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August 02, 2025

The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

—Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus)

[H/T to a Moron]

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Mishicot)

1. This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2. Be Kind, Be Nice. Trolls need admonition.
3. No. You may not run with sharp objects here. Go to Slate or something like tha.
4. Have a great weekend!

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When Weasel isn't thinking about, tinkering or shooting guns he thinks about you Saturday morning Morons. Thanks Weasel for the following educational film.

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.

Prayer Requests:

5/29 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update and her thanks for all the prayers and words of encouragement. They have sustained her and her family as she continues to battle cancer. She continues to receive good news: her oncologist is quite pleased with her response to the current medication protocol; they are decreasing the lab work frequency to every other week instead of weekly; the side effects from chemo have been barely noticeable; she can just take 4 tiny pills for chemo instead of spending one day a week at the cancer center. It’s been 7 months so far, and she expects that at some point the tumors will start growing again, but for now, they are encouraged.
6/6 Update – Teresa has a side effect from the chemo – her fingernails and toenails are starting to loosen and “lift” off their nail beds. It is painful, and also carries a risk of infection.
7/9 Update – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update – all is well for her for now. She will have more lab work done on 7/15, and then a CT scan on 7/28 to see if the tumors have shrunk any more. She is still losing hair, and her fingernails and toenails are still being “wonky”. She is not nauseous, so she is happy with her current situation.

6/11 – Legally Sufficient asks the Horde’s prayers for her friend, Bubba, who was in a bad auto wreck on 6/8. Prayers for comfort, healing, and strength are needed for Bubba and his family. He is in ICU and will be there for a couple more weeks. Thank you!
7/15 Update - Legally Sufficient asks for continued prayers for healing, strength and comfort for her friend Bubba. God is great! Bubba continues slow and steady improvement following his horrific vehicle accident. She received a photo of him visiting a job site this week and she said she doesn’t mind telling you that it suddenly got dusty here. Bubba was not able to stay very long before the heat and humidity took a toll and he was forced to retreat to air conditioning. Bubba is still under doctor’s orders to not drive, but has an able and willing chauffeur (his wife) who takes him where he wants to go. The prayers are working, please keep them coming for a little while longer!

6/28 – Dave R requested prayers for healing, strength, recovery, and curing, as he was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. He is 62 and a long-time AoSHQ reader.
7/5 Update – Chemo starts on 7/7.

6/28 – H asked for prayers for a mom of two elementary aged boys who lost her mother 3 weeks ago, and her husband on 6/28, both to cancer.
7/19 Update – The visitation was good, but prayers are still appreciated, especially for the boys, as they go through a hard stage of life without their dad.

7/3 – Ciampino’s daughter posted to let us know that Ciampino is back in the hospital. He is dehydrated again. His kidney cyst is back and bigger, so he will need to have another surgery, but they don’t know when.
7/7 Update – Ciampino passed away. His daughter posted how much he loved everyone’s witty humor on the site, and sent her thanks for giving him years of enjoyment and community.
7/19 Update – Please contact Annie’s Stew for more information if you would like to contribute to Ciampino’s cremation fund raiser.

7/5 – Boswell asks for prayers for his best friend Mark’s mother. She is 90 years old and was diagnosed with sepsis after her colon burst. She had surgery on 7/3, but her recovery is not going well. She is too weak for the tests she needs to find out what is wrong. Please pray that she recovers fully, as she and Mark are very close. He is devastated.
7/16 Update – Mark’s mother passed away peacefully in her sleep. Mark is, of course, quite saddened by this, but at least she did not suffer at the end, and her family was by her side when she went. Boswell hopes that his friend finds solace that she lived a long, happy life and she raised such a wonderful son.

7/9 - Teresa in Fort Worth asks for prayers for her niece Amanda, and her husband Barkley. They are at Vanderbilt Hospital, where Amanda seems to be rejecting her second heart transplant. She is only 40 years old, and has been having heart issues for 20 years. She had her first heart transplant 4 years ago, and things are not looking good.

7/11 – Racially Ambiguous Honky, the brother of G’rump/toby928, sent his thanks for the prayers on his behalf, after his appendix burst and he had sepsis. He says he is recovering well.

7/11 – JR requested prayers for the families of those killed in Gaza.

7/11 – Stateless sent his thanks to all for their thoughts and prayers for him. His house officially became his on 6/30, ending 6 months of uncertainty since his Mom passed. He is getting stronger and is learning about and working to process emotions differently, after losing so much.

7/11 – Screaming in digital asked for prayers for her mother. Mom is still recovering from a UTI plus 3 falls within the last couple of days. During the day, there is some improvement. But once she starts sundowning, she is terrified and clings to whatever she can hold onto. She only weighs about 105-110, and isn’t eating much, but it is hard to move her when she is like that. If she doesn’t improve her mobility and cooperate/help with transfers to and from the wheelchair, etc., and consistently feed herself, she won’t be able to stay at the assisted living facility.
7/19 Update – Screaming in digital’s mother passed away.

7/11 – Frankie asked for prayers for her friend “R”, who is back on hospice for Huntington’s disease. He was on hospice before, but went off for an experimental medication, but unfortunately it wasn’t helpful.

7/11 – Igotnothing sent a prayer of praise. A grand-nephew, quadriplegic since birth due to deformities, and now age 10, after many surgeries and care and prayers, is able to walk. The boy and his family (mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-aunt and great-uncle) went on his first ever walk in the woods. What joy!

7/11 – Matthew Kant Cipher requested prayers for Layne, a family friend who is also his son’s FIL. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer and is awaiting further test results to determine whether they treat with chemo or remove his bladder. As of now, it appears to be contained. Please pray that he and his family are blessed with God’s love and grace through this time of trial.

7/18 – Tecumseh Tea had a heart attack and needs prayers.
7/23 Update – Tecumseh Tea had a Type 2 heart attack, which is considered mild. She sends prayers of thanks for that! The angiogram showed a healthy heart, with little plaque and clean arteries, so no stent was needed. They did find a myocardial bridge, which is a congenital defect. The goal is to keep BP 140/70 with a pulse of less than 60, but so far they have not been able to meet that goal. She can’t get a cardiologist appointment until 8/22, so the GP is helping, but so far they have not been able to get the right BP meds. Please pray for a sooner visit, and the right meds that work for her, and answers.

7/19 – Huerfano asked for prayers for a rapid and full recovery for brother R, who had hernia surgery. He cannot see his grandsons until he has recovered. He misses them , and they miss him.

7/19 – Farmer Bob posted an update. He is doing well. He is competing in 5Ks and triathalons, and sends his thanks for the prayers. His ex-wife has “gone off the deep end” (or just remains so), with weird lies and accusations. She could use a prayer or two.

7/19 – Tonypete asked for prayers for Cheri and Gretchen, church ladies of his acquaintance. Cheri had a medical incident while driving and veered off the road and struck a number of pedestrians, sending 3 or 4 to the hospital. Gretchen and her husband were passengers in the car and her husband had a heart attack after the accident and died. Cheri is just sick about it and has kind of snapped. Gretchen has lost her best friend of 65 years.

7/19 – H asked for prayers for Brandon, a homeless man in San Marcos, TX, who has a broken ankle and has to seek care for that injury, specifically prayers that he would see God providing for him. He is asking for God to help him advocate for his care.

7/23 – D sent an update on his wife Susan, as they deal with cancer. The last few weeks have been a roller coaster. They cannot operate on the cancer, because it has spread too much. They have started chemo and hope to get it to shrink. Susan’s gallbladder is inflamed, but they cannot remove it, due to the chemo, and her blood sugar is having issues. Thanks to everyone for their prayers; Susan has pulled through all of this and is looking great as they keep praying to the Lord.

7/26 – Stateless asked for prayers for his neighbors. The nice lady across the street lost her husband of 30 years about 3 months ago. And a different neighbor lost his beloved wife of 34 years in July.

7/26 – Fenelon Spoke requested prayers for J, a dear lady who attends her church. J has been going downhill since she had a heart procedure several months ago and now cannot speak. She may have dementia and is living in an assisted living facility.

7/26 – Coelacanth sent his thanks for prayers for his son. He has come a _very_ long way but could still use more prayers as he deals with vax and black mold injuries. Also, Coelacanth cut his left hand pretty badly and severed two tendons. He will be on light duty at work for 6+ weeks. Prayers are appreciated.

7/26 - Brother Tim was discharged from the cancer rehab facility and has returned to his routine of living out of hotel rooms, while working on better housing prospects. He is praising God for all the blessings and mercies!
7/30 Update – Brother Tim found out that the cancerous mass impinged on a blood vessel. He needs a full body scan to make sure it has not spread. He is relieved that he only needs radiation and not chemo to make sure the original cancer stays gone. He’s also out of PTO. He said that sometimes it feels like 2025 will be the death of him – possibly literally.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Close it up

Posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 07:47 AM Comments

Daily Tech News 2 August 2025

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

UK premium luggage service Airportr, which provided door-to-door service and worked with ten European airlines, was not hacked, exactly. (Wired) (archive site)

Because it had no security at all. Anyone could look up anyone's personal information, or even log in as an administrator and redirect their luggage.
The vulnerabilities resulted in complete confidential private information exposure of all airline customers in all countries who used the service of this company, including full control over all the bookings and baggage. Because once you are the super-admin of their most sensitive systems, you have have the ability to do anything.
It was found by security analysts before anyone took advantage of it. The CEO of security group Cyber9X is quoted above.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM Comments

Keep That Pelvis Far From ONT

—WeirdDave

Howdy-ho, neighborinos! Europe seems to be using the book as a how to guide.

Posted by WeirdDave at 10:00 PM Comments

Ainu Cafe

—Ace

Tolkien doorofStEdwardsChurchGloucestershireEngland.jpg

The "Tolkein Door" of St. Edwards Church in Gloucester, England
"Speak Friend and Enter"

I hope I'm not getting Hulk Hoganed again.

Raising a teeny-tiny orphaned puma.

Freshest steaks in town.

The best watchdog is a lion.

Instagram (IG): Rhinos drive lions out of their territory.

IG: Driving an RV through Ireland.

IG: Rutting bison battle for mates.

This glacier thought the boat had a sexy ass.

Dog really enjoys the song Back, Back, Back It Up.

Little tiger cub.

Tiger swimming underwater.

The View at the beach.

Little girls are so much easier to raise than boys. Truth Rating: Incomplete.

I help.

A mother deer broke her leg. A family took her in and immobilized her leg so it could heal. Now the deer and the fawn are frequent visitors.

Harry Potter fantasy achievement unlocked.

This baby is an easy crowd.

Bird rocks out to Ozzy.

Rescuing four abandoned sugar gliders.

Must... destroy... squirrels...

Posted by Ace at 08:00 PM Comments

The Week In Woke

—Ace

Trump signs an EO to push blue cities to clear the homeless off the streets.

The order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to reverse precedents that limit state and local governments' ability to commit people on streets who are at risk to themselves or others, according to a White House fact sheet obtained by The Hill.
It also requires interagency work on grants for states to enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping, loitering and squatting, and to track sex offenders. And, it requires redirecting funds to ensure people sleeping on streets and causing public disorder, and suffering from serious mental illness or addiction, are moved to facilities like treatment centers.

Additionally, the order requires that discretionary grants for substance use prevention, treatment and recovery do not go toward funding "drug injection sites or illicit drug use," and it aims to stop sex offenders who receive homelessness assistance from being housed with children and allows programs to house women and children exclusively.

Leftwing deplatforming-and-defamation organization Media Matters is on the verge of bankruptcy.

From Media Matters' ally The NYT:

The organization, which is funded by some of the Democratic Party's biggest donors, has racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months to defend itself against lawsuits by Elon Musk, in addition to investigations by Mr. Trump's Federal Trade Commission and Republican state attorneys general.
The group has slashed the size of its staff and scrambled to raise more cash from skittish donors, according to documents and interviews with 11 people familiar with the organization's fight to survive.

Feds charge "Medicaid Millionaire" with fraud.

Louisiana 'Medicaid millionaire' bought Lamborghini while claiming government benefits for years Investigators say Taylor flaunted luxury lifestyle on social media while fraudulently receiving government benefits
Not so fast.

A Louisiana woman who purchased a Lamborghini while fraudulently obtaining Medicaid benefits is facing a fraud charge, authorities said this week.

Candace Taylor, 35, of Slidell, dubbed the "Medicaid millionaire" by the office of Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, was arrested Monday. The state Bureau of Investigation began looking into Taylor after receiving a complaint from the Louisiana Health Department saying she underreported her income to qualify for Medicaid benefits.

"From 2021 through 2024, Ms. Taylor continued to transfer tens of thousands of dollars between her personal and business accounts, with personal inflows consistently exceeding the eligibility thresholds for Medicaid," the affidavit directly states.

Medicaid provides health insurance for low-income adults and children. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments. The federal government establishes parameters for states to follow. However, each state administers their Medicaid program differently.

Taylor initially applied for Medicaid in May 2019 under the alias Candace Sailor, listing a bi-weekly income of $1,900 and no dependents, authorities said. That application was denied.

Less than a year later, she re-applied under the same misspelled name, prosecutors said. She was allegedly inconsistent with the years she reported having a dependent.

Investigators eventually discovered she owned six different businesses that generated more than $9.5 million between January 2020 and December 2024, according to court documents.

More hospitals are dropping their "gender affirming" genital mutilation services.

The Trump administration is definitely on a roll. Last month the LA Children's hospital announced that it would be shutting down the largest gender-affirming care clinic in the United States, the Center for Transyouth Health and Development. Then a week ago Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC made a similar announcement. This week several more hospitals and medical groups have followed suit.

Sexton reports that Connecticut's Children's Medical Center and Yale New Haven Health have ended their barbaric butcheries, as well as the University of Chicago Medical Center.

And -- this is a big one, because it operates in eight states -- Kaiser Permamente.

Awww: Axios is sad that the FTC is investigating whether Children Mutilation Chop-Shops are making false claims about their experimental surgeries.

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday launched an inquiry into whether health providers are failing to disclose risks connected with gender-affirming care or are making false claims about its benefits.
Why it matters: The action could help make the case for using unfair competition laws to crack down on health providers, by asserting gender-affirming care involves deceptive claims, legal analysts say.

Driving the news: The FTC solicited public comment through Sept. 26 from consumers who "may have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about 'gender-affirming care,' especially as it relates to minors."

The move followed a public workshop the FTC held in early July to "gauge the harms consumers may be experiencing" surrounding gender-affirming care for minors that featured prominent critics of youth gender-affirming care.

The agency justified its involvement by saying its role is to assess whether medical professionals have violated parts of the FTC Act by failing to disclose risks connected with gender-affirming care or making false or unsubstantiated claims about its benefits or effectiveness.

Reality check: Gender-affirming care for minors is supported by major medical organizations including the American Medical Association.

LOL. "The leftwing organizations dominated and whip-sawed by the radical transgender cult says this is all great, and that's all you need to know."

No surprise: "Scientific" and medical publications prioritize woke political propaganda over actual science.

We began by conducting a keyword search of every article published in the JAMA Network--a group of 13 medical journals affiliated with the American Medical Association--between April 1 and May 31. The phrase "diversity, equity, and inclusion" appeared 56 times, more often than atherosclerosis (45) and osteoporosis (16). Another progressive-coded term, "inequity," showed up 99 times--more than asthma (75) or opioid use disorder (65).

All of these papers are left-leaning, according to AI analyses.

DEI-inspired scientific studies are often plagued by poor design: sampling bias, lack of proper control groups, leading survey questions, and circular reasoning. Researchers frequently treat incidental associations as proof of causation. These methodological flaws are baked into published papers, which then get cited, flaws and all, by others. Over time, some DEI-based studies acquire unwarranted credibility and authority.
Take Brad Greenwood and colleagues' research from 2020, which claimed that "newborn-physician racial concordance"--meaning the child and the doctor are the same race--"is associated with a significant improvement in mortality for Black infants." But the original authors failed to control for babies with very low birth weight. When Manhattan Institute researchers replicated the study, they found that racial concordance had no such effect. Nonetheless, the original study has received more than 800 citations, including 21 by articles within the JAMA Network.

Another study with similar left-wing premises has also made the rounds. Kelly Hoffman and colleagues claimed in a 2016 paper that "Black Americans are systematically undertreated for pain relative to white Americans." Their conclusion was based on a sample of 194 medical students and 28 residents, with no attending physicians included except for "10 experienced physicians," whose recommendations served as the benchmark against which sample participants' knowledge was evaluated.

In one of the paper's two case vignettes, these physicians identified narcotics as the appropriate pain management for kidney stones. Had they consulted the 7th edition of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual from 2012, however, those physicians would have known that NSAIDs are the "primary analgesic of choice" for that condition, not opiates. While this error calls into question the study's conclusions, the paper nevertheless has been cited over 3,000 times, according to Google Scholar.

Nepo baby and former celebrity Jamie Lee Curtis calls plastic surgery a "disfigurement."

Sounds like she's talking about her Freak Friday co-star Lindsay Lohan.

Jamie Lee Curtis is condemning Hollywood's obsession with plastic surgery for "disfiguring" generations of women.
"The concept that you can alter the way you look through chemicals, surgical procedures, fillers -- there's a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances," the "Freakier Friday" star said in a new interview with the Guardian.

"It is aided and abetted by AI, because now the filter face is what people want. I'm not filtered right now. The minute I lay a filter on and you see the before and after, it's hard not to go, 'Oh, well that looks better.' But what's better? Better is fake."

To drive her point across even further, Curtis, 66, rocked a pair of oversized wax lips -- which she personally bought from Amazon -- to her accompanying photo shoot with the outlet.

"The wax lips is my statement against plastic surgery," she proclaimed. "I've been very vocal about the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who've disfigured themselves. The wax lips really sends it home."

Curtis then defended her use of the word "genocide," recalling its definition of the deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. She said she uses it "specifically" because it's a "strong" word.

I don't mind her criticism of the cosmetic surgery industry. What has me scratching my head, though, is her unqualified support for experimental cosmetic surgeries to "affirm gender."

Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon is investigating five fake universities for prioritizing illegal aliens over actual US citizens.

Defund and decertify. We have too many fake universities pumping out uneducated students and giving them fake Participation Trophies of Learning as it is.

A drag queen brings a six-year-old dressed in drag to gyrate for the assembled perverts at a Belfast "pride" festival.

Posted by Ace at 07:00 PM Comments

Mark Halperin: Biden's Inner Circle Is Threatening Kamala Harris That If She Dishes About His Cogntivie Impairment, They'll Start Admitting How Incompetent She Is

—Ace

So now the very mean old man, the most absurdly thin-skinned moron narcissist on the planet -- whoops, except for Jasmine Ratchet -- is threatening Kamala Harris that if she discusses Biden's dementia in her stupid book, they'll open the vaults about her.

During Friday's edition of his "Morning Meeting" newsletter on his 2WAY platform, Halperin dropped a not-so-subtle warning: if Harris ever turns on Biden, the former autopen president's handlers are ready to unleash a barrage of "embarrassing" information to put her in her place.
"I'm going to break a little news here, okay? We talk all the time about what did Kamala Harris know and when did she know it about his cognitive decline... if the Biden people decide that Kamala Harris is coming after Joe Biden, wait till you hear the Palinesque stories about how much they tried to help her be prepared to be vice president and be in a position to run and how much they decided: not happening," Halperin explained.

"And if the Biden people feel threatened, you will hear stories about Kamala Harris as vice president that will not make her look good. Okay? So there's a closeness to the couples -- it's not like they're at war currently -- but I'm telling you, if Joe Biden feels threatened, if his people feel threatened by her, this is going to escalate in a big way," he added.

I mean, I think he was making a similar threat during the campaign. Biden must have told her "Do not EVER disagree with any of my policy choices" -- why else would she have claimed she could not think of a single decision Biden had made that she would have decided differently?

She couldn't possibly be that stupid, could she? Certainly she had her allies in the media repeating the spin that she would govern completely differently than she had previously promised, so she was aware that the progressive policy ship was sinking.

Maybe this is all an okey-doke, with the two people no one wants to hear from ever again promising major revelations in their horrible books just to drive up sales.

Or maybe is real and will be entertaining.

Earlier I said that Kamala's political career was over, and she was essentially admitting that in saying she doesn't "wanna go back" to the "broken system."

But Biden's top advisor Mike Donillon says she's running in 2028:

Posted by Ace at 06:16 PM Comments

Trump Signs EO Reversing Obama's Ending of the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, Marking the Beginning of Trump GAINZZZ

—Ace

America will no longer be celebrating weakness and slothfulness as some kind of special virtue of the very unhealthy.

WATCH LIVE: President Trump signs EO restoring the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition https://t.co/a5AA3qcXuG
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 31, 2025

For as long as I've been alive, leftists, hippies, health nuts, and Food-Worriers have demanded we remove artificial ingredients -- like chemical food dyes -- from our food.

Fifty years of demands on this front yielded no results.

Until now.

And the response from the left? Silent fuming.

#6 – FDA approves new natural blue food dye from gardenia fruit.

Artificial dyes are being phased out en masse while clean, natural ingredients are taking over.

Big win for MAHA.

Video: @EricLDaugh pic.twitter.com/wwYs7p2CDI
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) July 14, 2025

.@DrMakaryFDA on artificial food dyes: "Studies have shown that they are linked to Attention Deficit Disorder... The FDA normally approves a natural color as a food dye once every couple years — well we just approved 4 and we're going to approve 2 more in the next few months." pic.twitter.com/gLcQ33s4Rt
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 1, 2025

Nestle has just announced they plan to remove food dyes from ALL of its products by 2026

Big win for MAHA! pic.twitter.com/OIfl9CupkD
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 26, 2025

I can see right-leaning people, who don't want the government intruding into our lives or consumer choices, and who are up to their eye teeth with constant Food-Worrying, sitting on their hands for this.

But leftists? Leftists who have been demanding this for half a century?

One begins to suspect that they believe exactly none of the things they claim to believe, and that what they really believe in is Marxism, and all of their relentless attacks on normal society aren't about the issues they claim they're arguing about but only about undermining and hollowing out normal society so that the Great Communist Revolution can come and sweep it all away.

Some preamble for this next link: I don't want to insist that you believe the new thinking on corn syrup/fructose. You may well think, "They're literally telling us that this or that is poison every ten years before reversing themselves later."

But here's my pitch: Whether or not you buy it, it's been a steady buzz in health circles -- and the awful media -- that corn syrup/fructose is not a "healthy" sugar, but is in fact a sugar even more unhealthy than sucrose. Fructose is processed in the liver, unlike other sugars, and American livers are already over-taxed due to our high obesity rates and diabetes rates and exploding rates of fatty liver disease.

Anti-sugar campaigner Dr. Robert Lustig insists it's the most poisonous of all sugars.

I'm not saying you have to buy any of that. I'm not sure I buy the claim that one sugar is "better" than another. They're both bad, at least in the enormous quantities we now consume them in.

I am saying the media has bought into this idea, and has previously reported that high-fructose corn syrup is driving our high obesity rates.

Until now, that is. Trump badgered Coca-Cola into dropping the high fructose corny syrup from its sodas and replacing it with cane sugar (as Mexican Coke is sweetened with, which is then imported into the US by people who say it just tastes better).

So as soon as Trump Does It, NBC "News" is suddenly pro-HFCS.

Again, my point isn't about HFCS itself, but how the media routinely does complete 180's whenever Trump endorses a policy.

This was going on pre-Trump, of course. For thirty years, the media enjoyed saying that all Republican efforts to cut government spending were utterly useless because the only real way to reduce the deficit was to rein in Social Security and Medicare spending.

Then, in 2012, Mitt Romney and his political fuckboy Paul Ryan actually grabbed that third rail and did what the media had shouted for thirty years was the "eat your vegetables" solution to fixing the nation's finances and proposed very modest reforms to Social Security and Medicare.

And the media demonized them for doing exactly what they said must be done for three decades straight.

I'll never forget that. And it's why I forgive Trump for not having the "bravery" to address this issue: Because we all saw what happened the last time someone proposed doing what the media insisted must be done.

So: Are you making GAINZZZ for Trump?

I had Trump GAINZZZ for a couple of weeks and then this last week I became Low-Energy Jeb.

I would just like the weather to not to "feel like" 100 degrees plus, alternating with heavy rain. I would so much enjoy that.

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 05:30 PM Comments

CEO of Jaguar Steps Down After Disastrous Rebrand of Storied Car Company as Trans-Portation

—Ace

He turned a man's brand into a trans brand.

But men are 49% of the market (actually, more like 90% for a sportscar) and the trans market is.... slightly less than that, right?

Mardell, 64, has been at the company for more than three decades including the last two years as chief executive during one of the most transformative periods in the firm's recent history.
This includes spearheading a remarkable financial turnaround for the company, which has seen it bounce back from heavy losses and debt around the beginning of the 2020s to posting its best profits for a decade last year.

JLR reported a pre-tax profit of £2.5billion in 2024-25.

But arguably Mardell's biggest involvement has been his role in Jaguar's controversial 'woke' rebrand and shift to an electric-only premium car brand from 2026 - including the unveiling of the polarising Type 00 concept.

A spokesperson for JLR told the Daily Mail: 'Adrian Mardell has expressed his desire to retire from JLR after three years as CEO and 35 years with the company. His successor will be announced in due course.'

He will reportedly leave the role on 31 December.

...

Its success has been driven by record wholesale volumes of its Defender 4X4s, which sold 115,404 units over the 12-month period.

In contrast, just 26,862 Jaguars were sold worldwide in the financial year - a 45.8 per cent drop - after production of all models ceased in November as part of a planned 'sunset period' for the manufacturer, its dealers and its customers to prepare for the company's hotly-debated electrified relaunch.

American Eagle has issued a response to ugly cat ladies unashamedly showing their envy and resentment that a white woman is getting more attention online than they are.

No, it's not this one. This one is a parody, though most wish American Eagle would endorse it:

American Eagle's genuine response is good enough: They are defiant, and they say, correctly, that a bunch of ugly harpies coping on TikTok and BlueSky is not real life, and that their own polling shows that 71% of respondents like the ad:

At the Federalist, Rich Cromwell writes that this contretemps, as stupid as it is, is important. It shows that the mentally-ill, unaccomplished social-media-addicted nobodies who have bullied, harrassed, and deplatformed us for ten years are shrieking because they're realizing they have no power here.

They are nameless and formless and accursed. Like Sauron, they are now banished to the void from whence they came.

Given that denim is one of American Eagle's staples and that Sweeney is rather attractive, it's a brilliant pitch replete with a dad-level pun. At least, it's a brilliant pitch to not insane people. For the insane, though, it's "Nazi propaganda," "Nazi fascism," and "an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness."
[T]he completely unhinged and disproportionate response to the campaign shows the inmates who have been running the asylum are losing the plot in real time.

For starters, it's an advertisement for blue jeans and, to be honest, not exactly an original one. Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic marketing, people are talking, and American Eagle's stock trended upward as a result. But using attractive people to sell products isn't some revolutionary idea. It's basically the foundation of advertising, albeit one that was briefly lost to the siren song of "inclusive beauty," which, lol. Businesses may pretend to care about social causes and stakeholders, and there are definitely true believers ensconced in almost every Fortune 500 company out there, but at the end of the day, the purpose of business is to make money, not engineer social change.

But the brief stranglehold the inmates held over businesses gave them a false sense of security, of permanence. They thought they'd won the war, whereas we can now see that they only won a few victories and that those victories were not exactly strategic ones.

...

Much has been made of the vibe shift, which is truly a thing of beauty, especially to those of us old enough to witness the descent into madness over the past decade, but the thing is, the vibe really has shifted. And those whose worldview and, more importantly, income streams depend on fomenting controversy are on the ropes. They may preach equity, but as always, some pigs deserve a little more equity than others.

As such, don't get upset at the dying media for its desperate attempt to cling to the old vibes, to keep beating fascist Nazi colonial whiteness tropes into a bloody pulp better suited for a muumuu than a pair of nice-fitting jeans. (Did I just commit white supremacy by discussing muumuus, insane people of the internet? If so, please let me know on your preferred social media site!)

John Ekdahl @JohnEkdahl
It cracks me up that for three or four years, people have been scratching their heads and saying "hey, where'd all the white people go in commercials?"

Now they bring one white girl back and it's a five alarm Nazi fire.

Allahpundit's favorite MSNBC host Chris Hayes agreed that it's a "problem" that Democrats have to answer for the silly posts made by rando nobodies, like racists insisting that white women are no longer permitted to be "centered" in advertising campaigns.

He apparently doesn't read MSNBC itself, which published a hit-piece saying, essentially, that any ad featuring white people is an insidious backslide into White Supremacy.

this really is a problem! https://t.co/nHosBKWFZE
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 31, 2025

Your news outlet published this story. The freak-out over the Sweeney ad isn’t just coming from a few small liberal accounts https://t.co/OLvbZSMRUA pic.twitter.com/facBHHUdIC
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 31, 2025

Not just MSNBC, of course:

Holy crap, Good Morning America on Disney owned ABC ran a story this morning saying the Sydney Sweeney clothing ad is connected to Nazis. Legacy media is dead: pic.twitter.com/IcPmRJr8R0
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 29, 2025

Black Conservative Perspective compiled more desperate, envious nobodies boohoo whinin' and cryin' that a white girl appeared on their computers without their consent.

This one's a gem -- in addition to claiming that it's white supremacy for any white woman to claim to be hot, she also rips her fellow leftwing lunatics for... not wearing masks in public, which she says is its own kind of White Supremacy because covid affects mostly "brown and black people" or something.

shitlibs are policing other shitlibs for criticizing the Sydney Sweeney ad while not wearing COVID masks (this is real) pic.twitter.com/AQ4YFnONyd
— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) July 30, 2025

In case you didn't hear: the newest rage of Current Year, the fight against "eugenics" (a word that stupid lefties just discovered, so they have to repeat it endlessly like four year olds who just learned a new word) has entered its second week.

Dunkin Donuts ran an ad featuring a blond-haired, blue eyed guy calling himself "The King of Summer" and saying that his coloration -- "golden sun" -- was genetic.

And the left went into Genetic Convulsions again:

OMG, now the liberal snowflakes on TikTok are being triggered by a Dunkin Donuts commercial 😂😂

Enjoy this one 👇😂 pic.twitter.com/SebdCzXgZf
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) July 30, 2025

Ed Morrissey talks about the Vibe Shift hitting Madison Ave:

And what is that lesson? It's pretty simple: Normal people are normal. They respond to normal stimuli, such as attractive young women and men in advertising pitches. They don't mind looking at "kings of summer" or svelte starlets in TV and print spots. In fact, normal people tend to prefer it.
Mainly, though, normal people don't like being lectured about social-justice causes in sales pitches, or in other forms of entertainment. They have grown sick and tired of it, in fact, so much so that they are responding very enthusiastically to advertising campaigns that either eschew it, as Sweeney's jeans campaign does, or deliberately provoke the Lefty lecture circuit, as Dunkin' Donuts is doing. The days of Bud Light and other woke products scolding their customers is over, and ad companies have figured that out.

For years they have demanded that the entire world "decenter whiteness." Whites should no longer appear in commercials, and when they appear in commercials, they can only be part of mixed-race families.

The woke racists insisted that corporations and all of society join them in denouncing whiteness and insisting that whites should hide their shameful pale faces and pass the torch to the Superior Races of non-white people.

They're just fighting racism, doncha know

And yes, Black Conservative Perspective compiled a bunch of people, mostly woke white progressives trying to gain credibility with minorities by insisting that it's time white people passed the torch and exit the stage, boohoo whinin' and cryin' about the silly Dunkin Donuts ad.

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Posted by Ace at 04:35 PM Comments

A Cultural Enricher With 43 Prior Counts of Aggravated Cultural Enrichment Attempts to Kidnap a Child at a Virginia Mall

—Ace

This is in super-progressive, tyrannical Fairfax County, where they cover up "transgender" boys' forcible sodomization of girls in the bathroom so as not to upset The Bigots.

Of course it's also a Sanctuary County.

Virginians 4 Safe Communities @VA4SafeComm
Fairfax Child Kidnapping Suspect Andres Caceres Jaldin has 30+ charges including Malicious Wounding (Att Murder) & was FREE to victimize kids thanks to Fairfax Soros Prosecutor Steve Descano

BREAKING: Surveillance footage captures the abduction of a girl at a Fairfax, Virginia mall by an immigrant with prior police encounters. pic.twitter.com/bz42Z5LuwY
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) July 31, 2025

A man with 43 prior charges—including attempted murder and assault—was released without bail by Fairfax officials.

Three days later, he tried to kidnap a toddler from a Virginia mall.

🧵 pic.twitter.com/ATVwIqNBg2
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) August 1, 2025

White? Boy, for a Regime that is built on identify whites and then discriminating against them, they sure seem to be overly "inclusive" in the category of whiteness when it comes to crime.

Winsome Earl-Sears is now running to replace Glenn Youngkin as governor in Virginia, but she's currently behind leftwing CIA Deep State bitch Abigail Spanberger, who is pretending to be a "moderate."

Some good news on the illegal alien deportation front:

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_
BREAKING: US Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks reports a new record monthly low at the southern border - only 4,399 Border Patrol apprehensions in July, beating the prior record low of 6,070 in June. Zero releases into the US again.

Average of 141 apprehensions per day in July. It's unheard of for the nearly 2,000 mile long southern border.

Biden record high December 2023: 249,785 (majority released)
Trump record low July 2025: 4,399 (zero released)

Ali Bradley @AliBradleyTV
EXCLUSIVE: Lawful permanent resident from Mexico with multiple child sex offenses was arrested in a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation this morning in El Paso, Texas.

He will now be processed and go before an immigration judge to face deportation.

ICE/ERO, HSI, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals were all involved on the op that took at least a week to plan.

Attorney General James Uthmeier @AGJamesUthmeier
Yesterday, we announced the arrest of over 40 pedophiles, and 7 are now on ICE holds.

Orange County believes they shouldn't transport these depraved criminals to ICE for deportation at the end of their sentences.

We reject that belief.

Follow the law.

DHS statement to @FoxNews on these ICE arrests yesterday via @TriciaOhio: pic.twitter.com/t1xsXpImaK
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 30, 2025

But, of course, the left keeps fighting to keep this country filled with foreign invasionary pedophiles: A black female DEI Biden appointee just asserted that Trump doesn't have the power to undo prior executive orders and take countries off the list for automatic asylum.

If she's going to make this all about race, I will too.

She says that Trump is showing "racial animus" and presumes, on this basis, to take over the powers of the presidency.

A San-Francisco-based federal judge on Friday blocked the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to cancel temporary protected status (TPS) for recipients from Nepal, Nicaragua, and Honduras.
Judge Trina Thompson asserted that Trump administration officials had demonstrated a likely racial motivation for the cancellation and paused the deadline for them to leave the country.

"The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek. Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees," she asserted.

If this reads to you more as an impassioned political stump speech from a crazed demagogue more than a judicial ruling: Congratulations, you read at an age-appropriate level.

"The Court orders that the TPS terminations shall be postponed to preserve the status quo and until a hearing on the merits on November 18, 2025. Postponement will be subject to extension at the November 18, 2025 hearing."
The move is a blow to Trump's efforts to speedily deport large swathes of immigrants and another instance of a federal judge blocking White House policy, even after the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of nationwide injunctions.

Exactly as Predicted, EU Law Supposedly Intended to Protect Children from Porn Is Immediately Deployed Against Its Real Target: Political Speech by Adults That is Critical of the Failing, Traitorous Regime

—Ace

Trump is warning effeminate ponce Keir Starmer that if the EU continues using this law to stifle Americans' speech, there's going to be big trouble.

White House warns Starmer: Stop threatening US tech companies' free speech Members of Donald Trump's administration monitoring Online Safety Act with 'great interest and concern'
The White House has warned Sir Keir Starmer to stop threatening American tech companies amid mounting backlash over Britain's online safety law.

Members of Donald Trump's administration are monitoring the Online Safety Act with "great interest and concern" after key allies said it was censoring free speech and imposing unfair burdens on US businesses.

The law, which regulates online speech, allows the British government to levy massive fines on companies like Apple, Truth Social, and X if it finds that rules on hate speech have been broken.

Those in the president's inner circle see the potential penalties as an unwarranted foreign intervention into American free speech.

"President Trump has made it clear that free speech is one of our most cherished freedoms as Americans," a senior US State Department official told The Telegraph.
"Accordingly, we have taken decisive action against foreign actors who have engaged in extraterritorial censorship affecting our companies and fellow citizens.

"We will continue to monitor developments in the UK with great interest and concern."

Since the law came into effect last week, Ofcom, the UK's online regulator, has written to several American firms ordering them to conform to the act, in letters seen by The Telegraph.

It has sparked outrage from US lawmakers and legal experts, who say the overreach is a threat by the UK to silence American companies and citizens.

Congressman Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary GOP committee, said the law was an attack on American companies.

"Ask Apple and they would view it as a $500 million attack," he told The Telegraph.
"There's general concern... and then there's concern on how this impacts American citizens, American companies and infringes on our First Amendment.

"As long as foreign legislators, judges, and regulators continue their attempts to silence US citizens, we will not stop fighting back."

...

During his meeting with the Prime Minister in Scotland, Mr Trump warned Sir Keir not to censor his social-media platform, Truth Social.

"Well, I don't think he's going to censor my site, because I say only good things," Mr Trump said.

There's new news about the Rotherham racist Muslim rape gangs:

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11
Incredibly disturbing new details out of the UK reveal that not only were countless little girls raped by migrant grooming gangs, but when they went for help, many were raped again by the police. Take one guess who was staffing the police departments.

So in the UK:

-Authorities ignored migrant grooming and rape gangs because prosecuting them might lead to accusations of racism
-Victims of Pakistani rape gangs who went to the police were instead raped again by the police themselves (who were of Pakistani origin).
-In other cases, police leaked the accusations of victims to perpetrators, who then threatened the victims.
-Judges in Islamic rape cases have allowed defense lawyers to spend entire trials calling grooming gang victims sluts, then denied the release of court transcripts to hide that this happened.
-The government is currently weighing a formal definition of "Islamophobia" that would include linking grooming gangs to Islamic immigration.
-Local governments are hiring "Sharia law administrators"
-Mass censorship is used to cover up protests against this as well as criminally punish those who complain

Is Great Britain just a gigantic Epstein Island?

Yes. Here's the link to the BBC story. Yes, when women went to the Rotherham police to report sexual abuse and r*pe by "Asians," the Asian police at the station also sexually abused them.

We're hitting levels of Cultural Enrichment that shouldn't even be possible.

This issue was discussed in Parliament -- and the discussion in Parliament was censored, with censors citing the "Online Safety Act's" forbiddance of "hate speech."

They cannot win on the immigration issue -- the public is now roused and demanding changes -- so they just claim that anyone urging reforms of immigration law is trafficking in "hate speech" and that it is criminal to make those arguments.

The Online Safety Act has now restricted some users from viewing a speech in parliament about Pakistani grooming gangs.

How is that protecting children? Big brother madness. pic.twitter.com/OfahPLPx1K
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) July 27, 2025

The British public is angry:

Has a British Government ever appeared so terrified of its own people? More to the point, can you think of one that deserved it more?
The social contract has been shredded. You go to work and pay your taxes for a state that seems to be crumbling into disrepair. In exchange, the Government takes your money, and uses it to fund an alleged secret scheme to fly in Taliban fighters to live on your street. But don't worry -- we've got a new "elite police squad" to prevent trouble.

That police unit won't be patrolling your neighbourhood to keep you safe from harm. Rather, it will be tasked with scouring social media for protest pre-crime, monitoring your opinions for anti-migrant sentiment. The police might not have enough resources to deal with shoplifting. They might not have solved a single theft or burglary, or recover a stolen bike, across a third of England. But we are to believe they have resources for what really counts: scrutinising your views for wrongthink.

The current state of affairs is so absurd that simply writing it down feels almost subversive. But each element is true: we do appear to have flown unvetted Taliban members into Britain. The Government really will be watching your posts for signs of dissent. This isn't some accident, some Civil Service blunder. It's by design. It truly appears that Labour's strategy is to impose ever more restrictions on the freedoms of the law-abiding, in the hope that eventually people will acquiesce with a resigned shrug.

The problem is that it isn't working. The population is fed up with being punished for doing the right thing. The hectoring about slavery, imperialism, war and all the other iniquities of history used to justify sacrificing our comforts and liberties on the altar of mass migration is no longer having the desired effect. British citizens living today did not build the empire. They didn't enslave anyone. Why should they foot the bill for housing illegal migrants up in four star hotels in central London? Why should they put up with them working in the shadow economy?

Unfortunately for the Government, the previously silent majority is beginning to vocally express its frustration. MPs and ministers are fearful that the country is becoming a "tinderbox". But even this isn't enough to convince them that we must change course.

Keir Starmer’s brain just malfunctioned.

Reporter: "Trump makes it look easy dealing with illegal migration. You must be envious of his record in such a short period of time."

Starmer: eh um errr can’t compute pic.twitter.com/GdWgt3aH64
— Billboard Chris 🌎 (@BillboardChris) July 28, 2025

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Posted by Ace at 02:45 PM Comments

Angry Boxed-Wine Connoisseur AWFL Says She's Totally Proud to Have Written the ICA and the "Steele Dossier" Might Be True

—Ace

A Brennan stooge named Susan Miller was recruited to write up RussiaGate "reports" which ultimately served as the foundation of the ICA that kicked off RussiaGate.

Actually she claims to have written the ICA itself, which seems to be, what's the word, a lie. But more on that later.

She has now re-emerged to claim that all of her sexless partisan fantasies about Trump and Putin might have, maybe, been halfway true.

The retired CIA spy who says she led the team that helped draft the controversial 2016 U.S. intelligence community assessment on Russian election meddling has called Donald Trump a "dictator" and MAGA supporters "Nazis" -- and insists that the now-discredited Steele dossier "might be true."
Susan Miller, a recently-retired CIA counterintelligence officer, has taken to social media and news media interviews in recent days to tell the story of how she was allegedly hand-picked by former CIA Director John Brennan to lead the team which helped draft the ICA in late 2016, gleefully exposing her anti-Trump sentiments.

She has repeatedly suggested that Trump might be a "Russian asset" or a "Kremlin asset" without providing any evidence, despite recent reports showing that calmer, less politically-driven voices in the intelligence community at the time cast doubt on such allegations, but were squelched by Brennan.

No proof, but it "might" be true?

Miller has also repeatedly claimed in recent weeks that British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier might be true, despite the dossier having been thoroughly discredited for years now by a special prosecutor, congressional probes, and even the CIA itself.

She has also claimed that some officials inside the CIA -- whom she refused to name -- had wanted her ICA team to declare that Trump's win was illegitimate due to Russian meddling. She has admitted that although the ICA did not come to that conclusion, she has suggested that her team may have been able to reach that finding if it had been able to poll every single voter to see if they had been swayed by Russian meddling.

According to the University of California at Santa Barbara, 136,787,187 people voted in the 2016 election.

Miller has also sent mixed messages, saying that the ICA team had found "no collusion" when they were writing their assessment in late 2016, and even claimed that this "no collusion" finding was made clear in the ICA. In fact, the ICA's major reference to collusion was a direct citation to a two-page annex on the Steele dossier.

The 2016 ICA was written at the direction of President Barack Obama and largely overseen by Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and since-fired FBI Director James Comey. It was finished in December 2016, with a publicly declassified version released in early January 2017 and a more extensive classified version declassified and released last week.

...

Miller has also said she doesn't remember basic facts about the ICA timeline, including when Trump was first elected and when the CIA and her ICA team allegedly first received purportedly key intelligence about Putin's motivations. Miller even forgot whether the intelligence had come in before or after Trump's win.

She also couldn't remember if the ICA team she says she led had access to intelligence on a personal directive from Putin himself or not.

Miller decried Ratcliffe's lessons-learned review as a political hit job and claimed that none of it was true, before admitting that key allegations in Ratcliffe's report, including about Brennan insisting that the dossier be included in the ICA, were probably accurate.

She doesn't remember much about the twisting of intelligence, but she is absolutely sure that all criticisms of it are invalid.

...
Miller has used her LinkedIn account to repeatedly attack Trump since leaving the CIA last year.

The New York Times wrote an article in May titled, "FBI Dismantles Elite Public Corruption Squad." Miller's response on LinkedIn? "This is awful! Further proof that Trump is a dictator."

Miller also supported analogies between Trump and Adolf Hitler. An ABC News article from February said that "The Diplomatic Security Service is being targeted for firings. Why that matters: Analysis." A commenter from the United Kingdom said, "I'm just a Brit (you know, that little island off the coast of Europe that stood up to Hitler) but I have to say that harming DSS would be equivalent to shooting yourself in the foot." Miller replied, "Yes....the Hitler analogy is not lost on a bunch of us.....sadly...."

Much more at the article. This woman is clearly a lunatic.

She's also a liar. When JustTheNews contacted her to ask about her clear anti-Trump bias, she claimed she was actually a Republican who was "pro-Trump" and actually voted for Trump.

She... voted for Trump in 2016? And then a month later wrote memos accusing him of being a Russian agent and a reincarnated Hitler?

No, you're a liar and mentally unwell. If she "voted for Trump," then she did so in a primary because Democrats believed Trump would be easy to defeat in the general.

She looks just like you'd expect: Not like a happy, pretty Republican woman who has good relations with men, but an angry, masculine wine-box-demolshing harpy whose husband decided he couldn't take her any longer so now she's going to get Revenge On ALL the Men.

It even turns out that she's lying when she repeatedly claims to have written the ICA itself.

She actually didn't. She's just resorting to that beloved tactic of leftwing power-mad women, Resume Padding.

In response to last week's damning official document release about a now-infamous intelligence document that helped launch years of Russiagate madness, CNN wrote:
Retired CIA official Susan Miller, an author of the agency's 2017 intelligence report on Russian election meddling...

No, she's not.

"Not an author. Not involved," says a senior intelligence official.

"There's a chance she's on some emails or something like that," adds another person familiar with the investigation. "But she's not the author of the ICA... she wasn't leading this effort. So it's just totally bizarre that she claims the opposite."

As if Russiagate weren't a weird enough story already, the sudden appearance of mysterious former CIA officer Susan Miller in a high-profile media campaign reduces the affair to a freak show. In a story about one of the most elaborate media frauds in history, in which the CIA used phony intelligence to prop up a rushed report insisting Russian President Vladimir Putin meddled in the 2016 election on behalf of Donald Trump, it's only fitting that the person leading the media defense of the original intelligence is not an author of the report in question and may not be significantly involved at all.

In a detail Jonathan Swift might have written, Miller is set to receive the Hidden Hero Award in November from the International Spy Museum in Washington, given to the official who makes "outsized contributions to the intelligence community." Racket made multiple attempts to ask Miller about her role with the ICA. She did not respond.

However, we were about to go to press when Joe MacKinnon of Blaze media excellently beat us to the punch on this story. MacKinnon received an amusing two-part response from Miller. First:

My team and I at CIA wrote a CIA analysis about Russian influence on the election.

Second:

This was a CIA report, briefed to Trump by our then-director, and by me to the Senate and congressional intelligence committees. The DNI used that report as the basis for the ICA... I indeed did not write the ICA, but the ODNI used my report as the basis for theirs.

That's not even a non-denial denial. It's an oops.

Why lie? Well, all of these grifters now rely on partisan payoffs, and there's a big difference in the Grifter Potential between someone who just worked at the CIA during RussiaGate and someone who "wrote the ICA" accusing Trump of being a Soviet spy.

Posted by Ace at 01:35 PM Comments

Kamala Harris: I Lost Because "The System" Is "Broken;" "Democracy" Failed to Position Me For Success

—Ace

Before that: Of course she's writing a book to cash in on her Massive Historic Failure.

The dollar figure of the deal is not yet known.

Kamala Harris is reemerging with a new project: a book titled 107 Days, chronicling her brief and unsuccessful 2024 presidential bid. In a video message Thursday, the former vice president said, "I believe there's value in sharing what I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward." She called the writing process one of "candor and reflection."
The book's title refers to the 107-day sprint from President Joe Biden's sudden withdrawal from the race on July 21, 2024, to Election Day. Harris, who stepped in as the Democrat nominee, initially surged in the polls but failed to sustain that momentum. She ultimately lost to President Donald Trump--both in the Electoral College and in the popular vote, breaking a two-decade streak for Democrats.

Harris said the campaign was "high-stakes and deeply personal," and that she's spent considerable time "reflecting on those days." Rumors of a book deal had circulated for months. CNN reported Thursday that the upcoming publication influenced Harris's decision not to pursue the California governorship, a race in which she was widely expected to be a top contender.

Stephen Colbert had this dweebcel politician on his show (of course).

I have constantly written about Kamala Harris's constant complaint -- when she fails, she claims that other people -- usually white men -- have "failed to position her for success." She proves with every utterance that she is nothing but an overpromoted DEI hire. Who else would expect everyone else to do her homework for her but a DEI hire who is endlessly promoted based not on performance but simply for her mere existence?

You can hear that again in her whining on the Colbert show. You see, the system is "broken." The evidence that it's broken is that the country didn't just give this Proud Woman of Color the win she was entitled to based simply on existing.

Pop Base @PopBase
Kamala Harris tells Stephen Colbert she decided not to run for Governor of California because the system is broken:

"For now, I don't wanna go back in the system. I think it's broken. [...] I always believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles and I think right now, they're not as strong as they need to be."

A DEI hire finally reached a level of incompetence that caused people to say "No, you've depleted your allotment of Social Promotions," and it's the fault of "democracy" and "our systems" and "most fundamental principles."

Nick Sortor @nicksortor
In the MOST amount of words possible, Kamala Harris admits President Trump BROKE her, which is why she doesn't want to run for Governor of California

"The system's broken... so I don't wanna go back into the system."

She just GAVE UP

Donors were skeptical of donating again to Kamala Harris. One said she "lacked fire in the belly," that is, she didn't seem like she really wanted to run for governor.

Or president.

She is basically acknowledging that by saying "I don't wanna go back into the system." Even if she attempts to un-retire from politics, donors will take this quote as confirming that she lacks "fire in the belly" and would just be running for the sake of appearances and to fill her bank accounts.

So even if she didn't intend it, this marks her official retirement from elective politics.

Today is a good day. The Trump Curse continues posting W after W.

In the MOST amount of words possible, Kamala Harris admits President Trump BROKE her, which is why she doesn’t want to run for Governor of California

“The system’s broken… so I don’t wanna go back into the system.”

She just GAVE UP 🤣 pic.twitter.com/AXDBG4vSMz
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 1, 2025

What the world saw on the campaign trail was only part of the story.

My new book is a behind-the-scenes look at my experience leading the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.

107 Days is out on September 23. I can't wait for you to read it: https://t.co/G4bkeZB4NZ pic.twitter.com/taUof0L4hs
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 31, 2025

In related news, Biden appeared at a leftwing bar association dinner and of course needed handholding and constant guidance just to get off the stage.

BREAKING: Former President Joe Biden walks onto the stage and gets LOST at the National Bar Association Gala.

He is NOT doing okay... pic.twitter.com/abHSCh0Jwu
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) August 1, 2025

Stephen Colbert also had on Democrat Senator and ex-CIA wannabe girlboss Elissa Slotkin, because of course he did. That's what audiences want to see -- dweeby, plain-faced drab Democrat drulls.

Slotkin presents herself as a CIA girl boss, but having been an analyst in the Iraq war is a freaking punchline. No intel agency in history every turned in a worse performance. Why doesn't some interviewer ask her to speak in Arabic? She claims to be fluent -- another joke https://t.co/1ayTTxYGDE
— Seth Harp (@sethharpesq) August 1, 2025

She wants to assure you that her fellow gonzo communist subversives in the CIA are just "good, corn fed" defenders of the republic.

And if they attempt to topple the duly-elected president of the United States in a coup, well, they're just doing that for you.

Tom Elliott @tomselliott
Former CIA analyst @ElissaSlotkin tells Colbert: "This idea that there's some network of people that are running the world, it doesn't really match reality ... The way that Trump is going after them is particularly -- first of all, it's nasty. Second of all, it's completely counter to our interests to be demoralizing the people that are protecting us."

By the way, "Corn Fed" usually describes a blond, blue-eyed Scandanavian-descended midwestern farmboy who is healthy and robust due to eating his own farm's corn in between doing heavy physical work.

In other words: She's promoting racial eugenics and Nazi fascism.

But that's okay because she's using eugenic-appeal to prop up the Deep State coupists.

She blew off an important Senate vote. She fake-apologized for blowing off the vote... while failing to admit what Very Important Mission required that absence.

She skipped out on the vote to go on Colbert's cancelled show, of course.

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Posted by Ace at 12:25 PM Comments

The Climate Hoax Is Being Canceled with the EPA Terminating the “Endangerment Finding”

—Buck Throckmorton

The foundation upon which federal government regulators have been empowered to impose climate communism is officially being been ripped away. Thanks (yet again) to the election of Donald Trump and his appointment of Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is implementing actions to rescind the 2009 “Endangerment Finding.”

As explained by our friends at The Heartland Institute in a press release this week:

The Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA in 2007 authorized the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases if the agency made the determination that global warming harms human health. In an appearance on the Ruthless Podcast this week, Zeldin said reversing the Endangerment Finding would be the “most significant deregulatory action in U.S. history.”

In other words, our rulers in robes at the Supreme Court decreed in 2007 that if the EPA were to determine that global warming, caused by “greenhouse gases,” endangers health, then the governing mechanisms of the United States that are found in the Constitution could be suspended. Thereafter, the EPA could assume command-and-control regulatory powers over every aspect of economic activity, so long as those activities involved “greenhouse gases.” Coincidentally, when you breathe, you are exhaling CO2, a “greenhouse gas.”

Conveniently enough, once Barack Obama became President in 2009, his EPA promptly ruled that “greenhouse gases in the atmosphere threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations.” This became known as the “Endangerment Clause.” This clause took specific aim at gasoline powered cars in stating that “greenhouse gases from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines contribute to the greenhouse gas pollution that threatens public health and welfare.”

The Endangerment Clause was the moment when the climate cult started worshiping electric vehicles, and regulators started working to mandate them. July 29, 2025 was the date that Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin put a stop to the madness.

“EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates” [EPA Press Office – 7/29/2025]

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris Administration’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate. If finalized, the proposal would repeal all resulting greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines, thereby reinstating consumer choice and giving Americans the ability to purchase a safe and affordable car for their family while decreasing the cost of living on all products that trucks deliver.
“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin. “In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year.”

This is a joyous moment. There is more work to do, but Trump and Zeldin have proved that they relish the battle.

Rather than come up with my own closing summary, I am simply going to quote Research Fellow Linnea Lueken from that same Heartland press release.

“The obsession over a trace gas is absurd, antiscientific, and has led to pain for Americans in the form of higher energy bills, overregulation of appliances, agriculture, and more. Basically, the Endangerment Finding gave unaccountable government agencies the ability to have a say over whatever they wanted, since every human activity results in the production of carbon dioxide. It never should have happened. The government should never have tried regulating a gas essential for life in the first place.”

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Posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM Comments

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Portrait of a Man with a Shell
Thomas de Keyser

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The Morning Report — 8/1/25

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. And welcome to August. The big story this morning is or at least should be, no not Sydney Sweeney's impressive décolletage nor even L'affaire" Epstein but the unshocking and unsurprising to you who are regular readers of this blog or otherwise aware of what's really going on, revelations by Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel of the verifiable plot to sabotage the campaign and then presidency of Donald Trump from 2016 right up until the present day by a cabal either led by or approved of by Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants involving some or all of the leadership of the American intelligence and law enfacement community that cooked up evidence via the so-called Steele Dossier that implicated Trump with Russian president Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election.

And now that Trump's team is exposing it and at least making the right noises about going after Brennan, Comey, Clapper et al, the traitorous rats are rearing up on their haunches and bearing their fangs while spouting the execrable hypocrisy that it is they that are being persecuted by Trump who is get this, politicizing and using the intelligence community as get this "Political footballs." It is to both laugh and vomit.

Discussing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s accusations of “treasonous conspiracy”, Brennan said, “So what they do is they misrepresent the facts, mischaracterize what is said, and then claim that we were engaged in this big conspiracy.” Brennan said, “It’s so unfortunate that partizan politics has now seeped into the highest levels of the intelligence community. And that’s why I think it’s important for us to continue to speak out, and trying to at least push out information about what actually did happen back in 2016 and what can continue to happen if we still ignore what the Russians do with our elections. ”

If there is a God in Heaven, surely John Brennan would be hanging from a noose for treason, until his eyeballs shot out of his commie pin-head like champagne corks. Real justice would be going back 40 odd years and finding every last individual at the CIA who cleared this hideous piece of shit and approved of his being hired in the first place. Dead or alive, they need to pay the piper for inflicting him on us.

You may recall that in the run-up to 2016, Hillary Clinton was known to have had what amounted to a server farm up at her home in Chappaqua where she stored thousands of classified files and documents during her tenure as Obama's secretary of state, no doubt in my mind that she, like Biden, was trading in state secrets with foreign governments including our rivals and enemies for cash.

According to the declassified files, Clinton personally approved a plan proposed by her foreign policy advisor, Julianne Smith, to “smear Donald Trump by magnifying the scandal tied to the intrusion by the Russian special services in the pre-election process to benefit the Republican candidate.” Smith was later appointed to serve as Ambassador to NATO under [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden.
One stunning email written by Open Society Foundations Senior Vice President Leonard Bernardo, dated July 27, 2016, stated: “HRC [Hillary Clinton] approved Julia’s [sic] idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections. That should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level.”

You will recall that on the campaign trail, when no one could find, nor had any interest in finding 33,000 of her e-mails that had gone missing, candidate Donald Trump quipped to the press that, paraphrasing "Maybe the KGB will have better luck in finding the missing e-mails!" And as Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory noted, that one obvious joke was transmogrified by the Democrats and their propaganda media allies as proof positive that Trump was colluding with Putin to steal the 2016 election. And the rest is a nightmare of history the echoes of which we are dealing with this very day, and will likely be dealing with well into the future.

As I fear, and judging from the top to bottom corruption that began long before Brennan, because Brennan's Comey's Clapper's and all the other co-conspirators' careers could only have been launched because of corrupt individuals that preceded them by years or even decades. And also because of the understandable fear of the political and even personal consequences of trying to prosecute these traitors, especially Clinton and even Obama, They will all go unpunished for sure if they are even prosecuted in the first place.

Sadly this incident and the traitorous evil manifests itself elsewhere, as this next waking nightmare of a story illustrates:

The group responsible for training Massachusetts police officers listed a prominent parental rights group alongside Antifa and neo-Nazis on its list of “hate groups.”
The Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee, which trains more than 20,000 police officers across the commonwealth, listed Moms for Liberty under “Hate Groups” active in Massachusetts in training materials, which were shared exclusively with The Daily Wire.

The bitterly ironic thing as you might have noted is that ANTIFA are the neo-Nazis! Frankly, I'm rather shocked they are listed as a so-called "hate group" considering they are supposedly "anti-fascist" (regardless of the actual real-world definition of that term). Of course the alleged watchdog organizations themselves like the ACLU and SPLC are themselves the tip of the spear as it were as politicized entities used to suppress, slime and smear anyone or anything that poses a threat to the Anti-American globalists/leftist counter revolution.

Yet again for the umpteenth time, Trump's own observation rings true at a volume that could shatter glass: "They're not after me, the truth is, they're after you! I'm just standing in their way."

And to underscore all of the above:

This May 16, 2016 quote from Nancy Pelosi has haunted me: “Donald Trump is not going to be President of the United States. Take it to the bank, I guarantee it.”

Not only about that election but fast forward four years. What did she know about the events of January 6th 2021 and when did she know it?! The same FBI/DoJ and CIA that engineered Russian collusion had a slew of agents provocateur in the crowds that came to peacefully protest the Democrat-rigged-and-stolen 2020 election, on and around Capitol Hill as Congress met to certify or not the Electoral College results. Pelosi, as Speaker of the House was in charge of the Capitol PD and days before denied President Trump's request to call out the National Guard to help beef up security. In the event, as we all know two unarmed women Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland lost their lives at the hands of a Capitol PD officer and other security forces that Pelosi commanded directly or indirectly.

What she knew in 2016 directly leads to what happened that horrible day in 2021, the blood libel and mythologies still percolating in the minds of the political class as well as the brainwashed pea-brains of leftists. And as Donald Trump continues to bamboozle and steamroll the leftists and advance his and OUR agenda forward, the Left reacts with both hack-in-black judicial decrees and molotov cocktails.

That is why Brennan et al must at the barest of bare minimums be totally exposed if, as I fear, they are to go unpunished, at least in this life.

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 Weekend!

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'We just want parents to be the driving factor in a child's education.'
EXCLUSIVE: Moms For Liberty Called A ‘Hate Group’ In Massachusetts Police Trainings

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Daily Tech News 1 August 2025

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

Epic Games just won its lawsuit against Google. Again. (The Verge)

Google plans to appeal - again - to either an en banc sitting of the 9th Circuit or the Supreme Court.

But Google no longer has a stay on the lower court's ruling, and Epic plans to put its own app store inside the Google Play store as soon as tomorrow.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM Comments

Look AT Me, I'm ONT

—WeirdDave

Welcome to the MLB trade deadline ONT. In case you missed it, earlier there were some pretty intense trade discussions between the Blue Jays and the Cardinals.

Posted by WeirdDave at 10:00 PM Comments

Pudu Cafe

—Ace

The pudu -- the world's smallest deer species

Reuniting with a blind and deaf dog after an absence.

Are seals better than otters? An unbiased investigation.

In case you missed it: Two dogs in a pool talking about diving in to get the tennis ball.

Cats: Boy if we could get at that squirrel we'd teach him what's what.
Squirrel: Well I'm in your house now, tough guys, whatcha gonna do?

Thanks to the Patriarch Tree.

A scared and traumatized dog was abandoned by his "family" when they moved out. A kindly neighbor spent two full weeks sitting with the dog to gain its trust and get it to leave the abandoned property and come live with her.

This bird is cute but I bet after five minutes you'd put it in the oven.

Too much of a good thing.

Dog plays self-catch.

Baby elephant tests the tensile strength of his trunk.

Go team.

Ready for adventure!

Woman takes some risks rescuing a dog from a bridge support.

I suspect this is AI but what are you gonna do. I got fooled by an embarrassingly amateurish Hulk Hogan hoax. Looks good, though!

Christmas in July.

Posted by Ace at 07:42 PM Comments

Candace Owens: A National Concern

—Ace

Candace Owens is being sued by Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, and, I can't believe this, I'm on the Macrons' side.

Owens is a devoted conspiracy theorist (and antisemitic crusader) and has repeatedly claimed, without, seriously, any evidence, that Macron's wife is really a man, baby.

There is controversy over the term "woke right." I don't use the term myself.

But one attribute of the woke left has been to simply defame anyone they don't like. (While simultaneously demanding repressive censorship for anyone they don't like.)

Candace Owens certainly seems to enjoy this aspect of online wokism.

I don't like Macron and while I know nothing about his wife, her association with Macron, and the, um, interesting circumstances of their May (or early April)-December romance, suggest to me I wouldn't like her if I knew much about her.

But you can't just claim that someone was born the opposite sex because the bad chemicals in your head told you are a Diva Genius and that you deserve some Internet Attention today.

It's defamatory. Clearly. And it's a statement of fact, not opinion, so it can in fact be legally defamatory.

First, she doubled down on her slander and claimed that she would fund-raise her defense and use her position to harass the Macrons through discovery.

Owens needs to talk to a lawyer because discovery will only be permitted on the question of Brigitte Macron's birth sex. "Discovery" is not a license to demand any and all documents that you might want to use to embarrass your opponent. You can only discover documents germane to the actual case.

WATCH: Candace Owens just DOUBLED DOWN on Brigitte Macron being a man in response to getting sued.

"You were born a man and you will die a man... That's the point I'm making."

"I think you're sick. I think you're disgusting. And I am fully prepared to take on this battle on… pic.twitter.com/LXiGjuearU
— George (@BehizyTweets) July 24, 2025

Again, this is a simple factual matter. The relevant documents here are her birth certificate, certifications of enrollment in primary school, her marriage license, etc.

She can also discover the birth certificates for the children that Brigitte Macron gave birth to.

Allegedly gave birth to, I should say.

On 22 June 1974, Brigitte married banker Andre-Louis Auziere (1951 - 2019), with whom she had three children (Sebastien, born 1975; Laurence, born 1977; and Tiphaine, born 1984).

Owens can discover these, but she can't just go on a fishing expedition for anything she thinks that Macron wouldn't want to admit. She seems to think she can back Macron down by making this threat to discover all sorts of embarrassing information, but it's an empty threat. No judge will sign an order to discover anything that's not directly relevant to the case.

She seems to have been informed -- or to at least suspect -- that Brigitte Macron has a birth certificate stating that she is a female.

So now she's claiming...

Seriously, she's now claiming...

that the real Brigitte Macron died in childhood and that the birth certificate for this female child was then given to her brother, and that brother became "Brigitte Macron."

See, it was this girl's dying wish that her birth certificate be willed to her transgender brother.

Where is she getting this from?

Apparently, just from her low-IQ brain.

Again, she has no evidence for any of these claims. She's just compounding her first defamation with additional defamations.

So now, according to Candace Owens, Brigitte Macron was born a woman, died, and with her dying wish passed on her identity to her brother.

There's no way anyone still believes this crap right?

Come on guys...

You all got taken for a ride by an insane grifter. pic.twitter.com/ASSwUqpOAn
— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) July 30, 2025

Meanwhile, she decided to interview Harvey Weinstein.

Her new crusade is that Harvey Weinstein was "set up" and framed. Even Weinstein resists this bizarre claim of Owens'.

But there's a reason she believes this. She doesn't say this straight-up, but she keeps suggesting that their are powerful people in Hollywood who wanted to "set up" Weinstein. Her suggestion is that they wanted to take possession of his back catalogue of movies.

She keeps demanding to know who now owns his back catalogue. She doesn't say this, but I think that given her very strong antisemtic sentiments, she's hinting around that Powerful Jews Conspired to frame Weinstein and steal his movies.

Weinstein, alas, disappoints her. He reports that two companies now own all of his old movies, and neither is an Israeli company.

One is owned by the Qatari government, and the other is owned by Saudis.

Candace: JUST SAY “JEWS” ALREADY—“THE JEWS WHO CONTROL HOLLYWOOD”—SAY IT.

Weinstein: Uh…

(Wait for the big surprise at the end)
pic.twitter.com/XZX9UKK8vz
— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) July 31, 2025

Oooh, so close, Candace! Keep trying!

We believe in you!

If you don't know: Candace Owens has a very concerning Origin Story.

She claims she had been maligned by racists when she was in high school. She sued various people. I don't know the disposition of the case.

She decided that she would create a website to let people get vengeance on their online bullies. This website would be called "Social Autopsy." It would allow anyone to post unverified defamations about anyone else, as long as it was claimed that this defamatory information was in service of fighting back against online bullies.

Two leftwing women told Candace Owens this was a terrible idea, and that she was just creating a platform that malicious trolls and defamers could use to victimize people -- the exact opposite of what Owens claimed she wanted to create the website for.

Owens, who apparently believes that any idea that pops into her low-IQ head is a great one, decided that these two left-wing women were just jealous schemers trying to trick her out of her great idea to create a high-profile defamation website.

Of course, the two leftwing women were 100% right. I would not be inclined to believe them based on their politics, either, but if I listened to what they were saying -- a website that allows people to post unverified derogatory claims about other people with no effort at verification whatsoever would in fact empower online defamers and bullies, not check them -- I would have decided that these two leftwing women were right about this one issue.

When Candace Owens explains how she became "conservative" -- or whatever brand of conspiratorial, paranoid "politics" she practices -- she always talks about these two leftwing women trying to hoodwink her, and how she became a "conservative" in reaction to their trickery and scheming.

And since the very day I heard about this fruitcake, I thought: Boy, of all the reasons to join the right (or pseudoright), that has got to be the very worst possible reason, and I don't think that shows she's actually "conservative" at all.

More like she's a narcissistic headcase who can't accept criticism so she became a "conservative" because two women on the left criticized her.

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 06:27 PM Comments

School-Choice Advocate Corey D'Angelis Exposes the NEA's Radical, Antisemitic Political Manifesto as the NEA Races to Erase It From the Internet; He Renews His Demand to De-Certify This Communist, Anti-Student "Union"

—Ace

I'm inclined to agree already but let's read some of his exposé.

Actually, he isn't interested in de-certifying the NEA so much as crippling its true role as a Democrat grifter organization. He wants the STUDENT Act passed.

The National Education Association (NEA) tried scrubbing its radical 2025 handbook from the internet after I leaked its contents on X, but I saved a copy of their 434-page manifesto. This document, meant to guide America's largest teachers' union, exposes a radical agenda: erasing Jews from the Holocaust, blaming "white supremacy culture" for systemic racism, pushing illegal racial quotas, calling for "educational reparations," and attacking homeschooling while ignoring their own failing schools.

The NEA, armed with a unique 1906 federal charter, has become a money-laundering operation for the Democratic Party, funneling over 99% of its 2022 political contributions to Democrats. Its president, Becky Pringle, an at-large Democratic National Committee member, engages in histrionics to rally this partisan machine.

The "Stopping Teachers Unions from Damaging Education Needs Today (STUDENT) Act," introduced last week by Senator Cynthia Lummis and Representative Scott Fitzgerald, would gut this cartel by banning lobbying, political activity, and racial quotas, mandating transparency, and stopping strikes that shutter schools. Congress must pass this bill to leverage the NEA's charter, force it back to education, or make it beg to lose its special privilege.

The NEA's handbook is a blueprint for extremism, not education. It downplays the Holocaust's targeting of Jews, framing it as a generic tragedy while emphasizing other groups, effectively erasing Jewish suffering from history. It declares that "educators must acknowledge the existence of white supremacy culture as a primary root cause of institutional racism, structural racism, and white privilege," vowing to push "strategies fostering the eradication of institutional racism and white privilege perpetuated by white supremacy culture." It demands school districts provide training in "cultural competence, implicit bias, restorative practices, and racial justice." Worse, it calls for illegal racial quotas, stating, "The National Education Association believes that at every phase of governance and on all decision-making levels of the Association there should be minority participation at least proportionate to the identified ethnic-minority population of that geographic level." These quotas prioritize identity over merit, dividing teachers and distracting from student needs. The handbook even attacks homeschooling, claiming "home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience"--ironic, given that only about a quarter of public school eighth graders are proficient in math despite $20,000 per student in annual spending.
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The NEA's federal charter, a privilege no other union enjoys, was meant to advance teaching and learning, not fuel a partisan agenda. With nearly $400 million in annual revenue from teacher dues, the NEA bankrolls Democratic campaigns while neglecting classrooms. Pringle's DNC ties and histrionic convention speeches ensure the NEA serves progressive politics, not educators. The union's 2025 convention in Portland, Oregon, doubled down this month. Ashlie Crosson, the 2025 NEA Teacher of the Year, declared teaching "deeply political." Resolutions read like a DNC war plan: one pledged thousands to smear President Trump as a "fascist," misspelling "fascism" as "facism." Another committed over $200,000 to evade a Supreme Court ruling allowing parents to opt out of gender ideology instruction. The NEA also vowed to fight Trump's immigration and education policies. In 2019, it rejected a resolution to "rededicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America."

...

The STUDENT Act is a kill shot. Unlike revoking the NEA's charter -- a symbolic jab that wouldn't stop its antics -- this bill dismantles its power. It bans lobbying and political activity, choking off its Democratic pipeline. It ends racial quotas, ensuring merit-based leadership. It mandates annual reports to Congress, exposing Pringle's $400 million war chest. It prohibits strikes, keeping schools open for nearly 50 million students. It scraps the NEA's D.C. property tax exemption and requires informed consent for dues, ending automatic deductions.

Read the whole thing.

More: Randi Weingarten is looking to join up with the equally-popular Klaus Schwab.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, dropped a bombshell last week at the union's annual convention in Washington, DC.
In a speech that could have been ripped from the pages of a dystopian novel, she announced a partnership with the globalist World Economic Forum to craft a new curriculum for America's schools.

If you thought Common Core's centralized, one-size-fits-all approach was a bad idea, Weingarten's latest move is the educational equivalent of saying, "Hold my beer."

The WEF, known for its unsettling vision of a future where "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy," is now being invited to shape the minds of America's children.

This is the same organization that cozies up to the Chinese Communist Party, promotes digital IDs and pushes foolish, industry-killing green energy schemes.

The AFT has been edging up to this alliance: When its members passed a resolution this spring calling for "climate-smart and sustainable schools," they explicitly cited the WEF as part of a push to "integrate the curriculum to facilitate comprehensive energy reduction."

Partnering with an entity that holds up authoritarian regimes as models is a five-alarm fire.

And considering the WEF's track record of championing policies that undermine industrial competitiveness, Weingarten's claim that the coming curriculum will lead to "good jobs and solid careers in US manufacturing" is laughable.

This move fits Weingarten's pattern: She has a craving for centralized power, and her union's history shows a knack for leveraging authority to bend institutions to its will.

As I always point out: Failing teachers always want to "reform the curriculum" because the only other alternative would be to fire the incompetent teachers, which the failure-factory-protecting teachers unions vow will never, ever happen.

If you can't fire the people actually to blame, you have to claim that some "reform" in the "system" is necessary. So every five to eight years we go through the same bullshit: Teachers fail, the public sees that they're failing, the teachers unions propose more changes to "the system" which results in even more failure but hey, it buys them another five to eight years until the cycle repeats.

We must destroy them.

This seems impossible but until six months ago it also seemed impossible to seal the border, deport the illegal alien criminals, rebalance world trade and defund PBS and NPR.

We can do this.

Meanwhile: The "experts" keep experting.

Posted by Ace at 05:17 PM Comments