOU are NOT being Positioned for Success.
Trump May Prosecute Disgraced Ex-Communist CIA Head John Brennan for Perjury
—Ace
Matt Taibbi on the central role John Brennan played in legitimizing Hillary Clinton's completely fake oppo research "dossier" into a product of official US intelligence:
Miranda Devine of the New York Post, who broke the fateful story about Hunter Biden's laptop, has struck again with an exposé on the origins of Russiagate that implicates former intelligence chiefs John Brennan, James Comey, and Jim Clapper in an elaborate fraud. From the story, which is centered on a new CIA report commissioned by John Ratcliffe:Brennan handpicked the CIA analysts to compile the ICA and involved only the ODNI, CIA, FBI and NSA, excluding 13 of the then-17 intelligence agencies.He sidelined the National Intelligence Council and forced the inclusion of the discredited Steele dossier despite objections of the authors and senior CIA Russia experts, so as to push a false narrative that Russia secured Trump's 2016 victory.
"This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding 'We're going to screw Trump,'" said Ratcliffe in an exclusive interview. "It was, 'We're going to create this and put the imprimatur of an IC assessment in a way that nobody can question it.'"
The CIA report is focused mainly on the publication of the infamous Intelligence Community Assessment of January 6th, 2017, which concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought "to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability" while maintaining a "clear preference for President-elect Trump." Publication of that Intelligence Assessment, which was ordered by Barack Obama on December 6th, 2016 and included material from the infamous Steele dossier, set in motion a series of events that led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. It was the trigger for years of Russiagate lunacy that consumed Trump's first term.
Racket readers may remember reports I co-authored with Michael Shellenberger and Alexandra Gutentag last February, describing how Brennan, Comey, and Clapper "cooked the intelligence" in that 2017 ICA. For instance, the chiefs suppressed junior analysts' belief that Russia may not have preferred Trump, seeing him as "mercurial," "unreliable," and "not steady," while viewing a possible Clinton presidency as "manageable and reflecting continuity." The notion that the ICA was manipulated isn't new, as Aaron Mate at RealClearInvestigations reported the ICA's preparation "deviated from standard CIA practice," and similar reports came out via former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, current deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, and others.
However, this new report contains a wealth of new details. It's not clear what this may or may not mean for any possible future criminal investigation, but Ratcliffe's CIA investigation fills in a lot of blanks. Some key conclusions:
CIA chief was warned not to include the Steele Dossier
The new CIA report criticizes the intel chiefs for including the Steele Dossier in the report, saying that "ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles" and "undermined the credibility" of his key conclusions. That isn't just a post-factum conclusion, however. The report reveals:
CIA's Deputy Director for Analysis (DDA) warned in an email to Brennan on 29 December that including it in any form risked "the credibility of the entire paper."Thanks to previous reports (including material from John Brennan's own book Undaunted), it was already known that Brennan not only overruled NSA chief Mike Rogers but "two senior managers for the CIA mission center for Russia" to reach the much-disputed conclusion that Putin "aspired" to help Donald Trump win the election. The new CIA report's inclusion of an email from a senior CIA official specifically warning against use of the Steele Dossier is damning.
Regarding the objections of those two "senior managers," Ratcliffe had more detail:
The two senior leaders of the CIA mission center responsible for Russia argued jointly against including the "aspire" judgment. In an email to Brennan on 30 December, they stated the judgment should be removed because it was both weakly supported and unnecessary, given the strength and logic of the paper's other findings on intent. They warned that including it would only "open up a line of very politicized inquiry."It's one thing for Ratcliffe to criticize the ICA, but these specific email warnings add significantly to the pile of evidence that the key pillar of Russiagate was manipulated.
Taibbi writes that the FBI only endorsed the fake "intelligence" report because they themselves had predicated their illegal surveillance of Trump on the Steele Dossier -- and were eager to sign up for any report that legitimized their own crimes.
Why the FBI endorsed the ICAAccording to the report:
FBI leadership made it clear that their participation in the ICA hinged on the Dossier's inclusion and, over the next few days, repeatedly pushed to weave references to it throughout the main body of the ICA.This is a significant revelation, because while the NSA expressed only "moderate" confidence in the Intelligence Assessment, the FBI appeared to change its mind.
On October 31, 2016, a week before Obama ordered the ICA written, senior FBI officials told the New York Times in a much-criticized piece called "Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia" that "even the hacking into Democratic emails, F.B.I. and intelligence officials now believe, was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump." In the first week of December 2016, the FBI and CIA reportedly gave conflicting briefings to Congress on the question. Shortly after, the FBI publicly backed the CIA's interpretation.
The reason for the FBI's turnaround has always been a mystery.
The FBI by December 2016 already knew it had an issue with its use of the Steele Dossier to obtain FISA surveillance on Carter Page, and the FBI's lead Trump-Russia investigator Peter Strzok had privately questioned Steele's reliability. By inducing the CIA to throw its weight behind the flawed document (one the CIA itself had pooh-poohed as "internet rumor"), the FBI and Comey gained crucial bureaucratic cover.
And, of course:
It was Brennan all alongFrom the report:
One business day before IC analysts convened for the only coordination session on the ICA, Brennan sent a note to the CIA workforce stating he had met with the DNI and FBI Director and that "there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our recent Presidential election." While officers involved in drafting the ICA consistently said they did not feel pressured ...Brennan's premature signaling... risked stifling analytic debate.As has been made clear, there was no "strong consensus" about Russia's intentions among the three agencies. The NSA was lukewarm at best, the FBI gave public statements contradicting the ICA conclusions, and even within the CIA -- even within Brennan's hand-picked group of CIA analysts -- there was serious dissent. Brennan steamrolled that dissent in a number of ways, beginning with this "premature signaling" effort, and moving on to override his own team.
Ratcliffe wrote that "Brennan showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness," describing a scene in which he overrode the objections to the Steele Dossier by those two CIA "mission center for Russia" analysts. When confronted, Brennan reportedly said, "My bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report."
Overall, the report looks very bad for the intelligence chiefs Brennan, Comey, and Clapper, who submitted the flawed ICA to the National Intelligence Council just "hours before it was due to be published," as Devine wrote. Those same figures then briefed President-Elect Trump about the ICA's contents, ostensibly to warn him about the possibility of Russian efforts to compromise him. Shortly after, the details of that briefing were leaked to the press. In this manner, the otherwise classified issue of "blackmail" and the pee tape and so on became public, leading to years of the Russiagate circus.
Now Miranda Divine is back with a new report: Brennan mau face perjury charges over his false testimony to Congress, denying his central role in the conspiracy.
John Brennan, the disgraced former Obama CIA director, may have opened himself up to perjury charges after a new email was uncovered in a scathing internal review by CIA career professionals of the agency's 2016 Trump-Russia collusion assessment.Brennan is said to be under renewed scrutiny by authorities over discrepancies between his sworn testimony to federal investigations and his written orders to underlings conducting the Intelligence Community Assessment commissioned by President Barack Obama in December 2016 that found Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump.
The review, declassified last week, found that Brennan insisted on the inclusion of the discredited Steele dossier, over the strong objections of the CIA's two most senior Russia experts, who said it "did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards."
John Brennan testifying before the House Intelligence Committee.Then-CIA Deputy Director for Analysis (DDA) David Cohen warned in an email to Brennan on December 29 that including the dossier in any form risked "the credibility of the entire paper."
But Brennan "formalized his position in writing, stating that 'my bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.' "
...Last week's CIA review by the deputy director of analysis found that when Brennan was "confronted with specific flaws in the Dossier by the two [Russia] mission center leaders -- one with extensive operational experience and the other with a strong analytic background -- he appeared more swayed by the Dossier's general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns."
The decision to include the Steele dossier in the assessment "ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment."
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Including the dossier reference in the main body of the ICA "implicitly elevated unsubstantiated claims to the status of credible supporting evidence, compromising the analytical integrity of the judgment."
By forcing the dossier into the ICA, the virulently anti-Trump Brennan also elevated the credibility of the vile fictional smear sheet which he had been shopping to Democratic leaders and the press during the 2016 election campaign.
The review found that former FBI Director James Comey also insisted on the dossier's inclusion in the ICA. "FBI leadership made it clear that their participation in the ICA hinged on the Dossier's inclusion and, over the next few days, repeatedly pushed to weave references to it throughout the main body of the ICA."
Again, reinforcing the idea that Comey wanted the Steele Dossier included because the needed it to be legitimized to justify his illegal spying on Trump.
Yet in congressional testimony under oath on May 23, 2017, Brennan claimed the Steele dossier "wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community Assessment that was done."Now we know that is not true. The Steele dossier was forced into the ICA by Brennan and it appeared not just in the "annex" but was referenced in the main body of the ICA that ended up triggering the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller that crippled the first two years of Trump's first term and served to delegitimize his 2016 election victory.
Brennan continued to play innocent in various media interviews, including those he was paid for as an MSNBC contributor. In 2018, he told NBC's "Meet the Press" that he first heard "just snippets about" the Steele dossier in the "late summer of 2016."
Note: Politi"Fact" says it's "Mostly False" to say John Brennan was a communist.
He merely admits voting for the communist party, that's all.
You liars!
CBS "News" Fears Mass Layoffs Under New Skydance Ownership
—Ace
Won't someone think of the journalists!
[I] can guarantee that the 42-year-old Ellison -- the son of mega-billionaire Larry Ellison of Oracle fame, who is a MAGA supporter of the president -- isn't thinking about the CBS News legacy as he prepares to complete his $8 billion combo.In fact, from what I hear, continuing in the grand tradition of Murrow, Wallace and Cronkite is not at the top of Ellison's mind because, for one, it ain't so grand any longer, and two (maybe most important), he knows it's a lousy business.
It's not worth the trouble that it generates. We don't even know if it's profitable since Paramount doesn't disclose the news division's P&L statements. Plus, its product has moved so far to the left that it angers more than half the country.
Full disclosure: I don't know David Ellison personally but people I trust do, and they tell me he's substantive, much more than a lucky sperm kid that being Larry's son confers. His independent studio Skydance has produced such recent blockbusters as "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning."
He doesn't get his news from TikTok -- far from it.
For the time being, he wants to keep the news division but also move away from its progressive leanings. (A person close to him says look for investments in "truth-based" news.) He does appreciate the CBS News legacy that he is about to buy -- as long as the numbers are working and he believes they aren't, I am told.
And that's where things could get scary for the news division.
Ellison, I am told, equates CBS with football more than he does with Cronkite. If he's looking to grow stuff, he and his point man in running the new company, former NBCU chief Jeff Shell, are looking at CBS Sports as the tip of the spear.
Everything else is about to get the mother of all efficiency reviews, my sources say.
Layoffs are likely, as are smaller salaries and squeezed budgets.
In Ellison's worldview, CBS News' legacy has cachet but when an anchor like Tony Dokoupil gets upbraided by management -- as he did last year -- for questioning the work of far left author Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Coates' rationalization of the Oct. 7 massacre, something needs to change.
...If I were in the news division, I would be afraid, very afraid.
One can imagine that part of the reason CBS "News" "journalists" fought the Trump settlement is precisely because they wanted to block the Skydance sale from happening, because they knew the new management would fire their lazy, incompetent hack asses.
Paramount slashed 3.5% of its workforce in June.
And that came after it cut 15% of its workforce in 2024.
The latest cuts come after the media giant slashed about 15% of its workforce last year, part of an effort to trim costs by $500 million and return the company to profitability.For the first three months of the year, Paramount reported net earnings of $152 million on revenue of $7.1 billion, compared with a loss of $563 million on revenue of $7.6 billion in the year-ago period.
From May: CBS "News" may get rid of Leslie Stahl and Scott Pelley.
Staffers are now speculating whether Pelley and Stahl will be the next to go, following the exit of former 60 Minutes showrunner Bill Owens last month.Both correspondents had made their loyalty to McMahon and Owens known, as the network continues to navigate the president's suit.
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LOL: Zohran Mamdani Claimed He Was Black on His Columbia University Application
—Ace
Someone hacked Columbia's computers to prove they were still using illegal racial discrimination practices in admissions.
We don't know if they found evidence of that yet, but what they did find is that the pro-Hamas jihadi communist New Democrat Zohran Mamdani claimed in his Columbia application package that he was "Asian" and... "black."
The New York Times reported this, but only because they knew anti-DEI crusader Christopher Rufo was about to report it himself, and getting scooped by Rufo on an all-NYC story (Columbia is in NYC) would be a yet another professional embarrassment.
Unbelievably -- which I now use in its modern sense of "perfectly believably," just like "literally" now means "not literally" -- the New York Times is defending itself against its woke hyperpartisan Marxist employees for reporting actual news.
Jonathan Turley:
New York Times Struggles to Explain Why It Reported News to Traumatized Readers
This week, the New York Times experienced an uprising in its ranks and among its readers. The paper was denounced by its own staff and liberal pundits called for the entire editorial staff to be canned. Why? Because The New York Times actually reported news that was deemed harmful to the Democrats, specifically Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani.The newspaper took the additional step of publishing a cringing explanation of why it reported the news that Mamdani lied on his Columbia application in claiming to be black.
For liberals, it was an utter nightmare. For a party still defined by identity politics, Mamdani's false claim over his race left many uncertain about how to react.
The left has always maintained a high degree of tolerance for false claims by its own leaders, from Sen. Elizabeth Warren claiming to be a native American to Sen. Richard Blumenthal claiming to have served in the Vietnam War.
The problem is when a news eco-chamber for many readers is shattered by an errant outbreak of journalism. Many Times readers live within a hermetically sealed news silo, relying on MSNBC for cable, The New York Times for print, and BlueSky for social media. You can literally go all day without being exposed to an opposing view or fact. Then suddenly this happens.
The result is often anger. It is the same response many in higher education have to "triggering" views being expressed on campus by conservative or libertarian speakers.
The fact is that the Mamdani story was obvious news--and confirmed by the candidate himself. Mamdani identified as both Asian and African American on his 2009 Columbia University application, according to the New York Times.
Some accused him of being a fraud while others suggested he was trying to abuse affirmative action.
The Times reported, adding:
Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there.In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Mamdani, 33, said he did not consider himself either Black or African American, but rather "an American who was born in Africa." He said his answers on the college application were an attempt to represent his complex background given the limited choices before him, not to gain an upper hand in the admissions process. (He was not accepted at Columbia.)
Obviously, the Times is spinning as hard as it can to claim that its scoop just isn't very newsworthy and that you should ignore it entirely.
They are pushing Zorhan's spin: "In order to tell a deeper truth, I was forced to lie about the actual facts."
This is, of course, an eternal claim of the left, so it makes perfect sense to the NYT.
The Times readers were outraged to the point that the paper published a lengthy statement from the Times' assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, Patrick Healy, attempting to explain why it decided to publish facts that undermined a Democratic candidate. Healy sheepishly explained that "When we hear anything of news value, we try to confirm it through direct sources. Mr. Mamdani confirmed this information in an interview with The Times."It did not help. Much like the infamous Cotton scandal, where editors were fired for allowing a Republican senator to print an opposing view on riots, writers and pundits demanded firings or attacked the journalists.
One such response came from Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, who attacked the journalists themselves. Not surprisingly, the attack appropriately came on BlueSky, a social media site designed to be a safe place for liberals who do not want to be triggered by opposing views.
Bouie slammed Times reporter, Benjamin Ryan, as stupid, claiming, "Everything I have seen about him screams a guy with little to no actual brain activity."
After that outrageous attack, Bouie deleted the post, explaining, "I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards."
An Armed Gunman Shoots Border Patrol Guards In an "Ambush" As Axios Reports Rich White Democrats Are Demanding Actual Violence and a Literal Bloody Revolution Against Trump
—Ace
Muh Normzzz. Muh precious Normzzz.
Muh Pillars of Democracy.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_BREAKING: Three federal & TX law enforcement sources tell me an active shooter with a rifle & tactical gear ambushed Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, TX this morning. Local police and federal agents returned fire, killing him. I'm told this was a purposeful ambush/attack against federal agents and a press conference is planned for later this morning. No federal agents injured. Im told a McAllen police officer may have been shot, but is in stable condition.
The would-be mass murderer was only doing what his fellow Democrats demanded he do.
From Democrat-mouthpiece Axios: Democrats demand literal blood in the literal fight against Trump.
Democrats told to "get shot" for the anti-Trump resistance
Well, this guy did. So is he a hero now?
At town halls in their districts and in one-on-one meetings with constituents and activists, Democratic members of Congress are facing a growing thrum of demands to break the rules, fight dirty -- and not be afraid to get hurt.
Why it matters: House Democrats told Axios they see a growing anger among their base that has, in some cases, morphed into a disregard for American institutions, political traditions and even the rule of law.
"This idea that we're going to save every norm and that we're not going to play [Republicans'] game ... I don't think that's resonating with voters anymore," said one House Democrat.
Another told Axios that a "sense of fear and despair and anger" among voters "puts us in a different position where ... we can't keep following norms of decorum."
Axios spoke to more than two dozen House Democrats for this story, with many requesting anonymity to offer candid insights about their interactions with constituents and activists.
Zoom out: For months, Democratic lawmakers have fumed that their base's demands to "fight harder" misunderstand the lack of legislative and investigative power afforded to the minority party in Congress.
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What we're hearing: The grassroots wants more. "Some of them have suggested ... what we really need to do is be willing to get shot" when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios.
"Our own base is telling us that what we're doing is not good enough ... [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public," the lawmaker said.
A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them "civility isn't working" and to prepare for "violence ... to fight to protect our democracy."A fifth House Democrat told Axios that "people online have sent me crazy s*** ... told me to storm the White House and stuff like that," though they added that "there's always people on the internet saying crazy stuff."
Between the lines: While other Democratic lawmakers said their discussions haven't gone that far, nearly every one who spoke to Axios cited examples of voters' panic and fury fueling demands to adopt brute force tactics.
A sixth House Democrat said that when they try to persuade voters to channel their frustration into a focus on winning back Congress in 2026, "people who are angry don't accept that. They're angry beyond things."
"It's like ... the Roman coliseum. People just want more and more of this spectacle," said a seventh lawmaker.
Who's calling for violence?
No shock -- it's the AWFLs and Karens, who assume that because of their sex and money they will never be held accountable for their incitement of violence, and never be on the receiving end of retallitatory violence themselves.
Zoom in: Many lawmakers said these voters tend to be white, well-educated and live in upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods."What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and ... a lot of times that's coming from economically very secure white people," said an eighth House Democrat.
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The bottom line: "The expectations aren't just unreal. They're dangerous," the eighth House Democrat said.
A ninth lawmaker told Axios: "I actually said in a meeting, 'When they light a fire, my thought is to grab an extinguisher,'" a ninth House Democrat told Axios.
"And someone at the table said, 'Have you tried gasoline?'"
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Communist Ghoul Media Goes Straight to Blaming a Republican President for Deadly Weather
—Ace
Around 70 people died in the floods and we can expect that number to continue rising as some of those reported missing will eventually be confirmed to be dead.
President Donald Trump signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, over the weekend, pledging immediate federal assistance to support rescue and recovery operations after devastating Fourth of July flooding.Key Details:
In a Truth Social post Sunday, Trump confirmed he signed the disaster declaration "to ensure that our Brave First Responders immediately have the resources they need."
Floodwaters surged through Kerr County on Independence Day, claiming nearly 70 lives and leaving over 20 girls still missing, according to updated reports.
More than 850 individuals have been rescued thanks to joint operations by the U.S. Coast Guard and state emergency personnel, Trump said, noting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the area alongside Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.Diving Deeper:
President Donald Trump moved swiftly over the weekend to authorize federal support for flood recovery efforts in central Texas, where the aftermath of deadly flash flooding continues to unfold. On Sunday, Trump announced via Truth Social that he had signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, one of the hardest-hit regions in the state.
"I just signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, to ensure that our Brave First Responders immediately have the resources they need," Trump wrote. "These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost, and many still missing."
The disaster struck during Independence Day celebrations, with sudden and violent flooding sweeping through areas around Kerrville -- including children's camps -- leaving widespread devastation in its path.
The Democrat Media knew from the first moments the cause for this tragedy: Global Warming and the Bad Orange Man who is a Fascist.
It's so strange that no Democrat president, not one, has ever been blamed for the weather-related catastrophes that occur during his term, while not a single Republican president has ever escaped blame.
That seems statistically unlikely, if we assume a non-partisan media, so we should definitely not assume that.
Michael Shellenberger @shellenbergerClimate change caused the Texas floods that killed at least 27 people, say the media. No, it didn't. The lack of a flood warning system did. We've managed floods for millennia, and deaths from them declined 80% in the last 100 years. Climate reporters are trapped in a weird cult
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenbergerJul 5
Climate change caused the catastrophic floods that tore through Central Texas over the last few days, killing at least 27 people, including nine children, and turning calm rivers into violent torrents, according to the media.At Camp Mystic in Kerr County, the Guadalupe River surged from about three feet to nearly 29 feet in just 90 minutes, sweeping away cabins, vehicles, and people with little or no warning. Climate change caused a warmer atmosphere, which holds more moisture, and unleashed it in increasingly intense bursts.
Volumes of precipitation were extreme. They had less than a 0.1% chance of occurring in any given year, according to the New York Times. Texas climatologists warned that the frequency and severity of such events have already increased and could intensify by another 10 percent by 2036. In East Texas, "the number of days per year with at least two inches of rain or snow has increased by 20 percent since 1900," noted the Times.
But that tiny increase in precipitation doesn't explain the floods or the deaths in Texas. Over the past century, global flood deaths declined by more than 80 percent. That happened not because nations reduced rainfall but because they have learned how to live with it. They built levees, dams, and drainage systems. They developed early warning systems and evacuated people before the water arrived. Kerr County in Texas failed to do any of these things.
Despite its location in one of the most flood-prone regions in the United States, the county had no formal flood warning system in place. There were no sirens, no automated text alerts, no rapid evacuation protocol. The river rose, and families had no idea it was coming...
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THE MORNING RANT: The Big Beautiful Bill Has Just Kneecapped Green Energy and the “EV Transition”
—Buck Throckmorton
This is a joyous moment for conservatives and all of us who have been battling the climate hoax. With President Trump signing the One Big Beautiful Bill into law, government subsidization of electric vehicles and “green energy” has effectively been shut down.
I will have much more to write about this, and I also know that a lot of people had reservations about the OBBB because it did not suddenly fix decades of government deficit spending. But what it did do is actually eliminate some of the most egregious government spending that was in service to attacks on America’s energy independence and transportation freedom. Unlike traditional omnibus bills where Republican congressmen get funding for roads or infrastructure in exchange for Democrats getting an expansion of the welfare state, this law is slashing all sorts of left-wing programs, including the funding of Medicaid for the able-bodied who won’t work, and for Planned Parenthood.
Perhaps most significant to me is that the OBBB has killed off the “EV transition” effective almost immediately. In addition, green energy boondoggles will have to come up with a business plan that doesn’t involve taxpayer subsidization. We are also likely near the end of the environmental nightmare of wind energy, and industrial-scale solar.
Specifically:
• Wind and Solar Energy Projects: Tax credits are eliminated, with the exception that projects started within the next 11 months, or those completed by the end of 2027, are grandfathered in.
• Residential Solar: The 30% tax credit goes away at the end of this year.
• Electric Vehicles: The $7,500 per unit federal tax credit for the purchase of new EVs is eliminated effective 9/30/2025 – less than three months! The $4,000 federal incentive for buying a used EV is also killed off.
• EV Chargers: The tax credit for installing an EV charger at home is also killed off effective 6/30/2026, less than a year from now.
There is nothing in this big beautiful law that will stop a person from being true to his faith in The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse. He can still buy a Tesla or any other electric vehicle, install a car charger in his home, and produce some of the electricity on his very own rooftop solar array. None of this will be prohibited. It’s just not going to be subsidized by the rest of us. Let freedom ring.
There are still a lot of “small government conservatives” criticizing the OBBB. I’d caution fellow conservatives to be careful about nodding too vigorously with these critics who accuse the OBBB being a “tax-and-spend bill,” since we conservatives are famously anti-tax. Everyone who is losing a “green” tax credit will be facing a “tax increase,” which was really just a very special, targeted incentive subsidized by the rest of us. The elimination of tax exemptions for adversaries seeking to deny me reliable energy and transportation freedom is a “tax increase” I can enthusiastically support.
My latest piece at The Blaze is a non-political piece that ran over the holiday weekend. It’s a little bit of Americana recounting a morning I spent chatting with a wise, ex-convict on a Texas fishing pier.
“You know,” he said, “my biggest regret isn’t those lost years. It’s how it hurt my folks. They had to always try to avoid talking about family. They stopped going out much. It hurts to have to say, ‘My boy is in prison in Huntsville.’ Mom died while I was in prison, and I missed her funeral. I’ve paid my debt to society. I think I’ve overpaid. By looking out for Dad, I can try to repay a more important debt.”
The story is behind a paywall, but if you’re a Blaze subscriber I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest piece at The Blaze: "From Prison to Pier: The Unlikely Wisdom of a Catfisherman"
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) July 6, 2025
"Catching a hardhead always recalls the gentle ex-convict whose path in life briefly intersected with mine one morning on a South Texas pier."https://t.co/MJcSlFmSDU
[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
The Morning Report — 7/7 /25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids, Of course the big story is the massive flooding in Texas that so far has claimed the lives of some 70 people, including 5 children from a Christian summer camp, and with search and rescue operations still ongoing, the death toll is likely to rise.
For all of you and your loved ones who are affected by this catastrophe, our thoughts and prayers go out to you and yours that you may stay safe and that relief and recovery are swift.
President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem are expected to be on the ground in Texas and more importantly moving resources into the area to aid in recovery and disaster amelioration efforts. Competency and actually giving a damn are indeed a refreshing change from Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden and his handlers. Of course, when disaster struck Red states during their junta's reign, it was more cruelty and retribution than incompetency that made the disasters even worse for the victims.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, as the state reels from deadly flooding that has killed dozens and left more missing. . . According to Trump, Coast Guard officials and Texas first responders have rescued over 850 people as of Sunday. At least 67 people have died in the floods across Texas, including 59 in Kerr County, according to local officials. Particularly hard-hit was Camp Mystic, a Christian summer retreat for girls near the Guadalupe River, where 11 children and one counselor remain missing, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said during a press briefing.
Of course, the response from the anti-American left is about what you'd expect:
When tragedy strikes, you can always count on the left to weaponize heartbreak for political gain. . . Instead of mourning the dead or supporting the heroic first responders—who have already rescued more than 850 people from the floodwaters—leftists are spinning a narrative that blames Trump-era budget decisions for the devastation. . . It’s not enough for them to politicize a tragedy—they have to lie about it, too. As the search for survivors continues, liberal pundits and blue-check Twitter warriors are busy “concern trolling” Texans, suggesting that “this is what happens when you cut too much government.” Some have even gone so far as to imply that red states somehow deserve this fate, as if the weather itself is a tool of cosmic justice for voting the wrong way. The sheer callousness is staggering.
Meh, these are the same twisted reptilian ghouls who cheered on the Islamic hordes from Gaza raping and butchering Israelis if not joining in here at home by verbally and physically assaulting Jews on college campuses and elsewhere.
The city is dying, and we should let it. Progressives are all in favor of assisted suicide, we should join them in the case of New York and help the city kill itself. Only a complete embrace of socialist/fascist/communist policies (and there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the three) will ween those people off their addiction to seeking government to solve their problems/improve their lives. Let it die, and let them choke on whatever damage and harm to people it does along the way.Some people can learn from history, other are too dumb to heed those lessons and avoid the pitfalls of the past. New York falls into the latter, so let them swallow the whole bottle of their own medicine. I can’t bring myself to care.
Republicans in Washington should do everything to make sure that all the socialist policies New York currently has, and the ones in waiting to be imposed, have the maximum impact on the people who voted for their worthless politicians.
As I attempted to articulate, I totally get this sentiment and I even agree with it. Good and hard as the saying goes. But, I still have elderly relatives and some sane friends who simply cannot pack up and leave for a host of reasons and so are trapped. Yes, it's easy to to tell NYC and every other blue shit hole to go to hell. But, unless and until an actual civil war or other political dissolution of the bonds that tie us together comes about, if it and all the other blue states go down, we may very well be sucked down in the vortex as well.
So there's that and then there is the sheer insanity/stupidity/folly or whatever of Elon Musk forming a political party that will only, if it does gain any traction, merely siphon off votes from the Trump base and Trump averse GOP electorate thereby handing the country over to the Democrats for the midterms, 2028 and quite possibly well into the future.
This at the very moment when the Democrat Party is tearing itself apart as it struggles to contain the erupting insanity of the Momdani/Titty-Caca/Bernie Sanders and other bust-out wackadoo maniacs from gaining control from the more effective closeted communists and criminals who control the Party.
President Trump in just the past 6 months has been wildly successful domestically and internationally, with his most successful accomplishment being exposing the Democrats as well as the traitors allegedly on our side in the GOP for who and what they are.
As CBD and I lamented on the latest episode of the podcast in reference to the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, all it is is the furtherance of the multi-trillion dollar ongoing grift that makes politicians on both sides of the aisle part and parcel of the same hypocrisy.
The irony of course is that the BBB, at least in our early estimation will expose this, but as erudite commenter and friend Dave in Florida pointed out to me (and which i included in the editorial last Friday) there are actually some very good things in the bill, so I look forward to having my reservations about it proven to be wrong.
President Trump in just the past 6 months has been wildly successful domestically and internationally, with his most successful accomplishment being exposing the Democrats as well as the traitors allegedly on our side in the GOP for who and what they are.
Whether the BBB stinks on ice or is indeed a major Trump masterstroke, Musk is violating Napoleon's ironclad principle of when your enemy is making a mistake, let them continue without interference. Jealousy, treachery, duplicitousness? What a scumbag, or am I missing something here? Instead of a third party pipe dream, it should be all hands on deck to wrest control of the GOP.
Elsewhere, has it really been 20 years since the Islamic terror attack on London?
How time flies when westerners have their heads up their ass...
And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
Have a great day!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- A general aviation aircraft was intercepted by a North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) fighter after it violated Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) airspace over Bedminster, New Jersey. This event marked one of five unauthorized incursions into the restricted airspace on the day.The civilian aircraft entered the restricted zone at about 2:39 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To capture the pilot’s attention, NORAD aircraft executed a headbutt maneuver and safely escorted the aircraft out of the area.
NORAD Intercepts Plane at Trump’s Bedminster.
- John Dale Dunn, M.D.: What didn’t happen is that four police officers violated both regulations and laws to kill George Floyd, and the officers were railroaded.
A Five-Year George Floyd Retrospective Lets Us See What Really Happened
- Victor Davis Hanson: Zoran Mamdani built his dream on radical chic—but now that he's winning, he's scrambling to bury the blueprint.
The Frightening Dream House of Zoran Mamdani
- Michael Walsh: The recent accession to the throne of St. Peter by the new pope, Leo XIV, is surely the most significant event in Church history since the doctrinal demolition derby of the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 unleashed by Pope John XXIII and concluded by Pope Paul VI (both, unaccountably, sainted since their deaths). Nothing did more to destroy the integrity and popularity of the Roman Catholic faith than this disastrous conclave, and nothing could be more timely or encouraging than a restoration of the liturgy by the Chicago White Sox fan, Pope Bob; it just might take an American to clean out the Augean Stables of the Eternal City.
THE COLUMN: Il Ritorno della Messa Tridentina in Patria?
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Daily Tech News 7 July 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Why AI sucks. (Dwarkesh)
Because it doesn't learn.
Specifically, current large language models are not designed to acquire and verify new facts and to discard old one that turned out to be incorrect, or to adopt new modes of though that streamline reasoning.
They are trained, once, and then left to slowly rot until they are replaced.
Interesting comments on this article too: Arguing about when AI will replace humanity and then admitting that nobody really knows anything and it will probably never happen.
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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - July 6, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Hope your Sunday has been good and your holiday weekend safe and enjoyable. The ONT is here for you as always. Come on in and share your wit and wisdom in the comments.
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Gun Thread: Vacation Edition 1.0
—Weasel
Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!
Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving hell did it get to be the Vacation Edition v1.0? Yep, that's correct guys and gals, We're headed to the beach for a week. Frankly my rigorous retirement schedule of napping, smoking cigars, and playing with Fun Size Joe & Gertie has been so exhausting I found I already needed a break. Thank you for understanding!
Fun Vacation Update: So we left Northern Virginia Saturday morning and about six hours later arrived at Surf City, NC. As we neared the beach, a portable digital road sign displayed the following message: TROPICAL STORM WARNING IN EFFECT which needless to say was something of a surprise as the last time I had looked at the weather the forecast was for fairly typical summer beach conditions. Anyhoo, it rained and blew bigly all Saturday night and into Sunday morning, but appears to be clearing, and I was able to venture out to get donuts and bagels for breakfast.
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
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Food Thread: Puttering And Popcorn!
—CBD
One of the pleasures of cooking is the relaxed pace of a home-cooked meal. Oh, I'm not talking about the frenetic meals that provide little besides fuel and a cursory check that the brats are still alive. You know, the ones that are scheduled between homework and band practice and baseball and picking up the car from the shop and getting that last load of laundry put away.
No... I am talking about the meals with good friends on a lovely and relaxed weekend, or the last evening of a vacation (or even an impromptu breakfast of savory French Toast with salt and butter).
The Roasted Chicken With Leeks and Butter-Sautéed Carrots that you see above was the delicious result of just such an event. And even better, it included shopping for the ingredients!
There are very few things better than puttering around the kitchen with friends, glasses of wine, sharp knives, and no real plan.
But it worked out marvelously, especially since the food really was good. As many of you know, my mantra when entertaining or being entertained is that the real pleasure is the company, and if the food is good? What a wonderful bonus!
We did forget to open the champagne, so there will need to be a reprise of this meal...
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First World Problems...
—CBD
That doesn't look like a problem! On the contrary, it is a delicious and wonderful thing, courtesy of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and a curious blind Benedictine monk.*
But...that is the extent of our Independence Day celebrations, since we are currently 3,650 miles from the greatest country in human history. That's a first for me, and I don't like it.
Seriously. I love Independence Day, because it reminds me every year exactly how lucky we all are, being the beneficiaries of that marvelous confluence of countless events that built the United States of America, none more so than the absolutely stupendous Declaration Of Independence.
56 men, mostly in their 30s and 40s (average age of 44!) signed that document. All of them knew that they were declaring open rebellion against one of the greatest powers on earth. If they lost, they would hang. But they did it anyway!
And against all odds they knocked the snot out of Great Britain, and took the greatest place on earth away from that empire. Little did King George and parliament know what they had just lost.
Luckily for them we are a forgiving people. 141 years later we bailed them out of a catastrophe in Europe, and then we did it again 25 years after that!
We have huge issues in America, and in many ways we have lost our way. But looking at the stunning developments over the past three election cycles makes me far more sanguine about our future prospects as a great country.
Yes, even the many catastrophes have shown us who the enemies of the Republic are, and that is a tremendous advantage. The battle is joined!
We are Americans, so we will win!
* Not really. Champagne wasn't invented by anyone...it evolved over centuries, but existed before Dom Perignon.
Russia Will Win In Ukraine, And It Doesn't Matter At All
—CBD
I am tired of hearing about Ukraine. I am tired of seeing Zelenskyy and his stupid track suits and smug assumptions that he is a global player. He looks as stupid as Hillary Clinton in her pants suits, and maybe just as arrogant! And I am sick of Putin being elevated into some vaunted position as a global leader when Russia is a regional, not a world power. And most of all I am tired of the histrionics emanating from the media and most European capitols that Ukraine is some bastion of Western Freedom, and we all must rally 'round their flag. What that actually means is that they want America to foot the bill in treasure and blood so that they can continue their lovely cradle-to-grave welfare state lives while spending almost nothing on defense.
Russia is bigger than Ukraine, has a larger army, has access to allies that will assist them, and will most probably win this war. And why should they stop? They are achieving whatever goals they have, and the West without the American military doing the heavy lifting won't, or can't (or both) help.
Ukraine has a power-mad midget dictator (when was the last election in Ukraine?) who wants the West to pay for his intransigence in the face of the current Russian belligerence. But Ukraine is not blameless in this war, and regardless of why it started, they had opportunities to end the war with a negotiated ceasefire, but chose to continue to burn through their men and the West's arms on some ridiculous hope that somehow they could turn the tide. They were wrong, and a lot of people are dead because of that decision.
Putin Tells Trump He Won't Give Up Goals In Ukraine, Kremlin Says
Putin told Trump that “Russia will achieve its goals” in Ukraine and “will not abandon” them, according to Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov, who spoke with reporters following the July 3 call. Russia is seeking to conquer Ukraine and bring the independent country back into its fold. [bold mine]
Wow...where did that assumption come from? It's the first time I have seen it, and I doubt very much that Putin wants all of Ukraine. Hell, what would he do with it? My guess that he wants what he has been saying all along...he wants the Russian parts!
U.S. Pauses Ukraine Arms Shipments Amid Broader Military Aid Review, Pentagon Says
The announcement follows confirmation by the White House that some shipments—reportedly including vital air defense munitions—have been temporarily halted.“We can’t give weapons to everybody all around the world. We have to look out for America and defending our homeland,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said during his first solo press briefing.
And this is the unavoidable reality of the world. We have to make decisions based on what is best for America, but until recently we didn't have a president who cared more for America than for the rest of the world.
I am happy that the administration is prioritizing the defense of America and its armed forces over the defense of a corrupt pseudo-democracy and its tinpot dictator president.
[check below the fold for some clownish stupidity from Bill Kristol. It's almost too stupid to believe it is real!]
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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 7-6-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (a little something for the 'Ettes, HT: Dash my lace wigs). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...(fireworks not included)
So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, let off any remaining fireworks (preferably not from your lap), and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?
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Daily Tech News 6 July 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- The Nvidia RTX 5090 - the fastest graphics card available - can lose up to 25% performance if it doesn't have full PCIe 5.0 x16 bandwidth. (WCCFTech)
For example, running at half speed - with either a PCIe x8 slot or PCIe 4.0 - it loses... Basically nothing. Maybe 1%.
At a quarter of the bandwidth - so PCIe 3.0 - it loses 10% of its performance.
If you drop all the way back to PCIe 2.0 you finally see that 25% performance loss.
Meaning that PCIe 5.0 doesn't improve performance unless you don't have all 16 lanes available, even on a 5090.
And if you're using it for a workload that resides mostly on the card, like AI processing, you hardly need anything. There's more variability between test runs than between a single lane and a full x16 slot.
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