Is This An ONT Which I See Before Me, The Handle Towards My Hand?

—WeirdDave

Evening Horde! Been rainy down here lately, how's the weather in your neck of the woods? Everyone in Tampa is dead.

I'm Gonna Live Forever!

Anti-Aging Cocktail Extends Mouse Lifespan by About 30 Percent

Scientists in Europe have tested an anti-aging drug cocktail in mice and found that it extended the animals' lifespans by around 30 percent. The mice stayed healthier for longer too, with less chronic inflammation and delayed cancer onset.

The two drugs are rapamycin and trametinib, which are both used to treat different types of cancer. Rapamycin is also often used to prevent organ rejection, and has shown promise in extending lifespans in animal tests. Trametinib, meanwhile, has been shown to extend the lifespan of fruit flies, but whether that worked in larger animals remained to be seen.

So for a new study, a research team led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany investigated how both drugs, on their own and together, could extend lifespan in mice.

Huh. Maybe soon it will be normal to live to be over 100. The article says that there are quality-of-life benefits too.

Fail!

31 Hysterical Fails From Last Week

I've been trying for years to buy one of those dividers you put between orders in the checkout line at the supermarket, but the cashiers keep putting it back.

Crime Spree

Florida Man Convicted For Pretending To Be Flight Attendant To Take 120 Free Flights

Some people pay for their flights with money. Some use travel card reward points. Others use frequent-flyer miles. Apparently, though, if you use "pretending to be a flight attendant" to get free flights, that's a crime? You wouldn't think that would be the case, but a federal jury just convicted Florida's Tiron Alexander for doing exactly that, finding him guilty on charges of wire fraud and entering into a secure area of an airport by false pretenses. According to the Department of Justice, Alexander took 34 free flights on one airline but booked more than 120 flights before he was caught.

So, how did he do it? He used airline web portals meant for pilots and flight attendants and then provided false "employer, date of hire, and badge number information." He also varied which airlines he claimed to work for, using about 30 different badge numbers across seven airlines. He also posed as a flight attendant on three other airlines. Perhaps most surprisingly, he was able to keep his scheme going for six years, beginning in 2018 and continuing through 2024, when he was ultimately caught. That means he flew for free, taking more than 100 flights, for six years, and no one noticed until just last year.

Pretty slick.

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Fight! Fight! Fight!

Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate

In a historical spat that could be subtitled “1066 with knobs on”, two medieval experts are engaged in a battle over how many male genitalia are embroidered into the Bayeux tapestry. The Oxford professor George Garnett drew worldwide interest six years ago when he announced he had totted up 93 penises stitched into the embroidered account of the Norman conquest of England.

According to Garnett, 88 of the male appendages are attached to horses and the remainder to human figures.

Now, the historian and Bayeux tapestry scholar Dr Christopher Monk – known as the Medieval Monk – believes he has found a 94th.

Whichever one of them winds up being right will be the cock-of-the-walk.

Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones

A Royal Skeleton in the Chapel

In June 1925 a sarcophagus was discovered in Dorset’s Sherborne Abbey and widely reported to be that of ‘Ethelbert’, a ninth-century king of Wessex. Decades of speculation followed, before, in 1952, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England dated the sarcophagus to the 13th century. This should have laid the issue to rest – but the tradition is still alive and well today.

Æthelberht and his brother Æthelbald, both now overshadowed by their younger sibling Ælfred (‘the Great’), were the third and second sons of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex. Both ruled briefly and relatively uneventfully in the mid-ninth century. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that Æthelbald was buried ‘at Sherborne’, and Ælfred’s biographer, Asser, wrote that when Æthelberht too ‘went the way of all flesh’, he was ‘interred in honorable wise at Sherborne, by the side of his brother’. This much is rarely disputed.

Pretty big fight over some old bones.

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Unruly Nature Cafe

—Ace

The West
via Whisky Jack/@whiskyjackburns
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No one can resist petting a bunny.

Rodent run.

A duck and dog have put aside their instinctual animosity.

Bonsai forest.

Little bird (?) sure is a tough guy.

Compilation of encounters with the local fauna in Australia. Do not watch if you're afraid of spiders. One spider spits venom at the photographer behind the wheel of a car. He's okay because the window was up. But that spider spitter had bad intent.

Meanwhile, Florida has a competing weird ecosystem.

And Nepal has its wildlife quirks as well.

Sea lions say: Locals only, tourist!

Liberating beagles from Fauci's disgusting torture labs.

Duet with violin and bird.

Unruly baby elephant wants to make friends with your car.

ICYMI: Baby elephants just being goofs.

And so the cycle of violence continues: A mama bear teaches her cub to be out-of-control.

Quick Hits

—Ace

At least 11 cop cars were burned in Brooklyn as part of the Democrat-Media Party's nationwide Mostly Peaceful Riots.

Arsonists torched at least 11 NYPD vehicles in a targeted attack in a Brooklyn parking lot early Thursday -- with undetonated explosive devices also found after two masked suspects were seen running away, police and sources said.

Police and FDNY responded to a report of multiple vehicles ablaze at a lot in Bushwick at the intersection of Central and DeKalb avenues -- just a block from the 83rd Precinct station house -- around 1:30 a.m. Thursday.

Mayor Eric Adams said at an unrelated press conference that 11 vehicles were damaged and 14 were impacted. No injuries were reported.

Cops also discovered three incendiary devices that did not go off placed on cars in the lot soon after two people wearing masks and gloves were seen running away, sources said.

A socialist Muslim who wants to defund the police and turn subway stations into homeless shelters -- which I guess they already are -- has taken the lead in New York City's mayoral race, which is good, because we need a leftist city to completely collapse if we're ever to see a return to sanity.

The Muslim socialist got AOC's endorsement. Obviously.

Zohran Mamdani, the young democratic socialist who has been rising in the mayor's race, is now ahead of Andrew Cuomo with just two weeks until the Democratic primary, a new poll reviewed in full by POLITICO found.

The survey, conducted by Public Policy Polling for Democrat Justin Brannan's city comptroller campaign, found Mamdani beating Cuomo 35 percent to 31 percent -- a difference that is narrowly within the 4.1 percent margin of error.

Cuomo has been the constant frontrunner since his March 1 entrance into the race to oust Mayor Eric Adams, with most publicly released polls showing him with comfortable leads. This new survey, which did not include a ranked-choice voting simulation, stands to signal a re-ordering of the highly unusual contest ahead of the June 24 election.

The poll of 573 likely Democratic voters was conducted between June 6 and June 7 -- after nine candidates faced off in the first televised debate. The following day, June 5, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Mamdani, lending political star power to his campaign.

John Carpenter was a prophet.

The alternative is arguably even worse.

Mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo admitted Thursday that he not only saw a controversial report on nursing home COVID deaths while he was governor, but may have doctored the document -- a bombshell confession that contradicts his sworn Congressional testimony.

"I did not recall seeing the report at the time. I did see the report, it turns out," Cuomo told PIX11 News. "I'm sure if I read the report I made language changes."

The mea culpa comes after the Department of Justice last month reportedly opened a criminal investigation into whether Cuomo lied on Capitol Hill when he adamantly denied that he drafted, reviewed, discussed or consulted on a nursing home report on Empire State nursing home deaths.

Despite his new admission, Cuomo told PIX that the report "was accurate," and complained that the entire issue "was politicized from day one."

The Louisiana Freedom Caucus is reminding people that in that state, if "protesters" commit the crime of false imprisonment on you by surrounding your car, and you fear for your life, you are legally entitled to exercise your right of self-defense, and that includes using your car as a weapon to effect your escape from kidnapping.

Louisiana Freedom Caucus @LAFreedomCaucus

YOUR RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE IS NON-NEGOTIABLE! If violent protests block LA roads and you fear for your life, you have a right to escape in your vehicle without civil or criminal liability. Protests expected June 14 in LA cities. Stay safe. #lalege #lagov @SFC_Network

Sometimes you find a treasure in a thrift shop.

Anyone else may not have stopped, but to super fans like Hughston, this was a major find.

'You don't see this at a thrift store everyday,' he wrote on X.

For those who aren't ghost hunters themselves, this painting likely didn't strike immediate terror.

But fans online knew that Hughston was standing in front of 'the most haunted painting in the world.'

That painting?

Viggo the Carpathian! Villain of the disappointing but okay Ghostbusters sequel.

Rapper 50 Cent posted this Russian Disinformation AI Cheapfake goofing on the people involved in the P. Diddy Freak Off case. He seems to be insinuating that Obama supporter and pal Jay Z is involved in some way, but being kept out of the headlines.

The Democrat-Media Party Goes All In on the Proposition That a Strange Man Should Be Permitted to Charge at a Female Office-Holder Without Consequence

—Ace

Is that the New Rule?

I ask once again: Are you sure you can live with the consequences of all these New Rules you're creating?

The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox

BREAKING: Secretary Kristi Noem fires back at Democrat Senator Alex Padilla -- who's now claiming mistreatment after storming a DHS press conference.

"I think his statement is actually ridiculous."

She laid out exactly what happened from her perspective.

"This man burst into a room, started advancing towards the podium, interrupting an opening statement, elevating his voice, shouting questions."

"People tried to stop him from interrupting the press conference, he refused and continued to lunge towards the podium and that is when he was removed from the room."

Then came the reality check:

"So the way that he acted was completely inappropriate."

"It wasn't becoming of a U.S. Senator or a public official and perhaps he wanted the scene and that's what he wanted."

The rest of country is tired of these charades:

"But I think the American people are sick of this action."

"I think the American people are tired of this, they just want the truth and they want to know it's happening and that's what we were trying to provide."

Rep. Elise Stefanik Grills Kathy Hochul on All the Illegal Aliens She Shielded from Deportation Who Went on to Rape Children or Burn Women to Death on the Subway

—Ace

What is even more galling is that she doesn't even know who these people are.

It's absolutely worth your time to watch, but if you don't have the time or can't play a video at work, see the transcript here.

Josh Hawley Expands Insurrection Investigation, Notifying CHIRLA and PSL That They Will Be Subpoenaed

—Ace

Who's funding this insurrectionary violence?

Well, ultimately, the taxpayer is. But the money is collected and paid out by revolutionary violence NGOs that this mentally-ill, suicidal country is actually paying for.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., expanded his investigation into alleged financial support for anti-ICE riots across the country Thursday, threatening subpoenas against at least three organizations.

Hawley says he has yet to hear a response from organizations he is probing for potentially supporting riots in Los Angeles in recent days. He told Fox News Digital in an interview that he will seek subpoenas against the organizations if they do not comply, which they have yet to do.

The senator also said he would pursue public hearings on the issue.

"If it's not public and transparent, then there's no point," he said.

Hawley wrote letters to three left-wing groups, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and the Union del Barrio (UD), on Wednesday.

CHIRLA did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on Wednesday. PSL and UD did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday.

"This is not spontaneous, and the proof of that can be seen as the riots are spreading to Chicago, to St. Louis," Hawley told Fox. "Somebody is paying for all of this, and we've got to get to the bottom of it."

The letters request that all three organizations provide internal communications relating to any protest planning or funding, as well as financial documents related to the same, including third-party contracts, vendor agreements and various other business relationships.

"Let me be clear: bankrolling civil unrest is not protected speech. It is aiding and abetting criminal conduct. Accordingly, you must immediately cease and desist any further involvement in the organization, funding or promotion of these unlawful activities," Hawley wrote.

Hawley also requested travel records for individuals involved with the organizations if they have been reimbursed, as well as the organizations' donor lists.

Trump should use the power that Obama and Biden created for him and demand that these organizations and their employees and funders all be de-banked. That was supposedly the whole point of de-banking, to dry up the financing for radical extremist groups.

They built this weapon, it's time to start using it.

Tweeters are saying that Padilla advanced threateningly on Kristi Noem and did not identify himself until after he was being forcibly restrained from further advancing on the DHS Secretary. In other words: He threatened Noem precisely so that he would be arrested and could then fundraise off it.

Chuck Schumer is “sickened” by Alex Padilla getting removed from a briefing he forcibly interrupted but not by the violent riots attacking ICE agents in major cities?pic.twitter.com/T65pf249Kb

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 12, 2025

"99% of Senators had a very uneventful day. Not sure what the big deal is here." - @brianstelter https://t.co/Ld2d5NFDdJ

— RBe (@RBPundit) June 12, 2025

"No one is above the law," right, Alex? Right, Chuck?

When California’s US Senator Alex Padilla cries foul about being arrested today make sure to remind him of his own words.
No one is above the Law. pic.twitter.com/obgzPWcxmj

— Runningbear (@RunningBearTx) June 12, 2025

Are we allowed to advance threateningly on Democrat politicians? How about their media enablers?

Is everyone allowed to run towards public figures?

Let me know if we are.

All of this is intended to be a normalization of political violence by the left. They are boiling the US frogs slowly, attempting to get them to just accept that leftists have the right to surround your car or burn your business to the ground unless you Submit to them.

This guy. This guy, right here. He gets it.

Meanwhile Florida Sheriffs: "We will kill you graveyard dead..." FAFO mother f'ers pic.twitter.com/mnskrVQvoo

— BradenLangley (@BradenLOA) June 12, 2025

Close it up

NBC "News" Reports a Huge Scoop: There's a Left-Wing Movement to Encourage and Escalate Violence
Update: California Democrat Senator Alex Padilla Arrested and Handcuffed for His #Resistance Efforts

—Ace

You don't say. You don't say.

John Sexton:

NBC hasn't completely separated itself from the "fiery but peaceful" mob of other media outlets but in this piece they do at least notice that there is a clear pattern to how the far-left operates.

It was approaching nightfall in Los Angeles on Sunday when black-clad demonstrators began to torch a row of self-driving Waymo taxis. Within minutes, videos of the fiery scenes began to pop up on social media.

"MORE. MORE AND MORE AND MORE," a group known as Unity of Fields posted on X, along with a video of the flaming vehicles.

It's part of a far-left online ecosystem that has proliferated in recent years, experts say. Some of the groups behind the accounts express contempt for peaceful resistance and glorify acts of violence -- and even murders, like those of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and two Israeli Embassy staffers...

The unrest in Los Angeles follows a pattern that has played out in numerous cities over the past five years in which protests that break out remain mostly peaceful during the day, but at night agitators engage in fiery clashes with police.

Not just online:

Sue Ellen @EstergrenSue

I live in Minnesota and there is a St. Cloud cable station that has a commercial that was asking people to scan a QR code on their phone if they wanted to get paid to be part of the resistance. This is not surprising that they are recruiting paid protesters from the state of Minnesota. Tim Walz encourages this behavior- look no further than the 2020 Minneapolis riots.

One group Sexton highlights is Unity of Fields, which does little but pump out propaganda supporting antisemitic assassin Elias Rodriguez and call for the murders of ICE agents:

FBI Arrests Foreign Invader Who Distributed Anti-Gas-Mask Face Shields to Rioters; Man Is a Member of a Latino Gang Paramilitary "The Brown Berets"

—Ace

You might have seen the "Bionic Shields" being handed out to rioters so that they could throw concrete at cops even when the cops used tear gas to disperse them.

Photographs of the foreign soldier were taken, and that foreign soldier operating on US soil has now been arrested.

The FBI collared an alleged Los Angeles riot leader who they say helped distribute dozens of face shields to anti-ICE rioters on the streets of Los Angeles.

The FBI nabbed Alejandro Theodoro Orellana on Thursday morning. He faces a charge of conspiracy to commit civil disorders, US Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said on X.

"We are moving quickly to identify and arrest those involved in organizing and/or supporting civil disorder in Los Angeles," said Essayli.

From Ed Morrissey, who points out that this foreign soldier is just one man in a larger foreign army, and that the FBI will now follow the money trail -- these face masks cost "thousands" of dollars in total, people say -- to find the financiers and then the directors of the foreign military insurgency.

We should keep in mind that this scumbag would not have been arrested by Biden's FBI.

I think we're all blackpilled now, maybe more than is healthy. We should once in a while acknowledge that we've made some progress.

Correction: I wrote that the masks cost "thousands." I meant that they cost thousands in aggregate, not that each mask cost thousands. TJM says they cost $60 per mask.

The way I wrote it sure made it sound like each mask cost thousands.

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

Another thing I should clarify is that this guy hasn't been identified as a "foreign" soldier yet.

But I imagine that's coming soon.

Either way, he's acting as a soldier in a foreign army taking action to conquer the people of the United States.

Scumbag Woke Corporation Walmart Faces Boycott As Scumbag Heiress Christy Walton Promotes the Planned Democrat-Media Party Riots Scheduled for This Saturday

—Ace

I hate this corporation.

Maybe we should have some fiery but mostly peaceful protests for Walmart.

Walmart is facing a furious boycott by the MAGA world after its billionaire heiress endorsed and promoted an anti-Trump rally amid the raging protests happening in Los Angeles.

Republicans have erupted online over Christy Walton's support of the group 'No Kings' - which took to social media several times calling President Donald Trump's response to the protests 'a distraction' because 'he wants to blind us to the chaos and damage he's inflicting nationwide.'

Christy Walton is the widow of John T. Walton, who was one of the sons of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart.

Although Walton, who is worth $19.4 billion, has not publicly spoken out about the protests or Trump, she placed a full-page ad in the New York Times Sunday calling on Americans to stand up 'against aggression by dictators' and 'mobilize' this upcoming Saturday - the same day the president is set to host a military parade in Washington D.C.

I think we could take a chunk of that $19.4 billion away with a big, beautiful boycott.

...

'We are the people of the United States of America. The honor, dignity, and integrity of our country are not for sale. Our government is of the people, by the people, for the people,' the ad, accompanied by an image of the Statue of Liberty, read.

Around the time her advertisement hit the paper, disastrous riots broke out in LA, leading Trump to call on the National Guard and US Marines to take over the growing chaos - sparking an all out fight across the county.

In the midst of the media coverage on the protests, 'No Kings' made several posts on X mentioning the violence and how it disagrees with the president's response.

One post read: 'THIS IS A DISTRACTION! Trump deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to LA to crush protests is a smokescreen. He wants to blind us to the chaos and damage he's inflicting nationwide. Don't fall for it -- he's hiding much worse!'

Another showed an illustrated image of Trump appearing to look down on a scene of protesters while holding an 'economic report' and what appeared to be pictures of him and Jeffery Epstein.

Walton's ad has visibly left many enraged and offended, leaving Republicans to call for a boycott of the popular retailer.

'Christy Walton from the family who own Walmart is Funding the day of defiance against Donald Trump. Enough is enough do not spend any money at Walmart or you are funding the things that are happening against our federal agents. Walmart is the one or most likely provided the gas masks during the riots,' one user wrote on X.

Another wrote: 'Time to boycott Walmart!'

'Boycott Walmart sounds good to me specially how Christy China Walton is hates America and supports burning the United States Flag and likes people harassing ICE and federal employees,' wrote someone else.

There are expected to be more than 1,800 events linked to the organization across the country Saturday, a No Kings spokesperson Andrew Cook told Forbes.

'On June 14--Flag Day--President Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn't staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else,' the group's website states.

...

'On June 14th, we're showing up everywhere he isn't--to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings,' it added.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers - one of the organization backing 'No Kings' to organize the anti-Trump protests - told the outlet: 'People from all walks of life support No Kings because our country was founded on the idea that presidents answer to the people -- not to authoritarian overreach or violence.'

Walmart says that it has nothing to do with Christy Walton's call for more rioting.

If that's true, then they should run a counter-ad.

But they won't.

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

The rule of law. It is a simple concept, but it is one of the foundations of Western culture. From the Magna Carta to the United States Constitution, Aristotle to John Locke to Montesquieu to Hayek; the even application of the law buttresses the theoretical freedoms the West has developed and fought for.

The drift away from blind justice and toward the concept of what can only be called "American Nobility" has eroded America's respect for and confidence in our institutions. When Hilary Clinton can break the law and then joke about it, when Sandy Berger can steal documents and get a slap on the wrist, when Congress can act on insider information to enrich themselves, when rioters can burn buildings and kill with impunity...the country ceases to have any confidence in itself.

And the "royalty" that is immune from prosecution is obvious to all. The princes of Democrat politics, and then their minions have been insulated for years from the consequences of their actions. Even their criminal shock troops on the street have been allowed to avoid anything more than a trivial slap on the wrist, or in the case of the rioters in NYC five years ago, were given government cash settlements for the inconvenience of being arrested!

Is that changing?

White House Says 330 Illegal Immigrants Arrested During LA Riots Will Be Deported

The White House stated that more than 330 illegal immigrants were arrested for being involved in rioting in Los Angeles over the past several days and that they will now be deported from the United States.

In a press conference on June 11, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that 113 of them “had prior criminal convictions.”

She said that, overall, 157 people have been arrested for assault and obstruction-related charges, and that number includes illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens.

This will be a powerful indicator of the seriousness of the Trump administration and its claim that the rule of law is returning to America. Will these charges be quietly dropped? Will these illegal aliens be given the opportunity to slip back into America? Will the clear message from the previous Democrat administrations that rioting and destruction is an appropriate response to legal actions be enshrined in our justice system?

The early indications are good... federal law enforcement seems to be taking seriously the idea that protest is appropriate but violence will be dealt with aggressively. And sweeping up the illegals during protests against sweeping up illegals is a delicious irony that hopefully will not be lost on the shock troops of the left.

If the Trump administration's policies create fear among the huge illegal population of America, then they will have done an admirable job. These people are criminals, and they should be afraid! And if that fear extends to the employers of these illegals...even better! The imprisonment of few hundred owners of the many thousands of firms that willingly employ illegals will go a long way to changing the paradigm in America: that we need illegals to do the work that Americans won't.

If that means that we pay more for hamburger and carrots and pork chops and new roofs? Well, that is the price we must pay to wrest control of our country from the globalists who opened our borders to these invaders, and then gave them our tax money and took our jobs!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Landscape with grass
Ivan Generalic

The Morning Report — 6/ 12 /25

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. The burning and looting of Los Angeles, now spreading to other cities continues, and as CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast (here and in the sidebar and on several platforms linked at CJN)

we could care less since this is what the majority of Californians and Angelenos voted for. So let them get what they voted for good and hard. As George Soros continues to waste money trying to turn Texas blue, some have postulated that the current round of violent insurrection could give Trump and the MAGA movement the opportunity to at least have a shot at, if not flipping California red, then perhaps making it as competitive (the cheat machine notwithstanding) as it has been since Reagan and Bush 41 won the state. I have my doubts although the Democrats have been hemorrhaging the youth vote, blacks and latinos. For sure the usual grievance mongering about open borders and so on is playing a major part in the violence, but the Democrats giving political cover and even encouraging the rioters to me seems as an act of desperation. Do they see their power and influence perhaps being on the wane and so are flashing out in one final act of political Gotterdammerung? only time will tell, I suppose.

Well, letting LA go up in flames certainly fulfills a certain understandable desire for schadenfreude. The problem is as much as we despise, and detest leftism, this cancer cannot be allowed to metastasize, and we cannot let the institutional left, their voting base and those who give them political and financial support think that any time they lose influence, can't rig an election, and think their power is slipping away, or that their goal of destabilizing and ultimately destroying the American republic as founded has been derailed, they can just order their cadres to take to the streets to burn, loot and murder until we surrender.

While I agree with the estimable Daniel Greenfield that, Newsom Bass and others in the Democrat Party should be arrested, and . . .

Sending in the National Guard, the Marines or for that matter, the Rangers, won’t stop the riots. Much like bombing Afghanistan didn’t stop Islamic terrorism, arresting street level activists isn’t going to deal with the root cause which operates at a level far above the Molotov hurlers.

And that’s not just George Soros or the Ford Foundation (which got into funding the radicalization of Latinos back when George was still grifting his way across Manhattan) or a handful of groups here and there… it’s California’s entire Democrat political leadership.That majority claimed that outraged Latinos rose up over Prop 187. What really happened then, much as now, is that leftists set off riots, and steamrolled sellout Republicans who never really believed in 187, and built a massive network of organizations to seize permanent power.

Some of those organizations, under various names, are still active today 30 years later. Under whatever names they go by, their real name is the California Democrat Party.

The same network of organizations trying to murder law enforcement officers in Los Angeles provides voter turnout and outreach to California Democrats. No politician can get elected, however dubiously, as governor or as the mayors of certain key cities, especially Los Angeles, without its support. Its activists call themselves ‘community organizers’, much as current Mayor Karen Bass, does, what they actually are is ‘community commissars’, using federal, state and local funds to run groups that double as voter turnout operations for local Democrats.

California is not, as Gov. Gavin Newsom falsely claims, a ‘democracy’. It’s a leftist political network riddled with ‘ghost districts’ filled with illegals, where elections depend on the flow of government money to the ‘community groups’ who provide manpower for election rallies, find voters, harvest ballots, advocate for propositions (usually for pay) and determine ‘elections’.

Greenfield asserts "Arrest California’s Leaders and the Riots Will Stop" and as I said, yes they should be arrested, but the riots won't stop. Because what gives California's leaders the ability to gain and maintain power is the willingness for their street terrorists to engage in terroristic acts regardless of who sits in the Statehouse or LA City Hall.

If you want the riots to stop, the fastest way to achieve that is to shoot to kill and to stack the bodies like cordwood. Pour encourager les autres as the Left's antecedents during the French Revolution might say.

Yes, it is the Democrat Party as a political entity that is the epicenter of the continuing anti-American revolution that must be dismantled root and branch, as should have happened in 1865. Sorry President Lincoln, with malice towards none my ass.

Meanwhile on the other side of the world, President Trump is making some moves, and it's making me a bit nervous.

President Trump confirmed on Wednesday evening that some U.S. personnel are moving out of the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran.

“Well they are being moved out because it could be a dangerous place and we’ll see what happens, but they are— we’ve given notice to move out,” Trump said.

He added that Iran “cannot have a nuclear weapon.” “We are not going to allow that,” he said.
Major developments began unfolding in the Middle East on Wednesday, following the announcement that the United States is reducing personnel at its missions in Baghdad and Erbil and reportedly permitting non-essential personnel dependents to leave other countries in the region, such as Bahrain and Kuwait.

The move comes after Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh threatened to strike American bases if nuclear negotiations fail and conflict arises. 

“All U.S. bases are within our reach and we will boldly target them in host countries,” Nasirzadeh said during a press briefing.

So, President Trump has drawn a very bright line in the sand by unequivocally stating Iran cannot be al be allowed to enrich any more uranium. Forget that this is coming on the heels of Steven Witkoff being sent to negotiate with the Mullahs, itself an insane fools errand on the part of the President given the nature of Islam and the desire of the Mullahs to cause armageddon in fulfillment of their isane philosophy and goal of global Islamic conquest, that the foreign policy elite refuses to acknowledge.

So, what is President Trump going to do once the Mullahs tell him to piss up a rope by openly enriching uranium. American boots on the ground or SAC flying over Iran to me is an absolute non-starter. In any case recall Trump warning Hamas that all hell would break loose if they did not immediately release all the hostages. And when they ignored him, Trump did nothing and that sent a message to Iran and all our enemies around the world.

The recalling of US personnel from the Middle East seems as if he might have given Israel the green light to attack Iran or else he knows that an attack is imminent.

And speaking of Schadenfreude:

The Palestinian terrorist group (pardon the redundancy) Hamas attacked a bus full of aid workers with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on Wednesday, killing at least five local Palestinians who worked with the group.

Several members of the group may also have been taken hostage. . .

But Israel commits genocide, yo!!!

Back over here, pardon the whipsawing:

“From L.A. to Rafah, there is one common oppressor — Death to the colonial empire,” warned Isra Hirsi, daughter of Minnesota “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, in a viral Instagram post praising anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles while linking U.S. immigration enforcement with the Gaza conflict, and casting both the U.S. and Israel as colonial powers to be violently dismantled.

As radical protesters clashed with police and ICE agents in downtown L.A., far-left activist Isra Hirsi publicly endorsed the unrest and connected it to the war in Gaza, stating: “From L.A. to Rafah, there is one common oppressor. Death to the colonial empire. Life for our children.” 

The message, calling ICE and Israel part of the same “colonial oppressor” system, drew sharp criticism for glorifying violence.

Meh, as the saying goes, and as for the evil spawn of Bro-Fo: "FUCK CANCER."

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
• Victor Davis Hanson: The left’s martyr-making machine is in overdrive—recasting criminals, rioters, and radicals as victims, even as the public demands law, order, and sanity.
  The Rogue’s New Gallery of Left-Wing Scoundrels
  
• Unless we do what Democrats say, they’ll burn our country to the ground. (author J.B. Shurk nails it with this one - jjs)
  Our Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Foreign Invasion

Daily Tech News 12 June 2025

—Pixy Misa

• PCI SIG has released the final specification for PCIe 7.0, and is busy working on PCIe 8.0. (Liliputing)
  
  PCIe 7.0 runs is twice as fast as PCIe 6.0, which is twice as fast as PCIe 5.0, and so on. Even a single lane of PCIe 7.0 will keep your RTX 4090 happy.
  
  PCIe 6.0 isn't shipping in devices yet, though test rigs are showing up, and PCIe 5.0 graphics cards only appeared six months ago. So don't expect the new slots soon - although PCIe 5.0 motherboards did reach the market surprisingly quickly.

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - June 11, 2025 [TRex]-

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT. This is also the school is OUT ONT edition!

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Brian Wilson of Beach Boys fame joined the community of surfers riding the eternal wave earlier today. Wilson is credited as the leader and primary song writer for the band. The band began with Brian and his two brothers, Carl and Dennis. Eventually, they were joined by their cousin, Mike Love, and a friend from school, Al Jardine.

You probably know the song "Good Vibrations." Do you know the rest of the story?

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On with the random weirdness that is the ONT...

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This doesn't sound familiar at all. Nope. Not at all. Well, maybe a little bit...

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Guessing that many of us identify with Calvin:

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School's out but the learning never stops! Schoolhouse Rock!

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Music time!

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Caption contest. Ready, go.

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Variation on the school bus theme:

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Since this is a (quasi) smart military blog (at times)...

Yet Another Reprieve for the Dragon Lady?

Just weeks after Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meinke and USAF chief Gen David Allvin restated the USAF's desire to retire the U-2, a key Congressional committee has said that it should do no such thing. The USAF was planning to cease U-2 operations at the end of September, and retire the fleet during Fiscal Year 2026, which begins on 1st October. But the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) decreed this week that in FY2026, "no funds...may be used to divest or prepare to divest more than eight U-2 aircraft." Further, the Committee provided $55 million "for U-2 programmed depot maintenance [PDM] to fully restore three aircraft."

Lockheed PMD funding and operations is the key to keep the U-2 in the air. Apparently there are 31 in inventory: four two-seat trainers and the rest are the standard one-seaters.

On a separate but somewhat related note, sounds like lots of pizza being ordered at the Pentagon tonight. Stay tuned.

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Anyone been to the UFO landing pad at St. Paul, Alberta, Canada?

In 1967, a proposal was made to build the world's first UFO Landing Pad as a landmark for the Town. The Government of Canada responded to this proposition and, during the grand opening on June 3 1967, St. Paul was declared the Centennial Capital of Canada.

Not sure why the good people of St. Paul thought the aliens will want to land there or how they determined their landing platform was of sufficient size, but maybe AOP built them a homing beacon for the platform and has seen spaceship design plans.

If you visit, don't miss the 42 foot high, 6 ton kielbasa about an hour away in the town of Mundare. The giant frankfurter commemorates the 50 year history of the meat processing plant in town.

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Randomly stumbled across these photos of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb, Croatia. Anyone been there?

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The OSI Silver Fox Is a Wild Prototype with a Fascinating Backstory

Desperate companies don't often turn work away, so when Piero Taruffi knocked on the door in 1966 with plans for a prototype racing car, OSI was only too happy to oblige. The Silver Fox is what they came up with.

Intended to run at Le Mans in the Group B6 small-displacement class, and also set class-specific speed records, the Silver Fox was powered by a 1.0-liter Renault four-cylinder engine with tuning from Alpine. This engine was mounted behind the driver's seat in the left-hand pontoon, with seating for a passenger in the right pontoon.

The aerodynamics were very clever, with three separate wings for adjustable downforce. The front wing had to be set when the car was at rest, but the driver could adjust the middle wing mid-race. The contemporary Chaparral 2E had similar technology, and you can think of it as a 1960s-style F1 DRS (drag reduction system).

The Silver Fox was certainly an adventurous idea, but the collapse of OSI meant that it would die on the vine, not even properly test-driven. However, given the success of Taruffi's other projects, it might have been very fast indeed. Some sources indicate that a top speed of as much as 150 mph might have been achievable, but when displayed at Como, it was indicated that only around 105 mph might have been expected out of the Alpine 1.0L. Still, Taruffi did more with less.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving:

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School's out for summer! Alice Cooper and Pink Floyd were too obvious. Briefly considered Van Halen, but instead, the Ramones provide our big ONT finish:

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Should you find and follow all the mystery clicks? Yes you should. Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Come out and play. Unless you're David Hogg. Then just go away.

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Flirty Furballs Cafe

—Ace

New Brunswick, Canada
by: ANorthernGirl

Sexy panda sends you a seductive video.

Baby elephant seal comes over to sniff out a human.

Swan boat.

The park's closed. Moose outside should've told ya.

Husky tucks his mistress in.

Arctic wolves aren't sending their best.

Evil river otters gang up on a puppy.

Cheeky horse.

I don't know what kind of Mickey Mouse Tom and Jerry operation they're running in China.

I'm Batcow.

Finally these humans are doing something AWESOME!

Goats wearing their training horns.

Quick Hits

—Ace

It wasn't just the UK Guardian -- most of the Democrat-Media Party "news" organizations lied about inflation going up, despite the fact that the 0.1% increase is, effectively, no inflation at all. Remember, the Fed aims for a 2% yearly rate.

not just The Guardian is lying. Some headlines from the msm today

ABC "News": Inflation ticket Higher In May Amis Trump Tarriffs

USA Today: CPI Report reveals inflation crept higher

CBS: Inflation edged higher in May

Oddly yahoo and nbc have the most fair headline

Yahoo: inflation pressures ease on a monthly basis

NBC: May inflation shows prices held steady

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Fire them all:

When the Trump administration swept into the Department of Justice on Jan. 20, it moved swiftly to purge, demote, transfer and otherwise sideline career lawyers not perceived to be team players or sufficiently committed to the MAGA legal agenda.

Amid the upheaval and exodus of longtime federal prosecutors, one quiet 10th floor office in a remote outpost of the Justice Department has come to symbolize the withering impact of changes at the agency. Those who work there call it "the rubber room."

Inside, nearly a dozen of the government's most seasoned civil rights, environmental and national security lawyers have been reconstituted as members of a newly created group called the Sanctuary Cities task force.

At first glance, the job seemed promising -- a legal strike team that would sue municipalities the administration claimed were facilitating the violation of immigration laws, a task force undertaking a top priority for the new Justice Department leadership.

But the more these attorneys looked into it, the more they concluded the task force was a sham, a Potemkin operation that seemed more aimed at stashing away career lawyers than putting them to work on a legitimate legal project, according to interviews with six people knowledgeable about the task force, all of whom painted a similar picture.

Lawyers there have been assigned menial research tasks and left with hours of idle time -- an effort they view as intended to coerce them into resigning, those with knowledge of the task force said.

"This is a hard thing to talk about," said Tom Mariani, an environmental litigator who resigned rather than accept reassignment to the rubber room. "I can't tell you how much personal distress I feel over how these folks were treated."

The term rubber room is an allusion to now-infamous "reassignment centers" where New York City officials transferred public school teachers and administrators who some considered burned out or incompetent, but who could not be fired because of union rules. But in this case, those being transferred have been elite veteran attorneys from the Civil Rights Division, the National Security Division and the Environment and Natural Resources Division whose performance had not previously been questioned.

LOL. These people all worked on left-wing politicized lawsuits and prosecutions.

They have been previously questioned, of course. It's just that the left supports the use of the DOJ as a tool of partisan warfare.

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None would comment for this story, fearing retaliation from the administration. But public interest lawyers and government watchdogs say their experience stands apart as an example of how callously civil servants who have dedicated their professional lives to public service have been treated.

They're fucking hacks who took a job because the hours are good, the pay is good, and it's almost impossible to get fired. Stop pretending that they're sacrificing to take law jobs that do not require constant overtime work on the weekends the way lawyers in private firms have to do.

The emails began arriving in the third week of January from then-Acting Attorney General James McHenry, landing in the inboxes of some of the Justice Department's most senior career attorneys, notifying them that they were being transferred to the newly created Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group and had 15 days to decide whether to take the new assignment or resign.

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Those who did accept the assignment arrived in the isolated offices during what some called a Department of Justice in turmoil, former senior prosecutors told CBS News.

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The lawyers continued coming into 2Con each morning but had to find activities to occupy their time. Some completed jigsaw puzzles and streamed television shows like "The Last of Us" and "Succession." One lawyer, Deborah Harris, whose previous job had been head of the Environment and Natural Resources Division's crimes section, could be seen practicing Italian on Duolingo.

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The rubber room is just the latest in a series of personnel moves that critics of the administration have tracked. Some have been demoted within their own units. Bruce Swartz, the highly respected head of the Office of International Affairs, was notified by email that he was being transferred to the office's training program, a job that fell several rungs below his position. He opted to resign.

Toronto will open a black-only homeless shelter, with all other races excluded.

Toronto officials are taking applications until Friday for city council's new "Black-mandated" shelter, where everyone from employees to the homeless could be excluded on the basis of race.

City Hall has also decreed that experience in running a shelter is not a requirement for those submitting applications.

The city's shelter and support services division says the new shelter will help make Toronto's services "reflective of the diversity of the city," but offered no specifics as to where it would go or when it might open.

A city document says shelter services is developing "at least one Black-mandated shelter" by 2033. That document -- a set of guidelines for prospective applicants for the shelter contract -- says the intention is "to provide opportunities" for Black-mandated non-profits, "also referred to as B3," the document says.

It defines a B3 as "an organization that is led by a majority of paid staff and board members who self-identify as Black or are of African descent." A B3 must serve "Toronto's diverse Black communities," both in practice and in an explicit mandate.

While an applicant must meet those requirements to be eligible, one thing that isn't required is experience in running a shelter.

Shelter services "welcomes applications" from B3s "with less than one year of experience operating a shelter," the document says, but such groups are "encouraged" to find a mentor.

The expectations are unclear, as the document at another point references B3s that haven't operated a shelter for a year "but do have experience in providing other services to Black individuals experiencing homelessness." Meanwhile, a slide deck from an April presentation says applicants without a year of experience "will be required" to find mentors, including for shelter operations and asset management.

The guidelines document is 22 pages long, and includes a four-page glossary of terms such as "anti-racism," "diaspora," "interpersonal racism" and "structural racism." The section on providing financial details, meanwhile, consists of two short paragraphs.

The document lists a number of operational requirements for the shelter, such as running 24/7 all year long and committing to audits by City Hall. Some of the requirements appear specific to this shelter, such as stipulated "safe spaces for Black clients and staff," "culturally appropriate food and nutrition" and Black-specific toiletries and hygiene products as laid out in the city's confronting anti-Black racism, or CABR, directives.

In case you missed it: The Biden-controlled Secret Service made sure they destroyed the evidence in the White House cocaine case the moment after they issued their cover-up report.

Two years after the U.S. Secret Service discovered a bag of cocaine in the White House in July, 2023, documents showing orders for its destruction within 24 hours after the agency closed the case are raising new questions about the scrupulousness of the investigation.

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency document titled "Destruction" states that the bag of cocaine was sent to the Metropolitan Police Department for incineration. That document, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, doesn't display a date for the destruction. But other internal Secret Service records show that the cocaine was tested by the Secret Service, the D.C. Fire Department hazmat technicians, and the FBI before being sent back to the Secret Service for storage on July 12. Two days later, it was transferred to the D.C. police department for destruction. The Secret Service shut down the cocaine investigation 11 days after discovering it.

The destruction of narcotics evidence must comply with environmental and safety regulations, and the D.C. police department has an Environmental Protection Agency-approved incinerator that federal agencies often use to destroy narcotics that are not involved in active legal cases.

D.C. police officials referred all questions about the cocaine's apparent destruction to the FBI. There's no entry or date for the cocaine's actual destruction.

Early last week, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced that he was re-opening the investigation into the cocaine found in the White House, as well as the leak of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the discovery of a pipe bomb at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Bongino reiterated his commitment to getting to the bottom of those cases in a Wednesday night interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.

"Well, I get a kick out of it on social media," Bongino said. "People say, 'This case isn't a big deal. I don't care.' Well, I care. ... You don't care that a [potentially] hazardous substance made its way into the White House? We didn't know what it was, and we don't seem to have answers? Well, we're going to get them. I've got a great team on it."

I wonder if any DOJ lawyers who helped cover up the Biden cocaine scandal are in the rubber room.

Fox Nation has a special about the Trump McDonald's Shift.

Fox Nation is offering a rare glimpse into Donald Trump's pivotal McDonald's visit during the final weeks of his 2024 campaign with a multi-episode installment of "The Art of the Surge."

It all starts at a McDonald's drive-thru, where the then-GOP nominee traded a suit for an apron and got to work as a fry cook in Feasterville, Pennsylvania last October.

"I've always wanted to work at McDonald's, and I never did," he told workers inside the building.

The first episode of the series documents Trump's "first day" on the job from the very beginning, as he requested to work the french fry cooker and learned the process.

He walked through, step-by-step, dunking fries into hot oil, shaking the basket, pouring servings into the signature red McDonald's cartons and sprinkling salt over them.

It became an iconic moment on the campaign trail as the notorious New York City business magnate-turned-president performed a job many Americans have had at one point in their lives.

He even greeted customers wrapped around the building at the drive-thru window.

As one family took a Happy Meal from his hands he quipped with a smile, "It's going to be the best you've ever had. It had better be. I made it myself."

Customers passed on their messages of encouragement as the high-stakes faceoff with then-vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was merely two weeks away, with both teams in a mad sprint to the finish line.

"Make America great again!" one driver said.

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"I could do this all day. I wouldn't mind this job," he said.

Trump's efforts were viewed by many as a mockery of a claim his opponent had worked for the fast food chain while in college.

At one point, Trump even remarked, "I've now worked for 15 minutes. Fifteen more than Kamala."

Karen Bass Declares a State of Emergency and Imposes a Curfew While Also Insisting There Is No Crisis At All

—Ace

If there's no crisis, then it was illegal to declare an emergency, Cuban Communist.

Weird how there's a crisis when Bass says there's one but there's not a crisis when Trump says there's one.

Even more weird: It's the same situation in both cases. Bass declares a crisis then says that Trump is wrong to say it's a crisis.

It's Schroedinger's Crisis. There's only a crisis when and to the extent a Democrat allows there to be one.

Mayor Karen Bass announced a curfew for Downtown Los Angeles after five straight days of violence and mayhem that has marred much of the neighborhood around the federal buildings where immigrants rounded up in a series of raids are being held and prosecuted.

"The curfew will be in place from 8 p.m. tonight until 6 a.m. tomorrow," announced Bass, adding that it could last for several days and would be reevaluated tomorrow. "Everyone must abide by this curfew."

Bass said a "local emergency" has been declared and that the curfew was necessary because of what she called "extensive widespread vandalism" that includes profanity-laced graffiti scrawled on City Hall, an LAPD building, and rampant destruction in public parks and at private businesses. Bass said she was dismayed that 23 businesses were looted, while multiple historical landmarks in Little Tokyo along with immigrant-owned businesses, were heavily damaged.

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell said that anyone who violates the curfew "will be arrested." The curfew's boundaries will encompass the area encircled by the 5 Freeway, the 110 Freeway, and the 10 Freeway and end where the 5 Freeway and the 110 Freeway merge.

"The curfew is a necessary measure to protect lives and safeguard property, following several consecutive days of growing unrest throughout the city," McDonnell said. "Since Saturday, we have seen a concerning escalation in unlawful and dangerous behavior."

Despite declaring a crisis empowering her to impose a curfew, this Communist Castro-Lover went on to the leftwing propaganda stations to insist there was no crisis at all, and if there is a crisis, the crisis is only happening because Trump sent in troops to protect federal property from the crisis.

Elon Musk: I'm Sorry, My Late Night Attacks on Trump "Went Too Far"

—Ace

Our long short national nightmare diversion is over.

President Trump is feeling good about Elon Musk's apology after the former "first buddy" admitted late Tuesday he had gone "too far" in his personal attacks on the commander-in-chief.

"I thought it was very nice that he did that," the president told The Post in a brief phone conversation Wednesday morning, but didn't say whether he was willing to let bygones be bygones with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO.

Musk, 53, went off on Trump in a series of social media messages this past Thursday, at one point claiming the Republican would not have won the 2024 election without his help and suggesting the president was responsible for preventing the release of files on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein due to his past association with the late financier.

"I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far," Musk wrote late Tuesday after previously deleting his post about the Epstein files.

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Trump told Post columnist Miranda Devine Monday that he doesn't "blame" Musk for the blow-up that started with the former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) figure's criticisms of the Big Beautiful Bill -- but maintained that he's "a little disappointed."

"Look, I have no hard feelings," Trump said. "I was really surprised that that happened. He went after a bill that's phenomenal. ...He just -- I think he feels very badly that he said that, actually."

When asked whether he would ever go back to a regular relationship with Musk, Trump told Devine's "Pod Force One" podcast: "I guess I could, but we have to straighten out the country."

"And my sole function now is getting this country back to a level higher than it's ever been. And I think we can do that."

Trump Announces Deal With China; Media Cry About Tariffs Not Causing Inflation As They've Insisted They Would for Two Years

—Ace

The latest coordinated Democrat-Media Party panic operation concerned rare earth metals. They said that the economy would collapse because Trump's trade war with China was reducing the amount of heavy metals China was selling us.

Well, Trump says he just struck a trade deal with China and China will begin sending us heavy metals again.

(I know I keep flipping between rare earth metals and heavy metals but I think they're largely overlapping Venn circles and I like saying heavy metal and taking a ride on heavy metal.)

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the U.S. deal with China is done, with Beijing to supply magnets and rare earth minerals while the U.S. will allow Chinese students in its colleges and universities.

"WE ARE GETTING A TOTAL OF 55% TARIFFS, CHINA IS GETTING 10%. RELATIONSHIP IS EXCELLENT!" Trump wrote on Truth Social without elaborating.

A White House official said the agreement allows the U.S. to charge a 55% tariff on imported Chinese goods. This includes a 10% baseline "reciprocal" tariff, a 20% tariff for fentanyl trafficking and a 25% tariff reflecting pre-existing tariffs. China would charge a 10% tariff on U.S. imports, the official said.

Trump said the deal is subject to final approval by him and President Xi Jinping.
"FULL MAGNETS, AND ANY NECESSARY RARE EARTHS, WILL BE SUPPLIED, UP FRONT, BY CHINA. LIKEWISE, WE WILL PROVIDE TO CHINA WHAT WAS AGREED TO, INCLUDING CHINESE STUDENTS USING OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD WITH ME!)," Trump said.

China has agreed to a 55% tariff on their goods with only a 10% tariff on our goods? That seems incredible, but they have, in fact, been ripping us off for decades, and they are being hurt by Trump's tariffs. We're not, but they are.

Meanwhile, the media is now crying that the runaway inflation they were praying for isn't coming to save them from the Bad Orange Man:

Axios is very sad:

A run of better-than-expected indicators -- including Wednesday's inflation report -- so far point to a strikingly resilient economy.

Why it matters: Those waiting for signs of a tariff-wrecked economy will have to keep waiting.

Economists anticipate President Trump's policies, particularly those related to trade, will weaken growth and raise consumer prices. But how, when, or even if looks more uncertain than ever.

Aw. So sad! I know you were really counting on this, Democrat-Media Party.

Just six days ago, on June 5th, this same Politico for Kidz! website we know as Axios reported that "anecdotally" there was proof of the claim that tariffs are causing inflation, and said it was "textbook economics."

Now, it is true that tariffs usually cause price increases but you know what reduces prices? An economy becoming more productive. Like reversing the Obama-Biden trend of cutting jobs in the real economy (and putting people on welfare, where they're paid to produce nothing) while creating jobs in the fake economy of government bureaucrats taking money from some people and giving it to other people. Moving people from destructive to productive uses will tend to check price increases.

Bloomberg is very, very sad that Trump's tariffs are causing, if anything, prices to fall.

I won't bother to prove it -- though I could, easily -- the vile communist corporate propaganda media is wailing and gnashing their teeth that the explosion of inflation they've been wishcasting for not just since the election but for years before it just isn't happening.

The Guardian, in fact, flat out lies to its readers and tells them prices are going up:

US prices continued to rise in May amid Trump tariffs

Annualized inflation hit 2.4% in May, up from 2.3% in April, as Trump pushes ahead with controversial trade plans

US prices continued to rise in May as companies and consumers grappled with Donald Trump’s tariffs. The president has repeatedly pledged to lower costs across the economy.

Annualized inflation ticked higher, to 2.4%, in May, up from 2.3% in April. On a month-to-month basis, the consumer price index rose by 0.1%, down from 0.2% the previous month.

The readings were softer than expected. Economists had expected a headline CPI reading for 2.5% in May, amid widespread uncertainty over the direction of the US economy.

Now, it is true that inflation clocked in at 0.1% in May -- which is a very low rate. Sean Davis did a quick calculation and confirms that that 0.1% monthly increase in inflation translates to a yearly inflation rate of 1.25% -- well below the 2% inflation rate the Fed actually aims for as its "target" rate. (The Fed believes that some amount of inflation is good and necessary. I think they reason that some inflation pressures people to invest money or at least put it into savings accounts (with the bank investing it) rather than just hoarding it.)

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Illegal Alien Charged With Throwing Molotov Cocktails at Police

—Ace

The exact charge was "assault with a fiery but mostly peaceful incendiary device."

This is not an "immigrant." This is a Mexican invader, little different from Pancho Villa.

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a previously deported illegal immigrant from Mexico after he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at law enforcement amid rioting in Los Angeles on June 7.

LA has experienced days of unrest, with agitators setting fire to cars, throwing bricks and fireworks at police officers and vehicles, graffiting property, looting businesses, and smashing windows of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) headquarters downtown in response to ICE raids in the city last week.

"Emiliano Garduno-Galvez is a criminal illegal alien from Mexico who threatened the lives of federal law enforcement officers by attacking them with a Molotov cocktail during the violent riots in Los Angeles. ICE arrested Garduno-Galvez, and he is now being charged with attempted murder. These are the types of criminal illegal aliens that rioters are fighting to protect," Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Wednesday statement.

McLaughlin added: "The Los Angeles rioters will not stop us or slow us down. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

DHS noted that Garduno-Galvez had previously been deported and has a prior criminal record, including a 2024 arrest for grand theft near the Anaheim Police Department and a DUI in Long Beach.

This man is Our Strength. He's probably working on a cure for cancer in between boosting cars.

Here are some of the Future Cancer Curers who the Democrat-Media Party is determined to keep in the country.

Trump's ICE crackdown is continuing despite LA riots... meet some of the worst criminals they've arrested

President Donald Trump's ICE continues to arrest criminal illegal aliens as protests and riots have engulfed Los Angeles.

Over 160 anti-ICE protestors have been arrested in LA since Friday, according to local authorities, many for failure to disperse, and at least one - a Mexican national illegally in the U.S. - for attempted murder after throwing a Molotov cocktail at law enforcement.

There have been hundreds of illegal aliens arrested in LA since the protest broke out on June 6, a source familiar with operations told the Daily Mail.

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Despite the stand offs with rioters, Newsom and Bass, the White House said deportation operations in LA are continuing.

'The Trump Administration will fulfill the President's promise to deport illegal aliens and no one -- not even violent left-wing rioters -- will get in the way of our mission,' White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the Daily Mail.

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The White House is now sending the message that regardless of what Newsom or the protestors think, ICE operations will continue.

'Radical liberal rioters, enabled by weak politicians like Gavin Newsom, are using violence to try and stop the American people's agenda from being implemented. It won't work,' Jackson told the Daily Mail.

'In November, the American people gave President Trump a mandate: deportations.'

And according to migrant arrest data exclusively provided to the Daily Mail, ICE's Los Angeles team is continuing to act on the president's orders.

The rap sheets of five criminal aliens arrested Tuesday in LA were shared exclusively with the Daily Mail.

It includes Hondurans Carlos Alberto Escobar-Flores, 43, whose criminal history includes a conviction for grand theft; and Jose Jimenez-Alvarado, who was convicted for felony theft, according to the White House.

Mexican national Jesus Romero-Retana, 52, a man convicted for battery and intent to terrorize, was also apprehended by ICE on Tuesday, the White House revealed.

So was Cambodian Mab Khleb, a 53-year-old citizen of Cambodia, with prior convictions for possession of controlled substances and lewd action with a child, officials said.

Sang Louangpasert, a 66-year-old Laotion man who was ordered to leave the U.S. in 2001, was also arrested by ICE.

He has previous convictions of lewd acts with a child under 14 and corporal injury on a spouse, the White House said.

What can we do when Our Strength commits lewd acts with children?

Here are more pedophiles and sex criminals that the Democrat-Media Party has protected and permitted to remain in our country:

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_

BREAKING: Federal sources ID some of the criminal illegal alien targets ICE arrested in their LA operation yesterday & today, which sparked violent protests. They include multiple gang members, convicted sex offenders, violent gun offenders, & drug offenders. One has already been deported. They include:

Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, a national of the Philippines who has prior convictions for sexual penetration with a foreign object, assault with intent to commit rape, and burglary, all in California.

ARMANDO ORDAZ, a Mexican national & known gang member with a conviction for sexual battery, receiving stolen property, and theft in Los Angeles.

VICTOR MENDOZA-AGUILAR, a previously deported Mexican national & known gang member with convictions for assault with a deadly weapon, and possessing drug paraphernalia.

DELFINO AGUILAR MARTINEZ, a Mexican national with a conviction for assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury in LA.