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Seattle's Communist Woke Wallflower Mayor Says She Refuses to Investigate Medicaid Fraud In Her City Because That Would Hurt Our Precioius Nomadic Pirates
Seattle socialist mayor will NOT investigate fraud at Somali-run daycare centers, calls it attack on immigrants
"This whole issue is not really about fraud," said Wilson. "It's about dividing and conquering. It's about making an immigrant community a target."
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said the city has no intention of investigating fraud claims in taxpayer-funded social programs, claiming the concerns are an effort to target immigrant communities rather than address legitimate financial irregularities.
In an interview with KOMO News, Wilson was asked if she had authorized the Seattle Police Department or the city's Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs to investigate fraud charges involving daycare providers, particularly those in Somali and other immigrant communities. The mayor responded: "No."
"This whole issue is not really about fraud," said Wilson. "It's about dividing and conquering. It's about making an immigrant community a target. There's no reason to assume based on the identity of a daycare operator that their small business is doing anything wrong."
She added that "it's problematic to have random people showing up to daycares" and emphasized that "the fear in the Somali community is real" and "the fear in immigrant communities are real," saying her administration is "taking that very seriously."
Huh, how about that. She's saying it's the Somalis who would be found responsible for defrauding the Americans living next to them and stealing from them.
And then she applies the usual Democrat Rule that Minorities Are Immune from the Law and Allowed to Steal and Kill without Consequence.
EXCLUSIVE: Former Minnesota employee reveals suspected fraud scheme of 'fake injuries' at Somali businesses
With the benefit of hindsight, Janeen Balsimo thought, "wow, so the fraud went as far as the employee was a fake employee, probably with fake injuries, because there is no people at these places."
ByDr. JC Chaix and Liz Collin
It's perhaps yet another kind of Somali fraud that we haven't heard much about, and one that may involve fake businesses, fake injuries, and fake workers' comp claims.
Janeen Balsimo retired in the fall after working as a Minnesota state employee for nearly 30 years. She joined Liz Collin on her podcast.
Balsimo spent her last years at the Department of Human Services (DHS) in the Tort Recovery Unit as a tort specialist.
She said that she wanted to blow the whistle on workers' comp cases after what she noticed the last couple of years at her job--as hindsight and the exposure of fraud throughout Minnesota provided even more perspective.
Balsimo explained how she "recovered taxpayer dollars where another party should have been paying for the bills. For instance, like auto accidents or work comp. So we would get cases from attorneys representing the client."
"And then when the case would settle, we would get paid, the attorney would get paid his fees. DHS would get paid our portion. And then the client would be awarded whatever type of injury that they had back, usually got more awards than neck or arm. So they would get anywhere from $20,000 to $150,000 for their award for their injuries," Balsimo explained.
However, she noticed a strange trend emerging in her normally routine work. "About a year ago, I can remember my caseloads of Somalian cases were going way up. They were going up so much I even confided in another coworker. She had noticed it as well," Balsimo said.
She said "that's when I noticed my Somali cases, they all worked at a daycare center, an adult care center, a hospice or an autism center. And I found that really strange and they ended in the LLC because I had to keep typing it over and over and it was just really strange to me."
"Then I retired a few weeks before the Nick Shirley exposure ... and one day I was watching a video and I noticed the names of the businesses he was investigating. And they looked really familiar. Like I almost remember the name of the businesses just by typing them all the time and just dealing with them. And I could not believe it ... it all came together, Balsimo said.
"I went, oh my gosh, this was like a wow moment. These cases were probably fraudulent," she added.
Tennessee’s GOP State Government is Subsidizing the Relocation of Cultural Adversary Starbucks; How Did TN Leaders Promise $30M that Hadn’t Yet Been Approved in a Public Forum?
—Buck Throckmorton
I dislike corporate welfare in general. I passionately dislike corporate welfare for corporations fleeing anti-business blue states, because the economic freedom in the states they flee to is their financial incentive. But a red state offering corporate welfare to a woke corporation fleeing the nest it soiled absolutely enrages me.
Starbucks is relocating a significant portion of its operations from the communist carnival of Seattle to the state of Tennessee, which is paying Starbucks to bring its radical political agenda and employees to the conservative state. Thanks to Governor Bill Lee and the Tennessee State Funding Board, $30 million dollars is being redistributed from Tennessee taxpayers to the left-wing coffee purveyor. Unlike some corporate welfare, this isn’t even comprised of tax incentives. It is an 8-figure cash payment from the state to a corporation whose executives have shown nothing but spitting contempt for the values of the state it is relocating to.
Tennessee’s State Funding Board approved the $30 million payout during a meeting on May 20. State incentives would cover an average of $15,000 per job created.
I know plenty of Tennessee small business owners who could hire more actual Tennesseans if the first $15,000 of salary was subsidized by the state. How obscene is it that a small manufacturing plant in Murfreesboro, staffed by patriotic Christians, doesn’t get a dime in assistance when it expands and hires more employees, but a corporation like Starbucks that is openly contemptuous of Tennessee’s conservative values is getting paid to colonize the state with its woke agenda?
During the announcement, Gov. Bill Lee touted the state’s “fiscally conservative approach to business.”
If taking money from taxpayers and giving it to an activist left-wing corporation is a “fiscally conservative approach to business,” what might be considered fiscally irresponsible?
How woke is Starbucks? As documented in Unherd, “Like so many companies, the coffee giant was swept up in the political maelstrom of 2020 and 2021. It pledged $100 million for businesses focused on “advancing racial equity”. It allowed employees to wear activist clothing and accessories to work, provided that the clothing supported the Black Lives Matter movement. In many Starbucks stores, June Pride Month celebrations went from discreet lapel pins to wall-covering shrines.”
So Tennessee is reimbursing Starbucks $30 million of the $100 million the company shelled out to “advance racial equity.” Some Tennessee politicians are not happy about this, including U.S. Rep. John Rose, a Republican candidate to replace (term-limited) Bill Lee as governor. He called the Starbucks incentive "corporate welfare" that is "beyond the pale." Marsha Blackburn is the overwhelming favorite to win this year’s Republican gubernatorial primary, but she has not yet commented on the Starbucks payout. I recommend that she gets on the right side of this issue quickly. If not, John Rose may gain some traction.
A ray of hope is that many Starbucks employees don’t want to leave the comfort of the asylum they call home.
Starbucks office workers are reportedly balking at orders to relocate to the company’s new $100 million Nashville hub, with some left-leaning workers repulsed by the prospect of living and working in the capital of deep-red Tennessee.
The java giant has been struggling to persuade employees to move from Seattle — even after warning some they could lose their jobs if they refuse, Bloomberg News reported.
As I was typing this piece, I just noticed something significant that I had previously missed. Something stinks:
• Starbucks announced its new Tennessee operation in mid-April, and the employee ultimatums regarding relocation also occurred in April.
• It was several weeks later, on May 11, that the Tennessee State Funding Board issued a public notice of the upcoming May 20 meeting to vote on the $30 million handout. Public comment was limited to the day of the meeting, May 20. This was now a full month after Starbucks announced its Tennessee plans.
• If the state had not already committed the $30 million, the Funding Board could have simply voted “No” and it wouldn’t have made any difference, since Starbucks had already committed to the new Tennessee operation.
• If this was just a vote to formalize a previously agreed upon commitment of the $30 million, then how does this comport with the Tennessee Open Meeting Act. How did Governor Lee know he could promise a $30 million incentive to Starbucks if it hadn’t yet been debated in a forum open to the public?
I am not accusing the five members of the Tennessee State Funding Board of doing anything illegal. To the contrary, I am sure they have very good counsel who ensured that what they did is technically in accordance with state law. But that doesn’t make it right.
The Tennessee State Funding Board has five members entrusted with the authority and wisdom to redistribute money from taxpayers to corporate welfare recipients. Those members are:
1) Governor Bill Lee
2) Treasurer David Lillard
3) Comptroller Jason Mumpower
4) Finance & Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson
5) Secretary of State Tre Hargett
Perhaps if there is enough public revulsion from Tennessee taxpayers, these vulgar and unnecessary handouts to woke corporations will stop.
Good morning kids. Supposedly a "deal" of some sort is in the works or on the verge of being reached with the regime in Tehran to end hostilities. As I have stated repeatedly, I have the greatest respect and admiration for President Trump, but I cannot imagine any agreement that they would ever agree to that removes the hardline Islamic elements from power, even partially let alone completely. It is they who have terrorized and brutalized their own people and spilled rivers of blood all over the world in the cause of Islamic global conquest, quite a bit of it American, over the past 47 years thanks to the complicity/idiocy of Jimmy Carter in helping unleash the Mullahs on the world. And in that time allowing them to nearly develop a functioning nuclear weapon by stockpiling tons of enriched uranium and perfecting long range missiles that for now threaten the region but perhaps can soon reach much farther. Were it not for Israel's and America's military and covert operations to thwart all of that with Epic Fury and the IDF and ongoing Mossad's campaign
of liquidating Iranian scientists, an Iranian mushroom cloud might well have vaporized Tel Aviv, Dubai, Riyadh or Vatican City or even London or Washington DC by now.
There is no alternative than the absolute and unconditional surrender of the Mullahs. If not, then the aforementioned nightmare scenario might one day become a reality. Who could have ever imagined 9/11 until it happened? There is no doubt in my mind that had Bin Laden have nukes, NYC and DC would be a radioactive dead zone.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that the proposed agreement with Iran is “a surrender document.” And we appear to be “negotiating America’s unconditional surrender to Iran.” . . . because there’s literally no other option. Unless he wants to take over the whole country, because that actually would achieve regime change, it would end their nuclear program, it would reopen the strait. But you’re talking about using 300,000 Americans for a country that’s twice the size and population of Iraq. I don’t think even Ranger Pete Hegseth wants that. So the only other option is to sit down at the table and actually have a negotiation. Let’s just be honest, though, he’s not only lost the war, he’s losing the negotiation as well.”. . But, short of taking over Iran, “there’s literally no other option.” . . . Later, Moulton said that Trump “has a hope and a prayer that he might get some semblance of the nuclear deal that Obama handed to him.”
This mealy-(semen-encusted) mouthed scumbag finally lets slip what he and the traitorous bastards of the Democrat/Left want: America defeated/humiliated/destroyed and Iran to actually get an atomic weapon which is what Obama and his cohorts were nearly successful in delivering. The JCPOA along with billons in palletized cash sent to Iran during his 8 year reign of error got them very close to achieving nuclear capability.
Police reportedly responded to a call alleging the sound of gunshots had been heard at Barrett’s home, according to the same audio, which was shared on X by freelance journalist Andrew Leyden. In the audio, the dispatcher indicates police units are responding to “the suspicious noise” at a residence that has “24-hour security coverage for a high-priority resident of the county.”
Chris Rabb, a Pennsylvania House candidate backed by the "Squad" and other far-left figures, once called for the death penalty for corporate CEOs, whom he likened to "gang leaders." His words mirror increasingly violent rhetoric from the left directed at business leaders. In a 2005 blog post, Rabb said executives "should fry," citing a report that 300 CEOs were paid salaries and bonuses totaling $12 billion.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that the proposed agreement with Iran is “a surrender document.” And we appear to be “negotiating America’s unconditional surrender to Iran.” But, short of taking over Iran, “there’s literally no other option.” Moulton: ‘No Other Option’ But ‘Negotiating America’s Unconditional Surrender to Iran’
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Police reportedly responded to a call alleging the sound of gunshots had been heard at Barrett’s home, according to the same audio, which was shared on X by freelance journalist Andrew Leyden. In the audio, the dispatcher indicates police units are responding to “the suspicious noise” at a residence that has “24-hour security coverage for a high-priority resident of the county.” Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Reportedly ‘Swatted’
Chandee was facing imminent deportation until Governor Walz intervened. The decision to pardon Vang underscores Walz’s repeated willingness to block the deportation of violent criminals, consistently jeopardizing public safety and undermining law enforcement. Walz Pardons Criminal Alien to Sabotage Deportation.
‘It is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.’ Trump Admin Targets Big Immigration’s Legal Industrial Complex
Robert Spencer: The purpose of making fanciful claims such as the one this woman makes is to stymie efforts to resist Sharia or end Muslim migration into the U.S. It is there home, it has always been their home, and Sharia is as American as apple pie. . . What One Illinois Speaker Said About Islam and America Has People Talking
The charge that Jews cannot be trusted to give their allegiance to the state goes back 2000 years. Dual Loyalty?
Victor Davis Hanson: The medieval-style massacre of 1,200 Jews in their homes on Oct. 7, during a time of peace, should have increased awareness of the existential dangers Israel faced. Instead, it spawned a storm of antisemitism. Israel-haters’ selective outrage exposes the hypocrisy of their lies
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
According to the leftist media, every move that President Trump makes must be likened to any other act of evil or brutality that was ever recorded in history, no matter how ridiculous the comparison. Lawrence O’Donnell, host of The Last Word on the failing network MS NOW, followed this rule without hesitation on his Wednesday night broadcast. O’Donnell claimed, laughably, that “Donald Trump is desecrating the White House grounds to build a temple of violence,” as if Trump was some kind of Roman emperor. MS NSDAP Decries Trump's ‘Temple of Violence’ on White House Grounds
As government deficit spending diminishes economic growth, it pushes the nation’s economic output, the GDP, well below its potential. National Debt Reaches a Scary Milestone
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The decision allows the President’s executive order to remain in effect, potentially affecting mail-in voting processes during state primaries. The lawfare battle over election integrity is set to continue in Boston, Massachusetts, where the coalition of left-wing groups are pursuing a different lawsuit via the federal court. Judge Refuses to Block Trump Order on Mail-In Voting.
Jeffries apparently meant to celebrate the fact that the Knicks had made the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years, but instead, he got blasted for the pandering social media post because many Internet users felt that the photo appeared to have been altered in Photoshop to eliminate some of the 55-year-old politician’s wrinkles and changed the shape of his face to make him look younger, the New York Post reported. Hakeem Jeffries Mocked for Posting ‘Bizarre’ Facetuned Image of Himself in Knicks Hat
Californians have had the rare opportunity to hear two Democrats “expose” each other -- though often for the wrong reasons. Steyer vs. Becerra: California Screamin’
Just let Talarico keep playing to the woke coastal types who are more concerned with pronouns than whether Iran has nukes. If Paxton features a lot of that stuff in his campaign ads, even the most ardent Cornyn fans will probably find plenty of motivation to vote. James Talarico Is Playing to a National Audience That Won't Be Voting for Him
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The designations impose onerous sanctions on the gangs and their members, block them from keeping their assets in the United States or freeze assets already in the country, and make it illegal for American citizens to offer material support to them. In a statement on Thursday, the State Department explained that the PCC and Red Command pose a significant security threat both in Brazil and internationally and engage in violent narco-terrorism throughout South America, meriting the designation. Exclusive — U.S. State Department to Designate Brazil’s Top Criminal Gangs as Terrorist Groups
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Residents of Narva, NATO’s easternmost city, gathered along a promenade beneath a medieval Estonian castle May 9. But with their backs turned toward the European Union — Ukrainian and Estonian flags hanging from the fortress walls — the crowd’s attention was fixed across the river border on a bright display of Russian spectacle. Inside Russia’s Propaganda War In NATO’s Easternmost City
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The news comes amid U.S. strikes on Iran as President Donald Trump works to secure a peace deal and as Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) recently said Iran targets the U.S. every day via cyberattacks, according to Breitbart News. Report: Adversaries Target U.S. Military in War Zones by Using App Location Data
Fred Fleitz: Cutting the ODNI was only a start; lasting reform requires abolishing it outright and restoring CIA leadership of U.S. intelligence. (consider the next link before making that statement! - jjs) The Next DNI Must Finish the Job and Eliminate the ODNI
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
The ban is likely to improve the health of farmworkers and those living close to farms. Studies as far back as the 1980s have shown that farmworkers are twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease as non-farmworkers. The ban will likely increase pressure on federal regulators to reassess the pesticide’s safety at the national level. Despite the state-wide ban in Vermont, the pesticide remains one of the most widely used pesticides in the U.S. State Bans Pesticide Linked to Parkinson’s Disease.
“Stopping this Ebola transmission depends entirely on humanitarian access,” Tedros wrote in a message published on social media. “Yet ongoing clashes are driving mass displacement, pushing exposed contacts into overcrowded camps and severing critical containment corridors.” W.H.O. Chief Tedros: Ebola Contact Tracing in DR Congo ‘Nearly Impossible’
During a static fire test of the first stage tonight in preparation for the next launch scheduled for June 4), Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded just as the test began, destroying the first stage and much of the only launchpad the company has to launch this rocket. Blue Origin’s next New Glenn rocket explodes during static fire test on the launchpad
Just 66 percent of men age 20 and older were employed or actively seeking work as of April, according to data released earlier this month by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. That figure has dropped sharply from 73 percent in 2006 and now sits near levels last seen during the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis. One in Three American Men No Longer Working (how many are native born and not wetback invaders? - jjs)
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Anime conventions can get pretty wild, but when’s the last time you attended an event where cosplay models were selling actual “foot juice”, as in fruit juice from plastic buckets in which they had dipped their feet? Despite the product’s unconventional nature, the $10-15 price tag wasn’t enough to deter potential clients, and according to multiple reports, the foot juice sold out in less than an hour.
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Photos and videos from Parkon 2026 show young girls in cosplay holding up signs with foot juice offers while having their naked feet dipped in juice, and some even offering to let customers drink the juice dripping directly from their wet feet.
Yup - it's real. Go ahead and check out the video at the link.
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DJ Doof - This Date In Music History Edition
from thisdayinmusic.com
On this date in 1977: Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers played together for the first time in Paris, as part of the band Strontium 90 (with Mike Howlett). The three musicians would go on to form The Police that summer.
On this date in 1996: Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan was rushed to Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles after an apparent drug overdose. The singer was later arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin.
On this date in 1983: The four day US Festival '83' took place in California, featuring The Clash, U2, David Bowie, The Pretenders, Van Halen, Stray Cats, Men At Work, Judas Priest, Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson. INXS, Joe Walsh, Motley Crue and Ozzy Osbourne. Over 750,000 fans attended the festival.
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Judge Clears Way for Trump to Tighten Verification for Mail-In Votes; Scott Bessent Touts New IRS Rules to Identify Antifa's Funders; OMB Director Russ Vought Acts to Make Sure That Federal Grants Go to US Citizens Not Foreigners and Illegal Aliens
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A lot of #Winning.
Democrats actually opposed Trump's rules to tighten verification of mail-in votes by saying that if voter names were checked against lists of US citizens, Democrat voters would be barred from voting.
Yes. Yes they will.
That is the point. Your llegal alien hordes are not allowed to vote and they should be disqualified from voting.
But hey, you say this Never Ever Happens, so this should have no effect on Democrat vote totals.
Right?
The Democrats pretended they were worried about "inaccurate" citizenship lists but we all know they're terrified of accurate ones.
Besides, the judge ruled: Every single federal requirement is subject to some error in implementation but we don't rule them all unconstitutional, given that people have the right to appeal and have errors corrected.
Duh.
A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to implement his executive order tightening mail-in voting, slapping down Democrats' arguments for now that federal efforts to police voter rolls with citizenship checks was illegal.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointed jurist, ruled that Democrats failed to show they have standing at present to challenge the order or have suffered any harm that would warrant a preliminary injunction.
You'll love this: He ruled the Democrats had no standing to challenge the rules. They could establish no "harm" to themselves.
Nichols rejected several of the Democrats' arguments that Trump's executive order could disenfranchise millions of voters, including that creating state-by-state citizenship lists to check voter rolls would somehow be harmful, even if they were inaccurate.
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The judge also rejected the notion that the federal government sending information to the states about voters would somehow violate voters' privacy.
"Plaintiffs fail to demonstrate that such action--that is, the sharing of name, age, and residence information between and among government agencies, if already known to the federal government--would cause a harm sufficient to establish Article III standing," he ruled.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday highlighted changes to IRS reporting policy that would help the federal government identify the funding sources for Antifa.
The organization has faced considerable scrutiny in recent years amid its repeated civil disturbances and involvement in anti-law enforcement activities. Speaking from the White House, Bessent pointed to a change in policy that would require non-profits to identify their grant recipients.
The grant-subgrant system is set up to disguise Democrat money-laundering. Terrorists have members called "cleanskins" -- terrorists who have no known criminal record or association with terrorists. These "clean skins" are used to infiltrate organizations and pull levers in favor of terrorists.
(Note a "cleanskin" can also refer to an undercover cop who has no publicly-known association with cops, so he can be infiltrated into a criminal group.)
Likewise, Democrats have "cleanskin" NGOs that they can pour US taxpayer money into. And then these "clean" NGOs donate to dirty NGOs and straight up terrorist organizations -- or Chinese covid labs adding furin cleavage sites to viruses.
The Grantee/Subgrantee system is designed precisely so that Democrats can divert taxpayer money to illegal/antiamerican/pure Democrat pillager groups. They money is given to the "clean skin" NGOs, who then immediately send the money off to where it was always intended to go, the "dirty skin" groups.
Secretary Bessent tells me the FBI and Treasury Department will have "a lot to report" on their investigation into the funding of Antifa. He says their findings will come in the weeks and months ahead. pic.twitter.com/CTSKp06AHw
Unbelievably, there was no citizenship requirement for receiving US federal grants.
Now there is:
BREAKING: Russ Vought at OMB has just overhauled $1 TRILLION in federal grants by adding: Strict E-Verify requirements, English-language rules, and political appointee oversight to ensure taxpayer dollars go to American citizens first.
Toxic Incompetent Radical Leftwing Propagandists Are Finally S-Canned at 60 Minutes, and the Left is (You'll Never Guess!) Hysterical
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
2h
60 Minutes was genocided.
Lunatic Trash-Karen Sharyl Alfonsi threw her last hissy-fit over Bari Weiss holding up her hit-piece about CECOT to get comment from the object of her hit-piece -- the Trump Administration, of course -- and then publicly complained about her employers. (And probably did some leaking, but we'll just have to guess about that.)
One of her previous acts of Democrat Party Service was attacking Ron DeSantis for arranging a deal for the Magic Vaccine, which the media claimed was absolutely necessary for the survival of the species, to be made available through the large market chain Publix.
She asserted that DeSantis had made this deal in exchange for a $100,000 donation -- and would not take Democrats' word for it that they pitched and negotiated this deal with Publix themselves.
And ergo, the $100,000 donation was irrelevant.
Meanwhile, this ugly crone is claiming she was fired for her "honest" journalism.
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
3h
"Honest" -- like in her dishonest piece about Ron DeSantis and the Publix Supermarket chain, linking Publix being given a COVID vaccine contract in exchange for a $100,000 contribution to DeSantis?
Deceptive Editing: Alfonsi confronted Gov. about the Publix deal, but 60 Minutes edited his response by omitting the portion of his answer explaining that CVS and Walgreens were tied up administering vaccines in long-term care facilities at the time, and that Publix was simply the first pharmacy to volunteer and prove it was ready for the larger roll-out needed.
Florida's emergency management director -- a Democrat -- publicly stated that the decision to use Publix was made by his office, not the Governor, and that undermined entirely the conspiracy narrative that was the foundation of the 60 Minutes story.
Other Democrats in Florida and Publix pushed back against the story.
But that didn't slow Alfonsi or 60 Minutes down since De Santis was, at that time, considered to be the frontrunner for the GOP POTUS nomination in 2024.
"In a Sunday night tweet directed at "60 Minutes," Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz wrote, "I said this before and I'll say it again. [Publix] was recommended by [Florida Division of Emergency Management] and [Florida Department of Public Health]. Period! Full stop!"
"No one from the Governors office suggested Publix," Moskowitz added. "It's just absolute malarkey."
Is it that kind of "honest" journalism you are referring to??
A Democrat mayor of Palm Beach alled the story "intentionally false" as well, saying this wasn't just "bad information," it was a deliberate, calculated lie:
But she had a potential Republican presidential candidate to take down for her Democrat masters, and went forward with the false, defamatory propaganda anyway.
And for some reason, Bari Weiss had doubts about her credibility, honesty, and professionalism!
Here's her meltdown over being fired -- or, actually, these people aren't employees, so they're not fired.
Their contracts are just allowed to blissfully expire without renewal.
Dylan Byers
@DylanByers
May 27
NEW: Sharyn Alfonsi goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss:
"Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes.
Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over.
In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and "restructuring" to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.
Well, they're resorting to euphemisms because they consider in unprofessional to just tell the truth about you: You're a batshit crazy partisan who is too unattractive and probably has too checkered a past to go directly into Democrat politics so you work from the shadows in the media.
How's that? Is that better than the euphemism?
Weiss also let go of a 60 Minutes producer, and replaced him with Nick Bilton.
The media are screaming that he has no prior television journalistic experience even though he's been an investigative journalist at the NYT and Vanity Fair.
And they're screaming for simple turf-protection reasons: They have a guild and they don't want non-guild-members replacing them so that they lose their phoney-baloney jobs.
I've got five words for you: Learn to fucking code, bitches.
WATCH: CBS and @60Minutes excluded context from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in which he explains the steps his government took to make the decision to partner with Publix on vaccine distribution.
Muslim Man Shouts Allahu Akbar as He Stabs Three Citizens In Switzerland; a Leftist SWATs Amy Coney Barrett to Get Cops to Kill Her; a Man Threatens to Kill Erika Kirk and Blow Up Every TPUSA Event
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The red-green coalition continues killing us.
At some point, we're not going to put up with this any longer.
And then things will get interesting for the left.
And you should never wish to live in interesting times.
A leftist attempted to get cops to execute Amy Coney Barrett by calling in a fake report of a shooting at the residence, which of course causes cops to come armed and ready to kill any possible "attacker" on-scene.
Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
4h
Someone tried to get Amy Coney Barrett, her kids and husband killed last night. That's what swatting really is: Attempted murder. Cops come in guns blazing expecting a shootout. People who initiate these should go to prison for life. Thankfully, the cops talked with her security first and prevented a potential tragedy. The left has embraced evil.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
3h
🚨 HOLY CRAP! A leftist just tried to get Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and her family KILLED by SWATTING her, reporting "gunshots" at her house last night
Barrett notably signed onto the ruling against racial gerrymandering, which harms Dems.
Swatting = ATTEMPTED M*RDER
In 911 audio, they said: "Units responding to suspicious noise...unknown if it's going to be a swatting situation."
Whoever made the call committed an act of terrorism. Lock them up.
Police responded to a call for the sound of gunshots at the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett last night, but quickly realized it was a swatting call and cleared after meeting with her security detail. This is partial police audio, redacted pursuant to media… pic.twitter.com/fKKSTAVR6F
In Switzerland, a Maryland Man from Turkey, who has been under police watch since 2015 but never expelled from the country, shouted "allahu akbar" as he stabbed three people in front of a class of very young children.
Police say they don't know the motive -- but then say they know the motive, by saying he just has "mental health" issues.
🚨 UPDATE: A Muslim man just STABBED 3 people in Switzerland and police claim the motive is unclear
He YELLED "allahu akbar!" and went on a stabbing spree
The West DOES NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS
You invite these Muslim savages and they pillage your homeland!
A man has been arrested after three people were injured in a stabbing attack at a train station in Switzerland.
Police said the three victims - Swiss nationals aged 28, 43 and 52 - were hospitalised after the attack at Winterthur train station.
The suspect, a 31-year-old Swiss man, used a bladed weapon, they said, adding that the motive was under investigation.
Swiss man? Others say he's a Turk.
Switzerland's President Guy Parmelin said on social media he was "shocked by the terrorist attack this morning in Winterthur". "This deeply affects me," he added.
Mario Fehr, Canton Zurich's security director, said it was "clear from the scene that the motive for this act must be sought in the realm of radicalisation and extremism".
Marius Weyermann, commander of the Zurich cantonal police, said at a news conference with Fehr that the suspect lived in the area and had come to authorities' attention in 2015 for distributing Islamic State (IS) group propaganda.
No big deal. At least he doesn't vote for right-wing politicians.
He said that on Monday, the suspect was sent to a psychiatric hospital after he had presented himself at a police station, where he made "incoherent statements".
The next day he left the hospital. Officers took him back, and on Wednesday doctors certified that he no longer posed a danger to himself or others, he added.
Either a member of the far left, or a member of Candace Owens' cult. Which would also be a member of the far left:
BREAKING: Jacob Wenske, of San Antonio, has been arrested for allegedly threatening to K*LL Erika Kirk and bomb Turning Point USA events ahead of her upcoming women’s leadership summit.
Formerly Beloved British Series "Doctor Who" Is Now So Toxically Woke and Unpopular That No Actors Are Willing to Step Into the Role Formerly Beloved British Car Brand Jaguar Loses 99.4% Of Its Profit Year-Over-Year
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Who can say why. It's all a mystery.
The role has been cursed by wokeness, and now no actors want to play Doctor Who, because they don't want to be associated with the "baggage" of the previous seasons of woke poison.
Although the show is currently on a long unplanned hiatus, the BBC had planned a "Christmas" special-- which became a New Years Special during its woke years because the show didn't want to acknowledge Christmas*. But even the "Christmas" special is in doubt because they just can't find an actor to play Doctor Who.
This is probably due to the fact that they are determined to do more woke gender- and race-bending stunt casting but the potential DEI Doctors don't want to jump into this garbage swamp at any price.
The Doctor Who Christmas special could be exterminated as the BBC is allegedly unable to find a new lead star.
The show is in a state of flux after ending its latest series in May 2025 with the sudden departure of Ncuti Gatwa as the Time Lord.
The ungrateful gay immigrant flounced when he was asked to be a jury panelist for their boradcast of Eurovision. The rumor that went around was that she refused because Israel was a contestant. The "official" reasons for the sudden withdraw all seem like bullshit -- too tired! his schedule is so hectic! -- and they keep changing. Soon after he was announced to no longer be Doctor Who. Which suggests the BBC was sick of him after his horrible ratings. People with horrible ratings don't get to act like entitled divas for long.
Former companion Billie Piper appeared to replace Gatwa as the show's new Doctor, when the character underwent a regeneration at the end of the episode.
Piper's inclusion was a "very last-minute" decision, according to the star, and came after a sharp decline in viewership ratings. The BBC opted to put the show on hiatus for the remainder of 2025, meaning there was no festive special, but showrunner Russell T Davies wrote an episode, starring Piper, that was due to be released this December.
However, it's been reported that the special might be scrapped as bosses are struggling to find anyone to take on the permanent role of the 16th Doctor, as Piper's appearance will be for one episode only. Instead, the BBC would forge ahead with a new series airing Easter 2027.
"With less than seven months to go, [the special] looks like it's hanging in the balance," a source told The Sun.
"The problem is that they have found it difficult to find anyone who'll take on the part of the 16th Time Lord, partly because it now feels like a role that comes with all the baggage of the most recent series.
The source added: "There are fears that even if they do manage to pull something together, it is going to be a poor cousin to previous Christmas specials which have always been adored by fans." The BBC declined to comment.
Have they?
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"Rest assured, Doctor Who is going nowhere," Phillips said at the Edinburgh TV Festival, with Lindsay Salt, the BBC's director of drama, saying they were "committed" to bringing the show back.
What an unfortunate and revealing way to phrase that.
Phillips addressed a potential end to the BBC's "great" production partnership with Disney+, adding: "Going forward, with or without Disney, Doctor Who will still be on the BBC. The Tardis is going nowhere."
LOL. It's like she's subconsciously trying to admit the truth.
Gatwa, 32, said he left the programme because "it's a role that demands a lot of you, physically and emotionally and mentally".
And Judaically.
Speaking of woke disasters:
Remember Jaguar's aggressive repositioning from a car for wealthy men looking for a little speed and style to a transgender toaster for mentally-ill folx on welfare?
Their profits dropped, and this is not a joke, 99.4%.
The Guardian claims it's all due to Trump's tariffs (which are now a very reasonable 10%), a cyberattack, and generally poor conditions in the auto industry.
It has nothing to do with deciding that rich men were no longer the target clientele but rather transgender mutants living in public housing.
Jaguar Land Rover annual profit falls 99% after US tariffs and cyber-attack take toll
Britain's largest carmaker says sales also hit by competition in China as it publishes financial results
by Jasper Jolly
Jaguar Land Rover's annual profits have slumped by more than 99% as it counted the cost of US tariffs and a cyber-attack that disrupted its factories for months.
Britain's largest carmaker made only 14m pounds in profit before tax and exceptional items in the year to March, down from 2.5bn pounds the year before, according to financial results published on Thursday.
The manufacturer, which employs 33,000 people in the UK, suffered a series of blows as Donald Trump's automotive industry tariffs caused turmoil in its important export market.
That was followed by a damaging cyber-attack on the last day of August that forced the company to shut down most of its systems and factories for weeks, with disruption rippling on through the autumn.
The tariffs, which Trump raised to 25% before agreeing a deal for 10% for the UK, hit US demand for JLR's luxury cars, before supply of products was halted by the attack. As a result, revenues fell to 22.9bn pounds, down by more than a fifth compared with the previous 12 months.
Did anything happen to the brand that might have caused demand to fall, I wonder?
JLR also said sales were hit by competition in China, where a huge number of carmakers are introducing new products.
JLR was not alone in struggling with tough conditions within the automotive industry. The Japanese manufacturer Honda on Thursday reported its first annual loss in 70 years as a listed company.
Honda was forced to write off 1.6tn yen (7.4bn pounds) in investments in electric cars after Trump removed subsidies for battery vehicles, pushing it to a loss of 423bn yen.
PB Balaji, who took over as chief executive of JLR only a few weeks after the hack, said: "JLR faced a challenging year with revenue and profit affected by multiple headwinds, including a pause in production following the cyber incident."
However, he said the company "ended well" and had "come back resiliently".
Uh-huh. Your anus is very resilient but there's just so much pounding it can take.
It's similar to what doomed Doctor Who -- a bunch of gays and women in the marketing department decided that Men Should Not Have Things Men Like and remade the dependable old British brands into Stuff for Gurlz Gays and Gender-Fluids.
It's also similar in that those gender-free space mutants look like Ncuti Gatwa's version of Doctor Who:
I'm sure it's all a coincidence, though.
Leftwing brokebrained woke women continue to be more passionate fans of male homosexuals than male homosexuals themselves, and the "Modern Audience" continues to not exist.
Yet the billions-losing incompetents pushing this same failed idea year after year still have their phoney-baloney jobs, Because DEI.
DEI doesn't care about results. DEI is your church now.
*TBH, the move away from a Christmas special to a New Years special could have worked. The Doctor Who "Christmas" episodes of course had nothing to do about Christ or Christianity, and just were about corporate Christmas decorations and theming. Like an episode where London is attacked by alien space ships that look like Christmas stars, or when London is attacked by plastic Santa Claus statues, or when Doctor Who meets the literal Santa Clause. (Well it's some kind of dream bullshit.)
After six of these dopey Christmas Parody episodes, I stopped watching them, even when I was still watching Doctor Who. I never saw the Narnia parody one, for example. I realized that all "Christmas" episodes they would be absurd garbage about killer reindeer robots from space or interdimensional strangle-serpents that looked like silver garland.
But the fact that they made this change during Peak Wokeness made everyone suspect that they were just hostile to Christianity and would rather do episodes about Eid instead.
Fidel Castro's Daughter Doesn't Deny That Blackface-Wearing Gay Canadian Justin Trudeau Might Be Her Bastard Half-Brother
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He looks like Castro, and he's a stone-cold authoritarian communist bitch. Almost as if he was trying to impress the man he knew to be his father.
His mother was said to be enamored of Fidel Castro and would visit the country a lot. Whether her cuck husband Pierre Trudeau approved or objected impotently, we don't know.
Apparently this rumor has been "debunked." Allegedly Trudeau's mother did not meet Fidel Castro until 1976 -- allegedly -- and Castreau was born in 1971.
Alina Fernandez, the exiled daughter of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, was pressed on Tuesday night over claims that former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is her "half brother," and did little to put the long-running conspiracy theory to rest.
The claim, mentioned by President Donald Trump in his 2024 Save America book and pushed by online believers, alleges that Castro is Trudeau's real father, not Pierre Trudeau.
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"For years we've heard rumors that Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada , could be your half brother. What do you think about it?" she said.
Fernandez smiled and apparently unwilling to give up any family lore, she replied: "The only thing I can say is that his mother used to visit the country very often."
"Well that may be a tell then," the host followed. "I guess that's a half answer."
"Yes," her guest responded.
"Do you plan to call him and maybe find out?" Pavlich pressed.
"No, no," Fernandez said. "If he wants he's welcome but I won't, I won't. I think he keeps that to himself and you have to respect that."
Gavin Newsom: The State Will Tax the Enemies of the Democrat Party at a 100% Rate to Save Democracy
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Seizing the estates of political enemies. Sounds very democracy-savey.
He says they will change California law to seize 100% of recompense paid to Californians from the weaponization fund for Biden Regime abuses.
Well, I'll tell you, I've been sick of liberal state governments paying out jackpot awards to Antifa and BLM "protesters" who beat cops and get arrested in return. The Democrat Party is using taxpayer funds to pay its terrorist street militias to beat up cops and menace citizens.
So it's time for the federal government to impose a 100% tax on payouts to "protesters," especially those of Antifa, BLM, the John Brown Rifle Club, etc.
Tit for tat. If you want to go full Civil War -- We're your huckleberry. You'd be a daisy if you'd oblige us.
At least California will put the estates it seizes from political enemies of The Party to good and prudent use.
California Teaches Native Americans How to Light a Fire
The state has approved funding for "food sovereignty," owl counting, and "cultural burns."
California Governor Gavin Newsom has allocated millions of dollars to a program that funds Native American "food sovereignty," owl counting, and "cultural burns," in which tribal groups use traditional fire techniques to clear brush from the landscape and preserve their "close kinship" with plants, animals, and "other natural relatives."
Since 2023, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CAL FIRE, has awarded $24 million to tribal groups and other nonprofits as part of its "Tribal Wildfire Resilience" program. The man effectively overseeing the program, Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot, believes that California was founded on a "state-sanctioned policy of genocide" and that the state has pursued "decades of land dispossession, discrimination, and disconnection." The Newsom administration, he said, was making progress in returning the land to the "leadership of California Native American tribes."
As part of this commitment to "cultural burning," California has created separate fire-certification processes for nontribal and tribal populations. White, black, Latino, and Asian fire bosses must receive technical certifications, including a 40-hour burn-boss course and, in some cases, a federal certificate. "Cultural fire practitioners," by contrast, are certified through simple tribal recognition that a person has "substantial experience" burning for cultural purposes.
The "cultural burns" themselves follow various rituals. Some begin with drumming, sage burning, and a prayer. Attendees sometimes go around in a circle, introducing themselves to the land. In the words of Ron Goode, chief of the North Fork Mono Tribe, the land listens to the incantations, and the intention is "to make sure that everything on the landscape--Mother Earth, Creator, everybody--understands why we're there and what we're there for."
Then the burning begins. One tribal member uses a traditional elderberry fire stick instead of a modern lighter. Some use dry branches and cottonwood bundles as kindling. In the words of one tribal chief, "Fire gives life to the land, and everyone benefits from this living spirit."
While some of the "resiliency" funding has gone toward what appear to be legitimate fire-management projects, a careful examination of the state grant information reveals that much of the program operates as a slush fund for the tribes.
As Luke Skywalker said: "NOOOO! That can't be! That's IMPOSSIBLE!"
In recent years, CalFire has awarded grants that have dubious fire-management benefits: $1 million for a grant that will help a tribe provide "forest-themed ingredients" to tribe-owned restaurants; $599,000 for another to help renovate land for use as a Native American summer camp; $166,000 to one that will pay for "[t]ribal staff and members" to observe spotted owl nests; $746,000 to one supporting a tribe's "food sovereignty" and "Fire-Centered Climate Action Plan"; and $521,000 to one that will help a tribe maintain "close kinship" with plants, animals, and "other natural relatives such as water and fire."
Except they're building as many solar panels as miles of "high speed rail." While spending all the money they looted to build these Luxury Homeless Solar Panels, they've only built 10% of the already-overpriced units they perjured themselves in claiming they would build.
Inside Gavin Newsom's Solar Scam
California advocates wanted to provide solar panels to 1 million low-income housing residents. After ten years, the state is more than 900,000 short of that goal.
Governor Gavin Newsom has dismissed fossil fuels as "alternative energy," and wants to power California with, among other things, the sun. Through extensive mandates and extra energy costs for non-solar consumers, the Newsom administration has directed billions to building solar energy capacity.
The centerpiece of this initiative is the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) program. SOMAH began under Governor Jerry Brown, who signed legislation requiring a state commission to apportion up to $100 million a year from California's cap-and-trade program to pay for the installation of solar panels on apartment buildings in poor areas. Since then, California has devoted nearly $900 million to SOMAH, which the state hoped would create 300 megawatts of power by 2030 and advocates envisioned would create a million solar-using renters.
The results have been disastrous. Since 2015, the program has installed or reserved only 129 megawatts of solar power for approximately 65,600 residents--nowhere close to the target of 1 million "solar renters."
What happened? First, incompetence. For a decade, businesses and utilities have been forced to buy emissions credits, and while the state has lavished nearly $900 million on SOMAH, administrators designed the program so poorly that they have paid out only $131 million for solar installation.
As the program's largest contractor admitted in a draft audit, potential customers were turned off by the paperwork, bureaucracy, and red tape. "Initially, we found housing owners excited about the program," the contractor said, "but after a long and laborious process, they are much less enthusiastic."
That is an understatement. From the beginning, the SOMAH program has been plagued by delays and cancellations. More than 400 applications have wound up cancelled or withdrawn, or about a third of the total. On average, projects take three and a half years to make it through the program's gauntlet of paperwork and inspections.
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CEJA uses aggressive language to support its apparent goal of banning oil. "What's at stake is our very survival," its then-executive director said in 2021. "We must make the transition to 100 percent clean energy and bring all communities along to avoid a devastating climate apartheid."
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The other main beneficiary of the SOMAH program is a San Francisco-based corporation called Sunrun Inc., which bills itself as the country's largest solar provider and has been the contractor for 78 percent of all SOMAH projects. The company has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to political candidates--including $50,000 to Gavin Newsom's campaigns--and has employed an army of lobbyists in Sacramento.
Newsom, in turn, has packed his administration with former Sunrun employees. The governor appointed the company's public policy manager to the California Energy Commission and appointed its former chief policy officer to a regional water quality control board. In recent years, Sunrun representatives have met with government regulators' offices to discuss SOMAH, including last December, when the company supported efforts to expand the program.
SOMAH and Sunrun did not respond to requests for comment.
Maybe the federal government should slap a 100% tax on California's payouts to different voting blocs whose votes it's buying.
DOJ Now Investigating Obvious Perjurer For, Get This, Obvous Perjury
—Disinformation Expert Ace
My first reaction to hearing about the DOJ investigating the perjurious elderly lunatic whore was negative. I didn't like the "optics" of the DOJ investigating Trump's enemies.
But then I remembered the context: The Democrats turned the entire prosecutorial network, state and federal, into a machine for prosecuting Trump and his allies and even the lawyers defending Trump and his allies from their prosecutions.
Let me posit: It would be criminal to not use the prosecutorial resources of the country to prosecute Democrats and their lunatic fabulists.
We have been told many times that "No one is above the law."
And that includes Democrats, who are actually criminals. The only reason we weren't routinely arresting and jailing Democrats was the prudential consideration that jailing the political opposition, even when they were criminals in league with foreign powers and poisonous anti-American terrorist groups, was that prosecuting your political opponents, even when warranted, would kick off a cycle of each party attempting to jail each other each time the White House changed hands.
But they already began this cycle. And they've already announced their criminal intention to prosecute everyone associated with Trump, and possibly just his voters and supporters, the moment they can steal another election.
Given these facts, we have no choice but to adapt to the new poisonous reality the Democrats have created and use the machinery of political prosecutions against them.
From David Strom, although she clearly lied about the entire sham story -- and ripped it off from an episode of Law & Order: SVU her mentally-demented mind remembered -- she's being specifically investigated for lying about being paid to bring charges against Trump.
She straight-up lied about her expenses being paid by deranged communist billionaire Reid Hoffman, who desperately needs some prosecutorial resources devoted to him as well.
Prosecutors' theory hinges on a 2022 deposition statement by Carroll, 82, that she received no outside funding for her lawsuit, though it was later revealed that billionaire Reid Hoffman had paid some legal fees and expenses.
It's not a theory, it's a fact, and a crime. She lied about this precisely because admitting it would hurt the paid effort to get Trump. Motive and credibility are material facts in court, and she deliberately perjured herself to create a false air of credibility.
Strom also links this video of the demented lunatic whore giggling and laughing about consulting with fashion makeover experts to make her look "fuckable" so the idea of Trump being overcome by lust for her -- even when she was already an old woman, and had been weird-looking and unattractive since birth -- would seem possible.
"It was all a trick," she giggles about the attempt to make her look less like a shriveled mummy.
Reminder…
This is when E. Jean Carroll, the woman who accused President Trump of Raping her, says in order to convince the jury, a group of professionals tried to make her look more “Fuckable” and admits “It was all just Trick”
Yeah I know that calling rape "sexy" and giggling about this alleged rape may sound like something a real victim of rape wouldn't do, but you have to remember, the Me Too Grifter Complex has assured us that anything a female accuser does, no matter how intuitively and obviously false it seems, is Akshually a totally normal symptom of being a Sexual Assault Survivor.
Except if it's a woman accusing a Democrat, like Tara Reade. In that case, her history of not paying bills suddenly becomes proof that The Bitch Is Lying.
Crow Milestone: Though I had a crow visitor, it was just the one crow. I knew there were dozens of crows in the area and I've been wondering why they don't show up for the spread I put out for them every morning.
Yesterday, I believed that a second crow had come. This one was noticeably smaller than my usual visitor so I guessed it was his mate. They seemed to be two different crows because while they didn't both appear at the same time, they kept coming to the deck and flying back to the roost too quickly, I thought, to be a single crow. It seemed that it had to be a tag-team effort.
Today I got confirmation of that, as both crows, the bigger male and smaller female, both came at the same time.
How are you?
BTW I've said this before, but the crow caller doesn't really work.
I am agnostic on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As Sefton and I discussed on our recent podcast, AI can be useful, but it certainly isn't ready for prime time, and it can also be overbearing and immensely irritating.
That's because the hysteria in corporate America about inserting AI into absolutely everything has become ridiculous. Instead of rolling it out into their businesses as needs and opportunities arise, many companies are shoehorning it into every part of their operations, including most annoyingly, customer service. Sending an email to a company with a question or issue about a product or service shouldn't become an exercise in futility as one wades thorough the often nonsensical responses of an AI system. AI phone systems are particularly annoying, especially since its ability to provide meaningful assistance is in its infancy. Does one really have to wade through three minutes of perky AI voices just to speak to a human, or even worse, leave a message because "Call volume is higher than average?"
I am not a luddite...AI absolutely has its uses, and is becoming a powerful tool, in particular in technical fields where the prompts are tailored, and the databases are specified. And it can be a superb web search engine...sifting through the millions of pages of nonsense to get useful information.
But it has become so pervasive that I find myself reflexively rejecting its presence...disabling it whenever I can, or simply moving on to other, more human-friendly companies and websites that don't shove AI in my face.
DuckDuckGo, which positions itself as a privacy-focused alternative to Google, has experienced a significant increase in user adoption following the search giant’s announcement of major changes to its search platform that heavily incorporate AI.
TechCrunch reports that DuckDuckGo claims that U.S. app installs increased by an average of 18.1 percent week-over-week during the period from May 20 to May 25, compared to the previous week of May 13 to May 18. The growth was sustained for six consecutive days and reached a peak of 30.5 percent on May 25. On iOS devices specifically, the rate of installation was even more dramatic, with week-over-week growth averaging 33 percent and peaking at 69.9 percent.
The surge in interest comes in direct response to Google’s announcement at its annual I/O developer conference that AI would take over its search engine, as previously reported by Breitbart News:
This isn't an endorsement of DuckDuckGo. But it's a great example of what many people are doing in every facet of our technological lives. And it reminds me of the EV craze! Auto companies built EVs at a frantic pace, carefully ignoring the reality that their customers simply didn't want them. As Buck Throckmorton has ably demonstrated on these pages over the last few years, the EV insanity has come crashing to earth, because of the immutable laws of economics.
My guess is that AI will find its niche and become an indispensable tool for certain industries and certain people (it already is for many!), but it will be nothing more than an occasionally useful tool for most people.
Will it take over the world? Probably not. The last time I checked, AI couldn't repair an air conditioner or fix the plumbing or frame a house. It can make fun videos though!
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Mamdani announced that he was going to seize rental properties from landlords who have not maintained them properly, and hand over ownership not to the city government, but to supposedly impartial players and fair dealers such as “community land trusts” and “non-profits.” New York City Council member Vickie Paladino, one of Mamdani’s most vociferous and insightful critics, explains: “The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point. The idea here is to build up Zohran’s DSA-connected nonprofits with a multibillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets — New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get. Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario.”
...Mamdani, however, appears to be both a convinced Marxist and a devout Muslim. There is no real contradiction here; certainly Karl Marx himself made atheism a cornerstone of his secular religion, but Communism has always found a ready partner in Islam. This is because they have a deep kinship: both are authoritarian, totalitarian systems that impose draconian punishments for dissidents. Both deny the freedom of speech and other indispensable elements of a free society.
Also, once his Marxist comrades control New York City’s housing market, who will get the housing? Not political undesirables, i.e., patriots. Instead, Muslim migrants, including an unknowable number of criminals and jihadis, and others who will help the leftist/Islamic alliance stay in power, will receive preferment.
Sadly I still have a number of friends, and two who are so insufferably liberal that I consider them now merely acquaintances. They live in a very expensive upper west side Co-op and I hate to wish it upon them but I do hope they get what they vote for good and hard. Maybe then they'll wake up, but considering they voted for Dinkins and DeBolshevik while denigrating anything and everything even slightly to the right of even Ed Koch, well so be it. And now I'm picturing the scene from Dr. Zhivago where the Bolshvik apparatchiks are confiscating the wealthy Ralph Richardson's home and moving scores of bedraggled poor people in, "In the name of the people." of course he protests that "He is one of the people," and is quickly silenced by Omar Sharif before Tom Courtenay can drag the old fool out and shoot him as a counter-revolutionary.
All that said, it likely won't be long before one or all of President Trump's properties will be condemned, and then seized and handed over to Mamdani's commie cronies in the name of social justice, I assume at or not long after 12:01:00 on 1/21/29, if Mamdani is still mayor or one of his cronies succeeds him.
On a not unrelated note, just north of the border in Canada, also well on the way to Islamo/Communist control, we had this disturbing story...
A doctor in Ontario, Canada, allegedly evaluated a man for assisted death outside a Tim Hortons and, months later, drove him to the building where he died.
The patient was 45-year-old Thomas Dillon, who lived with Crohn’s disease along with mental illness and addiction, according to the National Post, citing The Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper that first reported the case and identified Dillon as the subject of one complaint. A coroner’s review of an anonymized 2024 case the reporting connects to Dillon described a man who battled addiction, struggled to keep a job, found relationships difficult and leaned on family for housing and money. Dr. James MacLean and a second clinician allegedly approved Dillon for assisted death under Track 2, a category for people whose deaths are not near but who endure intolerable suffering from a serious, untreatable condition. (RELATED: Canada Reportedly Set To Surpass 100,000 Assisted Suicides) MacLean allegedly ran the eligibility check outside the coffee shop on June 27, 2023, and traded dozens of texts with Dillon as they planned the death, according to The Globe and Mail. On Jan. 29, 2024, the two met again at the restaurant, and MacLean drove him to an industrial site where the dead are prepared for funeral homes. Dillon’s family told the outlet his wish to die came from mental illness, not the bowel disease. In a separate complaint, MacLean allegedly failed to provide one of three required drugs during an assisted death, the National Post reported. After he declared the patient dead and left the residence, the man started breathing again on his own. MacLean came back and finished the procedure, according to the Globe and Mail. A reviewer determined MacLean fell short of professional standards in five of 20 files examined, the National Post reported. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) issued a verbal caution and ordered six months of clinical supervision, chart audits and remedial training. He keeps his license and can still perform assisted deaths.
It won't be long before Crohn's disease is joined by Islamophobia and "hate speech" as a justification for doctors to euthanize people the state deems as a threat to themselves and to THE PEOPLE
So, the party of "Looters and Shooters" as Ace labeled them. Well, there's looting and shooting and then there's the double dose of nightmare fuel highlighted above.
The official, National Security Council Deputy Secretary Ali Baqeri, claimed instead that the talks were focusing on reopening commercial transit in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian terror state has effectively made normal commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz impossible since March, threatening to attack random ships to disrupt the global economy. Iran Claims U.S. Talks Don’t Include Enriched Uranium Stockpile
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Wherever in history his Marxist prescriptions have been applied, misery and tyranny follow — from Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot, 100 million deaths were caused by communist regimes in the 20th century alone. This is a lesson the 34-year-old nepo baby appears to have missed — or doesn’t care to heed because the revolution is never about improving the lot of the downtrodden. It’s about seizing power. Miranda Devine: History shows that Mamdani’s dangerous plan to seize property from landlords only leads to misery and tyranny
Take a look at why Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won their elections, and then look at Texas Senate candidate James Talarico. The Democrats’ Luciferian Beauty Play
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that there are plans being drawn up to say that in “sanctuary cities, where the local, radical left Democrats aren’t allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities either.” Mullin: We’re Drawing Up Plans to Stop Processing International Flights in Sanctuary Cities
The policy has been implemented in response to reports that over three million active cases are awaiting verdicts. According to Congress, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to deport approximately one million people between 2026 and 2027. The agency will also hold at least 99,000 people in detention centers. This decision follows growing pressure from within the Trump coalition to expedite mass deportations. Back in April, the Mass Deportation Coalition pushed President Trump to go further on mass deportations. Reformed Immigration Courts Accelerate Deportations with Mass Hearings.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has established a National Fraud Enforcement Division, which has uncovered $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent contracts. Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration identified 562,000 fraudulent loans amounting to roughly $22 billion. Furthermore, over 10,000 suspected fraudulent immigration student work programs were discovered, along with $60 million in student loan fraud. In December last year, research from the Center for Immigration Studies revealed that approximately 80 percent of Somali refugee-headed households in Minnesota are on at least one form of welfare, further underscoring the vast extent of waste attributable to just one small fraction of the U.S. population. Fraud Crackdown Could End Up Balancing the Budget: Miller.
A former high-ranking CIA official who allegedly lied about his credentials to secure $77,000 in bogus military leave was busted after FBI agents found a mind-blowing fortune, including $40 million worth of gold bars, hidden inside his Virginia home. The feds conducted a raid at the residence of David Rush last week, uncovering a staggering 303 gold bars, $2 million in cash and nearly three dozen luxury Rolex watches, according to court documents. Rush, until recently a “senior executive service-level employee” at the CIA, reportedly requested the massive haul of gold and foreign currency for “work-related expenses” between November and March. Former CIA official arrested after feds find $40M worth of gold bars stashed at his home: report
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Hamawy said in a 1996 interview that he had passed out humanitarian supplies around Bosnia two years earlier for the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), the outlet reported, citing the archived story from the Newark Star-Ledger. The U.S. government and United Nations (UN) later identified the Illinois-based foundation as a clandestine funding source for Al-Qaida and 9/11 architect Osama bin Laden. (RELATED: Pro-Mamdani PAC Took Donation From Islamist Cleric Who Vouched For Terror Plot Mastermind) Bro-Fo Omar-Backed New Jersey Democrat Candidate Reportedly Volunteered For Al-Qaida Affiliate
In addition to trying to imbue Talarico with gravitas that he doesn't have, the Democrats' flying monkeys in the mainstream media will keep making up stuff about a MAGA rift and Republican disenchantment with President Trump. For now, if it is just Susan Collins, and — I'm guessing here — John Thune, and Lisa Murkowski who have had their delicate squish sensibilities offended by Cornyn's ouster, then the president is knocking it out of the park. NYT Looks for Bitterness With Trump in GOP After Cornyn Loss, Finds Only Susan Collins
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
California advocates wanted to provide solar panels to 1 million low-income housing residents. After ten years, the state is more than 900,000 short of that goal. Inside Gavin Newsom’s Solar Scam
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass not only has to contend with the many scandals of her disastrous record in the city, luridly lit by arson, homelessness, and crime, but she also seemingly broke state and local electioneering laws. Here's Exactly How Karen Bass Broke an Electioneering Law
In a not-so different time and age, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) would still be considered one of the good guys: As a pro-life conservative who voted with President Donald Trump 99.2% of the time, just a generation earlier, he would’ve been lauded as one of our most staunchly conservative, reliably Republican senators. John Cornyn Survived 42 Years in Politics — Until MAGA Changed the Rules
Trump’s continued success in the primaries, unseating longtime establishment incumbent John Cornyn in favor of America First stalwart Ken Paxton, underscores the enduring, transformative power of the MAGA movement, challenging narratives that its brand of populism, which includes Reform UK, is waning. POTUS Lands 118/118 Primary Victories as Musk’s UK Party Claims Trumpism is ‘Defeated.’
“After years of weak globalists and elitists leading our party, President Trump transformed the GOP into the party of the working class,” Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) told The Post Wednesday. “Newsflash to those who still have not caught on: Support the America First agenda or lose your election.” Trump boasts perfect endorsement record in 118 GOP primaries so far in 2026
[so-called quote-unquote] “President Biden cooperated fully with Special Counsel Hur, and agreed to provide audiotapes of conversations with his biographer for a book about his deceased son on the condition that they would not be made public,” Biden spokesperson TJ Ducklo said in a statement this month. “The DOJ themselves have said these tapes serve no public interest.” Joe Biden Sues Trump DOJ to Bar Release of Recordings with Biographer
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
While long periods of unbroken power by Prime Ministers was long the norm in the United Kingdom with Margaret Thatcher in office 11½ years, Tony Blair 10 years, and John Major 6½ years, in the past decade the speed of change has been rapid. Rishi Sunak remained in office less than two years and present incumbent Sir Keir Starmer already has the sharks circling, with talk of an impending coup filling every newspaper for weeks. General Election Now Says Farage as Labour Government Moves to Change Prime Minister
The action adds to a list of legal troubles for the Sánchez government. The National Court indicted Ana Fuentes — the party’s finance manager since 2021 — accusing her of taking part in a scheme to discredit government critics, Politico reported. The same court charged former Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero a week earlier over the 2021 Plus Ultra airlines bailout, the outlet reported. Spain’s Cops Raid Ruling Socialist Party HQ Amid Corruption Scandal
Of course, Rubio is undeterred by any of this propagandistic chatter. During Wednesday's Cabinet meeting, the president asked the secretary to say a few words on Cuba. He didn't say anything particularly new, just that we want what's best for the Cuban people and that having a failed state so close to our shores is a threat to our national security. Agreed. Cuba Falling: Desperate Times Call for Desperately Attacking Rubio
French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that the European Union (EU) must “accept protective measures, safeguard measures” such as an EU equivalent of U.S. Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, according to Politico. Europe Seemingly Comes Around To Trump’s China Stance
...Well, maybe take a statement like that one with several grains of salt. While ISW's reporting is rock solid — everything they post in their daily Russo-Ukraine War updates is open-source and verifiable — the organization's analysis can be somewhat (ahem) less reliable. Ukraine War Enters 'A New Phase'
Speaking with Euronews, Kachka asserted that E.U. membership for Ukraine is a “starting point” for all discussions about the country’s figure. He argued that there are “no alternatives for the fast, merit-based, but full membership in the European Union.” Ukraine Deputy PM: ‘No Alternative to Full E.U. Membership’
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), an NIH lab, “conducts studies on some of the world’s most dangerous diseases, meaning even small lapses could put Montana communities at risk,” Sheehy said in a press release, Tuesday. Even more concerning are reports that a senior RML scientist allegedly attempted to smuggle dozens of vials of VHF [viral hemorrhagic fever] into the United States from Africa in January and lied to customs officials about their contents. Sen. Sheehy Calls for IG Investigation of Montana Research Lab After Lapses Involving Deadly Viruses
Next up will be Booster 20 and Ship 40 for Flight 13. This mission may launch in the July-August timeframe, pending testing and any mitigation efforts relating to the issues found during Flight 12. The launch pad appears to be in good shape, removing it from being a potential bottleneck to Booster 20’s Static Fire test, although that is not expected for weeks. A review of what happened and what’s next for Starship/Superheavy
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The MiniMicro is a virtual retrocomputer programmed in a rather simple and elegant language called Miniscript. And the whole thing runs run in your browser.
Indeed they've used the lowest of the low, the Core 3 304, which has one performance core and four efficiency cores, rather like Apple's MacBook Neo. But performance is passable if you're not trying to do anything demanding of the processor or the graphics - the 304 has half the graphics performance of all the other models in the family.
All three models include 10Gb Ethernet, which is an interesting improvement.
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Police in Louisiana were called to help round up a mystery emu spotted wandering the city streets.
The Duson Police Department said on social media that officers responded Wednesday to help the Lafayette Animal Shelter & Care Center wrangle a loose emu.
"Anyone missing an Emu? ID# 118962 found around the 300 block of B Robin in Duson," the shelter wrote on Facebook. "We don't know the sex. It's not housebroken. Someone please call us 337-291-5644 or come by to reclaim -- because our team and the dogs are very confused."
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I have no idea what these words mean in this order. I read the article and feel dumber for having done so. Naturally, that means I decided to share with you.
China's Tiangong Space Station is currently occupied by a group of artificial embryos, marking a major step in the quest to understand the ins and outs of reproduction in space. And while none of the embryo-like structures will ever develop into an actual person, the experiment should at least provide us with new insights into the impact of microgravity on early human development.
Previous research has shown that human, pig, and mouse sperm become disoriented in microgravity and are therefore less likely to be able to navigate the reproductive tract. A separate study found that jellyfish who spend their youth - or polyp stage - in space tend to experience vertigo when brought back to Earth, struggling to swim in a coherent manner.
On the other hand, mouse sperm that was sent to the ISS has been successfully used to rear healthy pups on Earth, suggesting that exposure to cosmic radiation may not cause harmful levels of DNA damage. Mouse embryos were also seen to develop normally onboard the ISS for a period of four days, eventually becoming blastocysts - collections of cells that later develop into the fetus and placenta.
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Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.
He's referring to three mass attacks committed by white men in, oh, the past six or eight years. There were a huge number of mass shootings and bombings he had to skip over to cherry pick three committed by white men. Which kind of makes me think that "white men" are not the greatest terrorist threat in our country.
No, I doubt he'll be a guest on Tucker Carlson. The only thing that Tucker clings to that he claims makes him "conservative" is a palpable hatred of gays. Any time there's a communist enslaving their population and executing dissenters and conservatives, Tucker praises that dictator by saying "at least he represses the homos!"
Podcast: CBD and J.J. Sefton discuss the newest iteration of the Iranian negotiations, with the hope that the President will stick to his guns and get rid of the nuclear material, Minneapolis mayor Frey is scum, and an idiot, Artificial Intelligence, and more!
Polls close in Texas at 7pm local (8pm for the East Coast). Vote the RINO out.
Those of you who are longtime Not Watchers of Stephen Colbert will not enjoy this flashback of Colbert dancing with Chuck Schumer while wearing ostentatious covid masks
Rush Limbaugh was an innovator in so many ways, including being among the first to not watch Stephen Colbert
DNI Tulsi Gabbard tenders her resignation for June 30, says her husband has been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer and she will have to help him through this
Podcast: CBD and Jim Lakely of The Heartland Institute chat about Heartland's two recent discussions: The affordability crisis in America, and The UN retreating from their most maniacal climate projections. Along the way we talk Democrat insanity and the changing electoral map...and more!
After threatening that the "clock is ticking" for renewed strikes on Iran, Trump once again calls them off to give negotiating a chance. I can't even cover this any more. It's embarrassing. It's like covering the endless negotiations over DHS funding. Trump is going to drag this out through the midterms and then lose them.
Note to the president: At some point, allowing the Regime to remain in power without actually forcing them to give up nukes is just a back-door, unacknowledged renewal of the Obama policy. Well, I guess we just have to wait for their economy to collapse and their troops to desert.
Podcast: Sefton and CBD are joined by Jeff Carter, candidate for NV treasurer, and seasoned finance professional, for a discussion of the issues facing Nevadans, and the larger financial challenges in America.
Few people remember that Norm MacDonald began his career as a ventriloquist MacDonald's old partner Adam Egot revealed that MacDonald repurposed a bit with one of his ventriloquist dolls -- that he was a "bad guy" who "didn't believe the Holocaust happened" -- for the Norm MacDonald show, in which he claimed Egot didn't believe in the Holocaust.
Funniest thing I've read about the Virginia mess. Back when they were hustling the referendum through the assembly both Senators, Warner and Kaine, advised them to go slow and play by the rules. Louise Lucas said she respected them but didn't need advice from the "cuck chair" in the corner. The gerrymandering was overturned and Louise is heading for the big house. Edward G. Robinson voice "where's your cuck now?"
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"Ahhhhh ahh I put my career on the line for Louise Lucas and Jay Jones thinking they'd vault me into presidential contention and we ended up costing Democrats 20 House seats and unleashing a Reverse Dobbs ahhhhh ahhh"
