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Because of the many things that LLMs are not, high among them is security models:
"The most practical mitigation today is not to rely solely on the model for safety. We advocate for a 'defense-in-depth' approach, using external systems like AI firewalls or guardrails to monitor and block problematic outputs before they reach the user. A more permanent, though much more difficult, solution would involve building safety into the model's foundational training from the ground up."
LLMs inherently have no concept of security; they at best pretend that they do.
If you want any kind of security, you have to implement it using something else. LLMs offer no security themselves and never will.
They had a sort of precursor to the Amiga's "Copper" hardware that automatically reconfigured things inside the hardware, and used it to create visual effects that were not directly possible for the limited hardware.
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - August 27, 2025 [DJ Jazzy Rex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONTwhich means another random assortment of interweb hoo ha and what not. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
A special thanks to scampydog to recognize the end of his service as Tuesday ONT contributor. Doggo posted last night that his ONT efforts would be limited to Saturday night Club ONT going forward. We salute you, Duke of Cool!
You're still stuck with the Dino this evening, so let's get on with it...
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Group projects mostly suck. Club ONT and the A-Team are clearly the exceptions to the rule, but almost every work-related group project is a steady stream of Dilbert cartoons. Success comes despite the group rather than because of it.
Group projects for any creative endeavor is harder. Different visions and perspectives, different skill sets and interests, different life experiences, etc. Nobody goes to see paintings in museum galleries that came from painter collaborations. Can you imagine trying to get Van Gogh or Dali or Picasso to compromise with other painters to produce a painting?
For some reason, however, musicians find their way to each other periodically. Most bands get together and break up soon thereafter. Successful bands still find ways to break. Some successful find ways to avoid killing each other, mostly because they know the gravy train ends if the band ends.
For tonight's ONT, let's get past bands and focus on collaborations. Looking for those few magic moments when two artists who have found success on their own take the risk to make music together. This isn't when a guest musician sits in or makes a surprise appearance during a live concert. This isn't a duet with singers taking the lead on different parts. A collaboration is when two or more musicians get into a studio and create something new that is good on its own merits. Could be a single song or a full album.
As usual, will need grey box help on this one. DJ Rex has a small brain and short arms which makes music a challenge.
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Was Cream the first supergroup? Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker - White Room (1968)
The Highwaymen - Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson - Highwaymen (1985)
The Traveling Wilburys - George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. End of the Line (1988)
Damn Yankees -Tommy Shaw of Styx, Jack Blades, Ted Nugent, and Michael Cartellone. Come again (1990)
Carryover from last week: A collaboration between dinosaurs and jets? A T-Rex flying an F-14 may be the best Calvin and Hobbes drawing that does not include either Calvin or Hobbes. That boy had quite an imagination.
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Very random historical nugget:
The Plymouth Iron Windmill Company was started in 1882 by watchmaker and inventor Clarence Hamilton in Plymouth, Michigan. It was established to make a type of windmill that Hamilton invented. The business struggled, partly because of the burden and cost of shipping heavy windmill by wagon. The board met in January 1888 [corrected from 1988] to consider closing and liquidating, but the motion failed by one vote.
Nearby, Hamilton also operated the Plymouth Air Rifle Company which made a spring powered airgun to shoot BB-size round shot. In March 1888, Hamilton approached the windmill company board with an all-metal airgun design and a request to use the factory blast furnaces to mold and stamp the gun's metal parts.
The general manager reportedly test fired the gun and exclaimed, "Boy, it's a daisy!" Can you see where this is going? The new gun was named the "Daisy BB Gun."
The board of the Windmill Company offered the gun to every farmer who purchased a windmill. Success!
By 1895, the Windmill Company stopped making windmills and began making Daisy BB gun parts exclusively. It changed its name to the Daisy Manufacturing Company. The rest is history. The company still sells BB guns today.
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August 27 is a mixed date in the world of music. Steve Ray Vaughan died 35 years ago at only 35 years old. Imagine the music that might have been...
On the other side of the ledger, Alex Lifeson was born in 1953. You might have heard of Rush?
Disclaimer: I do not know where this data comes from, so don't ask about location or time period or anything else. Caveat emptor.
Top 10:
Sept 17
April 8
Sept 23
Sept 24 (tie)
Oct 1 (tie)
Feb 12
April 29
March 4
April 16
March 5
Bottom 10:
Feb 29
Dec 25
Dec 26
Jan 1
Jan 26
April 25
Dec 27
Dec 28
Dec 24
Dec 13
Conclusions:
Early summer and Christmas are popular times for conception
Nothing happens in March
A tiny uptick in mid-November might be Valentines' Day?
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The Pittsburgh Police Scanner: The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!
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Ozzy and Lita Ford for the big ONT finish:
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The Earth's rotation on its axis, filmed over a 24-hour period. The camera "cancels out" the Earth's rotation by slowly rotating in the opposite direction. This is why the stars are motionless and the landscape revolves around the celestial pole. pic.twitter.com/IsuBKAefmd
Epstein Pal Bill Gates "Distances" Himself from Democrats, Drops Funding for Rancid Democrat Dark-Money Slush-Fund "Arabella Advisors"
—Ace
I've talked about Arabella before. They're the reason that the Democrats and media -- pardon my redundancy -- don't complain about big-money "dark money" donor groups any longer.
They receive billions from donors -- which I suspect include, like ActBlue's donors include as well, illegal foreign contributors -- and use this to fund dozens and dozens of Democrat pressure groups.
J Michael Waller
@JMichaelWaller
Arabella Advisers has given $10 million to organizations that "support radical Palestinian activist groups that have been linked to terrorism and agitated against US support for Israel in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas jihadists..."
Bad Kitty Unleashed
@pepesgrandma
Meet the Arabella funders. The Arabella network has been instrumental in almost all the electoral and policy victories the Left has achieved across the nation at the federal, state, and even local levels.
And Capital research had released information that shows the top donors to each of Arabella's 4 funds.
Photo 1. New Venture Fund
Photo 2. Sixteen Thirty Fund
Photo 3. Windward Fund
Photo 4. Hopewell Fund
The big three Arabella fund donors are Bill Gates, George Soros, and Mark Zuckerberg.
When Mark Zuckerberg says he's not censoring republicans realize that he funds the censorship regime thru Democracy Fund. The same route that he funneled election funds thru.
Zuckerbergs also includes the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donor-Advised Fund housed at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Plus there's much more, especially the total of $350 million to the Just Trust over five years.
Bad Kitty Unleashed
@pepesgrandma
Eric Kessler, a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton, was the Arabella founder and serves as senior managing director.
Arabella is who often gets the checks when you donate to Soros Democracy Alliance partners.
On this sample page, Arabella Sixteen Thirty and New Venture funds get the checks.
Bill Gates is supposed to be one of Arabella’s larger donors.
Bill Gates was a huge Biden admin helper. Especially with State Department programs.
Gabe Kaminsky
@gekaminsky
New: The Democratic consulting firm Arabella Advisors -- which oversees the largest liberal dark money network in the United States -- is the force behind a self-styled black Communist 'solidarity' magazine ["Hammer & Hope"] boosting Hamas talking points online, tax forms show.
Arabella's group New Venture Fund has sought to distance itself from fringe Palestinian terror-linked groups such as Alliance for Global Justice -- but it is the sole backer of Hammer & Hope. The outfit's leaders are alums or work for @Princeton and @nytimes: writers include Angela Davis.
All of Hammer & Hope's funding in fiscal 2023, $150,000, came from the New Venture Fund.
In the preceding fiscal 2022, Hammer & Hope raked in $1.5 million from the New Venture Fund through a registered nonprofit group for its publisher in New York called the Black Radical Project. Hammer & Hope's publisher was incubated at the New Venture Fund as a project, allowing it to be routed a $750,000 check from the Ford Foundation
"It's absolutely not a coincidence that you see this convergence between the hardcore Left and hardcore Islamists," said Reed Rubinstein of @America1stLegal
-- a former top Trump administration official in Treasury and DOJ
So Arabella is basically the only way Democrats can stay in the game.
Zuckerberg stopped funding them last year (IIRC), and now Gates.
That leaves George and Alex Soros as the big billionaires still funding them.
Gates Foundation Quietly Cuts Ties With Firm Linked to Democrats
Officials made no mention of politics in cutting ties with a network of nonprofit funds, but Bill Gates has made other moves to insulate the charity from political pressures.
America's largest charitable foundation has quietly ceased backing a nonprofit network closely associated with the Democratic Party and criticized by conservatives, a symbolically significant blow to a powerful player in liberal politics.
The Gates Foundation decided in late June to halt making grants to nonprofit funds administered by the consulting firm Arabella Advisors, according to an internal foundation announcement reviewed by The New York Times.
That decision, attributed to the foundation's chief executive, Mark Suzman, has sparked unease in the world of progressive philanthropy. Some nonprofits that work with Arabella are already seeking distance from the firm in order to preserve their relationships with the Gates Foundation, which primarily supports health initiatives around the globe.
In addition to its consulting work on behalf of nonprofits and philanthropists, Arabella also manages several "dark money" funds that support Democrats and the progressive movement.
For the organizations that the foundation's grants ultimately support, large sums are on the line. The Gates Foundation has disbursed or pledged about $450 million to nonprofit funds administered by Arabella over the last sixteen years, according to the foundation's records. It is one of the earliest, and largest, backers of nonprofit funds managed by Arabella.
In its internal announcement, dated June 24 and sent to some Gates employees who oversee grant programs, foundation officials did not mention politics. Instead, they cited a desire to engage more directly with grant recipients and cut back on the use of intermediaries like Arabella entities.
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Mr. Trump made scrapping foreign aid and dismantling the vast global health infrastructure intertwined with the Gates Foundation among his very first orders of business. More broadly, he and his Republican allies have embarked on a campaign to cripple the machinery of the left, including directing the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the leading Democratic fund-raising platform.
To be honest, I'm not sure this makes any difference, because the two main covid non-vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, both subsequently got full FDA authorization in 2021 and 2022.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had rescinded emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for COVID-19 vaccines, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday, saying the move was made to end vaccine mandates.
In a post on the social platform X, Kennedy wrote, "I promised 4 things: 1. to end the emergency. 2. to end covid vaccine mandates. 3. to keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially the vulnerable. 4. to demand placebo-controlled trials from companies."
"In a series of FDA actions today we accomplished all four goals. The emergency use authorizations for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded," he added.
"FDA has now issued marketing authorization for those at higher risk: Moderna (6+ months), Pfizer (5+), and Novavax (12+). These vaccines are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors."
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EUAs are granted to medical products by the FDA when no approved, alternative product is available. The COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna were both made available through EUAs prior to receiving full FDA approval in 2021 and 2022, respectively.
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Last month, the FDA granted full approval to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for at-risk children, making it the first vaccine available for children aged between 6 months and 11 years of age not through an EUA.
Doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been available to all children regardless of risk factors, but Kennedy announced earlier this year that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would no longer be recommending the shots for healthy children and pregnant women.
Check out Politico's headline:
Um, why would young healthy children need a fake vaccine?
I'd like RFKJr. to announce this: a full federal investigation into the physical and psychological side-effects of "trans therapy."
Amber Duke
@ambermarieduke
If you look at WaPo's school shooting database and remove accidental discharges, gang violence, police shootings, etc., there have been four mass school shootings since 2023. Two of the perpetrators were transgender. 50%.
Disinformation Expert Lizzy
@StarChamberMaid
Trump should announce a national commission to investigate trans gender violence and appoint the appropriate people to research and report.
No science has been done on this, because the lunatics behind this know what a study would show. The only "science" we have is reports from butchers doing the surgeries and big pharma companies making money on mental illness. They have, of course, absolutely spectacular conflicts of interest on the subject, but that's the way the deranged Regime likes it.
This is a great point, regarding the left's insistence that "thoughts and prayers" mean nothing, that we need "action."
Emily Jashinsky
@emilyjashinsky
Almost no one ever "just" says the reaction should be about thoughts and prayers -- even the conservative Christians with whom Frey disagrees on gun control believe in policy solutions of their own. (Arming teachers, tighter security, etc.) He just doesn't like those solutions, which is fine. But it's really time to retire this cheap hit on people of faith, especially in cases where they're actually the direct targets of an attack. Those little kids don't believe the prayers they were saying today shield them from earthly tragedy or excuse them from doing good works. Frey can make his point about guns just as well without this tired jab.
Almost no one ever "just" says the reaction should be about thoughts and prayers — even the conservative Christians with whom Frey disagrees on gun control believe in policy solutions of their own. (Arming teachers, tighter security, etc.) He just doesn't like those solutions,… https://t.co/wzO0wwU4IE
CNN and MSNBC will go out of their way to talk about anything except the inconvenient facts of this shooting.
It's the very definition of anti-information, anti-journalism. They aren't informing their audience of anything. It's all just distraction noise. https://t.co/YGNPePnfol
🚨 WTF? MSNBC, after viewing the videos of the Minneapolis transgender sho*ter with "K*LL DONALD TRUMP" and anti-Christian paraphernalia: "A number of journals, number of writings, not all of them in English...writing about a host of things, won't get into details."
Today’s killing of Christian children at a church in Minneapolis occurred in the context of a surge in far-left trans propaganda encouraging Trantifa and other leftists to take up arms to kill transphobes and “fascists.”
Just like Fauci employing multiple cut-out subgrantees to fund the creation of covid-19 in China.
In other words: They'd never be able to prove the case, and don't even get me started on Blue City Juries.
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that progressive megadonor George Soros and his son "should be charged with RICO" for supporting "violent protests" across the U.S.
"George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America," Trump posted on Truth Social.
"We're not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to 'BREATHE,' and be FREE," he added. "Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we're watching you! Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Soros has donated, often through nonprofits, to various progressive causes. He has also supported the campaigns of progressive district attorneys across the country.
A spokesperson from Soros' Open Society Foundations told Just the News in a statement on Wednesday: "These accusations are outrageous and false. The Open Society Foundations do not support or fund violent protests. Our mission is to advance human rights, justice, and democratic principles at home and around the world. We stand for fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, including the rights to free speech and peaceful protest that are hallmarks of any vibrant democracy."
Strangely, DC prosecutors did not charge these paraders and official-business-disruptors with any crimes.
Through Soros's philanthropic work, JVP was awarded several grants totaling $650,000 that bankrolled its "human rights" campaign and "social welfare activities" in the Middle East, according to a grant database maintained by the Soros-funded Open Society Foundations, the central hub of the financier's anti-capitalist, redistributionist network. The Soros-branded Open Society Policy Center Inc. -- once the second-largest spender on federal lobbying after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- donated $150,000 and $200,000 in 2021 and 2019, respectively, to the Jewish Voice for Peace Action Incorporated, JVP's tax-exempt 501(c)(3). And, in 2017, Soros's primary grant-giving vehicle, the Foundation to Promote Open Society, gifted JVP $300,000.
As Spencer points out, like its Orwellian title, JVP does not act in good faith. The Jewish-in-name-only JVP is not Jewish, nor is it peace-seeking; JVP is as opportunistically "Jew-ish" as George Santos and as peaceful as the fiery Black Lives Matter protests.
"Deploying its 'Jewish' identity in attacking Israel is JVP's métier, one might say its purpose. The cutting edge of this work [...] is to deflect accusations of anti-Semitism..." Commentary contributor Joshua Muravchik explains in a deep-dive on JVP's duplicitous nature. "Were it not for the strategic advantage of speaking 'as Jews,' it is likely that some of the self-described 'progressive and leftist' activists who constitute JVP's membership would have little interest in belonging to a Jewish organization." Indeed, some JVP's members are not Jews. Rather, it's a collection of radical-left ideologues "who realize that their lineage affords special leverage in attacking Israel," Muravchik puts it. "Nowhere does JVP evince any genuine interest in Judaism or in the well-being of the Jewish people or any reverence for the accouterments of Jewish life -- holidays, prayers, ceremonial garments, Hebrew words -- that it appropriates as props or adornments in its impassioned campaign for Palestinian vanquishment of Israel."
On its old FAQ page, prior to revisions, JVP acknowledged, "No you don't" "have to be Jewish to join." Simply, JVP is "inspired by Jewish values and traditions."
But I imagine he's got a Fauci-like series of dummy groups between him and antifa.
Related: the other day I faulted Trump for signing an EO ordering federal agents and prosecutors to arrest and charge people for burning the flag.
That's not what he did.
The left has created a Fake Law that says that if a leftist commits a crime while also committing an arguable act of free expression, the arguable act of free expression automatically immunizes them from prosecution for their crimes.
Thus every blue city judge sets antifa rioters and terrorists free after three hours in the county clink, sentencing them to "time served." The left feels that if you're pushing a political position -- only a left-wing position, you understand -- you gain immunity for all criminal action taken while pushing that position.
That is not the law and never has been, though it is currently the de facto law.
Don't worry: No one on the right ever has the benefit of this law. Grandmothers are sent to prison for years for merely praying outside of an abortion clinic, and J6 defendants are prosecuted for assault for throwing a bag of potato chips at a cop.
(Note that no judge or jury thought that the J6er was "overcharged" for that.)
Trump's EO instructed federal agents and prosecutors to stop treating this Fake Law as if it's the actual law. If someone commits a crime, like incitement to riot, that crime should be prosecuted, even if the incitement took the form of burning a flag. The speech element of the crime does not immunize the criminal from prosecution from the crime element of the crime.
Similarly, it's generally illegal to burn anything in public -- burning a flag shouldn't be an exception to the law.
Some asshole burned the flag in a federal park and got arrested. Good.
1) That's not what the EO did - the EO specifically instructed the DoJ to enforce burning the US flag to incite lawlessness or violence - in consistency with the 1969 SCOTUS ruling in Brandenberg v Ohio 2) It's against the law to set ANYTHING on fire in a National…
Media Now Realizes They Have Another Trans Terrorist On Their Hands, So They Go Into Berserker-Mode Pushing a Counter-Narrative: We Must Ban All Guns
—Ace
First of all: The media now knows that the killer is yet another trans terrorist, but they're pretending he might have been... MAGA.
The Patriarch Tree
@PatriarchTree
Right now, my office TV is on @ABCNewsLive and it's ALL ABOUT GUN CONTROL, including a lot of "blame Trump" rhetoric. Meanwhile, some accounts here are offering evidence that the, uh, identity of the shooter ain't exactly MAGA. Patience, my friends. We shall see.
he Patriarch Tree
@PatriarchTree
Nearly an hour later, credible journalists (including @karol
) have ID'd the Minneapolis shooter as Robert Paul "Robin" Westman, whose motives are known. @ABCNewsLive continues to play dumb.
Trump encouraged this follower to gun down a bunch of little kids?
Maybe his general psychopathy, aided by powerful cross-sex experimental hormones, are responsible, no?
No one can tell me that the obviously insane and mentally diseased person below wasn't recognized as a clear threat.
He wasn't reported because we must, at all costs, Protect "Trans" Kids.
And that includes protecting them with weapons, as Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor advised.
Knowing that they have a shitstorm coming, the media is going full-tilt to push a counter-narrative: the real problem is guns!
Oh: And your stupid fake religion can't save you, Stupid Christians.
Jen Psaki
@jrpsaki
Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.
Fair enough, Jen, I'm convinced: Let's ban cross-sex hormone treatments, which we know are producing violent psychosis. After all, Jennie, "if it saves just one life...," right?
Another response to Miss Circle Back:
ataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
Hello Ms. Psaki,
You're right: thoughts and prayers are not enough. But here's the problem: the Democratic Party has its own extremism crisis. Polling shows that more than half of Democrats now believe violence against President Trump is "justified." This shooter didn't come from nowhere; he was radicalized in a culture your party has tolerated, if not encouraged.
So let’s talk about real policy steps that would actually reduce political violence:
* Crack down on extremist networks. Declare the Muslim Brotherhood and other political fronts operating as destabilizers in U.S. politics.
* Condemn political violence without caveats. Issue a full-throated, unconditional denunciation of violence against President Trump and his supporters -- no "context," no "but."
* Own up to your role. Apologize for mainstreaming coded radical slogans like "No Kings," which blur the line between protest and incitement.
* Stop foreign-backed radicalization. Pass Sen. Cruz's Stop FUNDERs Act to allow RICO charges against the money networks funding color-revolution style agitation on U.S. soil.
* End federal funding for child gender transitions. Stop medicalizing confused minors with taxpayer dollars.
If you want to move beyond "thoughts and prayers," start here. Because until Democrats take their own extremism seriously, your calls for action will look like little more than partisan opportunism.
The media and leftwing Democrats -- but, as ever, I repeat myself -- are all-in on the "thoughts and prayers" do nothing meme.
Meanwhile, they worship Gaia.
CNN's Dana Bash just said this on live TV:
"Forget about thoughts and prayers. These kids were literally praying when they were murdered through a church window.”
We will outlaw transgender "therapy" and instruct psychiatrists to tell "transgenders" that they're simply deluded and must learn to live with their actual sex instead of mounting a futile and deluded war on reality.
Happy?
Reminder: CNN propagandists and RussiaGate faggots continue lying about semi-automatic rifles shooting multiple rounds with one trigger pull.
"Facts first" CNN LIES to their viewers about how semi-automatic rifles function, they falsely claim 1 trigger pull = "dozens of bullets" being fired:
PAMELA BROWN: It seemed like a rifle, he said. A semiautomatic rifle and it went on for several minutes.
WOW! @NBCNews Twin Cities affiliate @kare11 confirms shooter as Robin Westman and reports: "Law enforcement sources said ... [Westman's] mother was an employee at Annunciation School."
Evidence is emerging of the suspected shooter in Minneapolis and appears to be psychotic, manic 22-year-old young man, possibly trans, who left an 11-minute manifesto video on YouTube just hours before the shooting happened. The video has been taken down. The suspect wrote notes on the weapons he used including "Kill Trump Now!," "McVeigh," "Where is Your God?," "Burn Israel" and "6 million was not enough." He had a human-shaped target with Jesus's face attached to it.
Hatred destroys the soul.
No one wanted to call the cops on this obviously diseased ticking time bomb, huh?
Suspect whose identity is known posted a video at the time of the shooting allegedly recorded a day prior preparing his weapons. Writing on magazines said “for the Children” and “kill Donald Trump” pic.twitter.com/5TXcejwOja
I’ve seen a lot in my 3 decades of public safety and working for one of the largest police departments in the world, after watching this alleged suspects videos I can clearly state this was one deranged psychotic individual.
The written manifesto is 4 pages extensively apologizing to his family and saying it’s ok to change their name after this. Blames Vaping for giving him cancer, and continues with a dialogue of depression, sadness stating this is what he always wanted.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to persuade a grand jury to approve a felony indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The grand jury's rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent. It also amounted to a sharp rebuke by a panel of ordinary citizens against the prosecutors assigned to bring charges against people arrested after President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to fight crime and patrol the city's streets.
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It remained unclear if prosecutors planned to try again to obtain an indictment against Mr. Dunn, 37, a former Justice Department paralegal. They could also forgo seeking felony charges and refile his case as a misdemeanor, which does not require an indictment to move forward.
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Before he threw the sandwich, the complaint asserts, Mr. Dunn stood within inches of the officer, calling him and his colleagues "fascists" and shouting, "I don't want you in my city!"
Conservatives cannot endure being convicted by rabid leftists over nothing while guilty-as-sin leftists are set free.
I have no idea why people don't take this issue seriously.
I have a guess: Boomer National Review-style fake conservatives always interpose a dreamy ideal of what America should be like to distract from what America actually is. They want it to be the case that jurors in all jurisdictions deliver fair verdicts untainted by bias, and therefore they insist that that is the case, and we'll just have to "work harder" if we want justice.
I'm sick to death of these people. They're not idealistic, they're simply cravenly denying reality.
Moral maturity means accepting the world as it is, not in insisting the world is different than it is and basing policy on that child-like dream of a false world. The National Review types think they're being virtuous by insisting, along with Candide, that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
That's not virtue, that's being obtuse.
They claim this makes them "happy warriors." It doesn't. It makes them saps and saboteurs in league with the left.
The left is waging war on us and the National Review types just tip their fedoras and say, "Huh-hoh! Good sport, jolly good sport indeed!"
Seriously curious how many no bills came down during J6 investigation. My guess is zero.
And now everyone knows how DOJ had a perfect conviction rate before DC juries. One of the greatest injustices and abuse of prosecutorial power in U.S. history https://t.co/VYllRRSUQ9
"The level of gun violence across the city within the last day is deeply unsettling," the Minneapolis Police Department said in a news release. "Across three separate multiple-victim shootings, eight people have been injured by gunfire and three have lost their lives."
The attack at Annunciation Church would be the fourth deadly shooting in Minneapolis in less than 24 hours. In the most recent shooting, one man was killed and another injured at 2:08 a.m. in downtown Minneapolis.
Gunther Eagleman
@GuntherEagleman
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN MINNESOTA? Tim Walz and the rest of the Democratic leadership in the state have FAILED their constituents.
"This appears to be the latest in a string of violent incidents in this city since Tuesday afternoon."
"Yesterday another shooting killed one person and injured six others and now less than 24 hours later we have this unfolding where parents are potentially waiting to hear some of the worst news of their lives."
The feds need to sieze control ASAP! The American people deserve to have safety and security!
🚨 JUST IN: Police have swarmed the area around a Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Reportedly several critical victims and de*ths. Home to a K-8 Catholic school. Roads/ramps closing down.
Gay Tom Arnold says he doesn't want the National Guard in his shithole colony of Somalia
Two days ago, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz attacked President Trump for deploying National Guard to cities to restore safety and crackdown on crime: pic.twitter.com/tN2f4VfOlB
Whether or not it has staying power - or results in lasting reform - remains to be seen, but it has become undeniable that the Left has been taking a drubbing recently. Society has not exactly turned on its gimbals and lurched the other direction, but it is more aggressively pushing back on the leftist takeover of everything. Examples abound. American Eagle. Bud Light. Cracker Barrel. The SEC sorority dances. The contempt and refusal to bend the knee and call the Estronauts heroine space pilots. The tentative first steps in the crackdown on DEI.
And with these baby steps away from rigidly-enforced leftist conformity, the Democrats are finally concerned that their position at the center of Left Pole is not conducive to continued success. Sort of. Perhaps more precisely, they are concerned that the perception of the Party as being at the center of radical leftism is harmful. As always, it isn't what they do, say or believe. The problem is, of course, merely how they describe it. It's the wording. It's a "messaging problem."
A story has made the rounds for a few days now about a leftist organization encouraging the Dems to change their public language. Not their beliefs, not their policies, but their language in order to reverse recent declines. The memo is interesting for just how much it says but doesn't mean to. The memo itself is straightforward. Summarized, it's "we're losing and we need to quit alienating people with stupid language." What's more interesting to me, however, is how some of it is framed.
... many Democrats are aware that the words and phrases we use can be profoundly alienating. But they use it because plain, authentic language that voters understand often rebounds badly among many activists and advocacy organizations. These activists and advocates may take on noble causes, but in doing so they often demand compliance with their preferred messages ...
That's interesting. That is a tacit - and likely inadvertent - admission that the Party is the plaything of major academic and NGO machinery. This leftist think tank just put paid to the entire notion of "grass roots" left-wing activities. The Party is controlled by and beholden to those interests. In black and white.
Over the years we've conducted, read, and analyzed hours upon hours of focus groups, and we've yet to hear a voter volunteer any of the phrases below except as a form of derision or parody of Democrats.
So for years Democrat insiders and machinators have known that nobody likes it and nobody listens except for those inside the power complex, yet only now that they've been smashed in the mouth are they concerned? "Yeah, we've known for years that everyone hates this crap, but we didn't really see any reason we should care about what the rubes think" is probably not what they were hoping to convey to outsiders who might read that memo.
The latter part of the memo is structured as a segmented list of words and phrases the think tank compiled that are particularly bad and should be avoided. The headings to introduce each section are much more enlightening that the list itself.
Therapy-Speak
These words say "I'm more empathetic than you, and you are callous to hurting other's feelings."
Seminar Room Language
This language says "I'm smarter and more concerned about important issues than you. Your kitchen table concerns are small."
Organizer Jargon
These words say "we are beholden to groups, not individuals. People have no agency."
Gender/Orientation Correctness
These say "your views on traditional genders and gender roles are at best quaint."
The Shifting Language of Racial Constructs
These words signal that talking about race is even more of a minefield. You will be called out as racist if you do not use the latest and correct terminology.
Explaining Away Crime
This says: "The criminal is the victim. The victim is an afterthought."
All of these say the same thing: "we are arrogant, unapproachable, holier-than-thou elitists who can no longer communicate with outsiders because of our highly-refined internal language that we use to signal each other while engendering the distrust and contempt of outsiders."
True enough. The modern Left uses academic language so skillfully that it has become its own dialect and outsiders neither understand it nor care to. But outsiders can - and do - get the gist of it. That is the problem. Hearing leftist duckspeak tells normals two distinct things. The first is what this memo is all about. People hear this spew and think, "what an asshole." The second thing is very loudly not addressed in this memo. That second thing is, "I get it well enough to know I want nothing to do with it because it sucks and is miserable and dangerous."
Yes, the message and the messaging do suck. Tons of people do feel revulsion and contempt when encountering it. Many do feel like a bunch of elitists are talking down to them when they hear it. That is all true. The broader problem, though, is that this is all downstream from the beliefs underpinning it. Calling it by different words doesn't change what it is, and that is the root problem. Improving the messaging will not improve the message. The message is still what it is, and it is abhorrent. Aping rubespeak won't change that other than compounding the problem by accidentally introducing clarity.
They don't get it and can't. They're so deep in the machinery that they are actually unable to figure that out. The core problem isn't their elitism or incomprehensible language, the core problem is that they're fully-committed ideological warriors and people are increasingly sick of their ideology. They don't see their ideas as possibly being the root issue.
We will never abandon our values or stop doing things to protect those who need help, encouragement, trust, a second chance, acceptance, a fair shake, and the opportunity to pursue life, liberty and happiness.
Yes, they will never abandon their awful values. We all know it. And that - not their messaging - is their real problem.
Good morning kids. Sadly, picking up from where I left off yesterday, President Trump is defending his decision to grant 600,000 student visas to Red Chinese students. RUFKM Mr. President?!
“We’re getting along very well with China. And I’m getting along very well with President Xi. I think it’s very insulting to say students can’t come here because they’ll go out, they’ll start building schools and they’ll be able to survive it. But, I like that their students come here, I like that other countries’ students come here. And you know what would happen? If they didn’t, our college system would go to hell very quickly,” Trump said.
Mr. President, considering the state of American culture and politics over the past 60 years, the names Bill Ayers, Ted Kaczynski, Luigi Mangione, Rashid Khalidi, John Brennan, and on and on and on, it is evident that our college system is not going to hell. Our college system, and much of Pre-K to 12 is in fact HELL ITSELF by virtue of what its graduates have wrought. What we are suffering this very day, from open borders, to transexual madness, to Wokeness, DEI, racial grievance and anti-Americanism and anti-free market capitalism to censorship, crime and dissolution in our cities that resulted in your calling up of the National Guard, is a result of the nightmare vision that was nurtured in our universities to begin with. And from the admirers of Mao Tse-Tung, one of history's greatest mass murderers, who Xi is an ardent admirer and acolyte...
The same people who defend burning the American flag as a sacred expression of free speech. Ironic given President Trump's move to criminalize flag burning . . .
Republican New Hampshire House candidate Lily Tang Williams on Tuesday warned that allowing more Chinese students to migrate to the U.S. would not be a smart move for the country. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would enable 600,000 students from China to study in the U.S. Williams said on “Fox & Friends First” that Chinese citizens are legally compelled to assist the Chinese government or else face repercussions and therefore must “be very carefully vetted.” “Well, people have to understand there are different kinds of Chinese students: people like me who come here in the 1980s and 1990s, really want to come here, live under freedom and the land of free, for opportunity to have better lives,” Williams said. “Then later, after China joined the WTO [World Trade Organization] they’re still going to come here. They are the wealthy, powerful children and they come here with a certain test to perform.” “Now, with [Chinese President] Xi Jinping’s Chinese national security and intelligence laws, they have to actually assist, to perform tasks for the Chinese government asks them to perform. Otherwise there will be serious consequences,” she continued. “Anybody who carries Chinese passport potentially needs to be very carefully vetted. And so I think this is not a good idea right now. And plus, we have so many come in during the [former President Joe] Biden years through the southern border. And where are they? Are they all out of our country yet? And are they vetted?”
Vetting even one let alone all 600,000 is impossible, given the limited resources and the fact that Red China is about as repressive, closed and impenetrable as a police state can get.
Viral fame is proving plenty damaging for Shiloh Hendrix, the Minnesota mom catapulted to notoriety in April for her use of racial slurs. The Rochester City Attorney’s Office is now moving to bring three counts of Disorderly Conduct against Hendrix, according to KTTC News. Hendrix may face up to 90 days in jail, and/or a $1,000 fine, reports the outlet. . .
The legal complaint submitted to a district court judge reads, according to KTTC, “[Hendrix] wrongfully and unlawfully engaged in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct, or in offensive obscene, or abusive language that would reasonably tend to arouse alarm, anger, or resentment in others.” (RELATED: US Will ‘Soon’ Have ‘Illegal Hate Speech’ Laws, World Economic Forum Panelist Tells Brian Stelter)
Is speech that arouses anger now verboten? Or speech that inspires resentment?
If so, I suppose we’d all better pray whatever guy we like wins the next election. He — and his appointees — will be the ones deciding which words are too inflammatory to fall on the public’s ears.
The Associated Press headlined their piece: “Trump moves to ban flag burning despite Supreme Court ruling that Constitution allows it.” The article included “experts” about free speech and emphasized the Supreme Court’s 1989 ruling.
But when Pride flags are burned, none of these outlets show the same concern for the First Amendment. When “two rainbow pride flags were set on fire outside of a gay bar” in New York, it was part of a spike in “hate crimes,” as written by The Times’ Sharon Otterman. No mention of free speech, no reminder of Texas v. Johnson or the First Amendment.
In 2019, CNN reported on an Iowa man sentenced to years in prison for burning an LGBT flag that was hanging from a church. The act was treated as a hate crime. Similarly, no mention of free speech or the first amendment.
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
In a viral video with nearly 40 million views on X reportedly connected to the arrest, two girls can be seen shouting back and forth with at least two alleged migrant men who allegedly attempted to assault one of the girls, with the two pleading for the men to leave them alone while one brandished an axe and a large knife. Police arrived on the scene after the incident to make the arrest, but did not charge any of the men in the video, the police told the DCNF. Scotland Police Charge Teen Girl Seen In Viral Alleged Attempted Migrant Assault (A few more like her and we can save civilization - jjs)
President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would enable 600,000 students from China to study in the U.S. Williams said on “Fox & Friends First” that Chinese citizens are legally compelled to assist the Chinese government or else face repercussions and therefore must “be very carefully vetted.” (She must have read yesterday's Morning Report! - jjs)
Chinese-Born Republican Candidate Warns Letting In Students From China ‘Not A Good Idea’
“We’re getting along very well with China. And I’m getting along very well with President Xi. I think it’s very insulting to say students can’t come here because they’ll go out, they’ll start building schools and they’ll be able to survive it. But, I like that their students come here, I like that other countries’ students come here. And you know what would happen? If they didn’t, our college system would go to hell very quickly,” Trump said. (Mr. President, You're fucking delusional. With love, J.J. Sefton)
Trump Explains Admin’s Change On Allowing Chinese Students
At The Democrat National Committee (DNC) summer meeting, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said “immigrants … are America.” (No, We the citizens who cherish We The People are America, you degenerate bloated shit-whore - jjs) The Left’s Favorite Immigration Lie Is Being Used To Destroy America
So much for moderation ahead of the midterms. “[Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] is beyond reform and should be abolished,” Democrat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan "BRO-FO" Omar posted Monday to X. The Squad Brings Back One Of Democrats’ Worst Lines Ever
“And we’re carrying out historic deportations to remove many more illegals committing Social Security fraud – the Social Security fraud that was taking place at levels nobody’s ever seen [before],” Trump said. More than a Quarter Million Illegal Aliens Removed from Social Security System (Now to remove their names from the voter rolls - jjs)
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The ruling will likely encourage further emergency appeals by the Trump White House—most importantly in a handful of lower court cases where judges appear to have ignored a Supreme Court ruling significantly narrowing the use of nationwide injunctions. Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s $783 Million Cut to DEI Research.
President Trump’s nomination of economist E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics has triggered those infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome. That’s too bad, because Antoni has some exceptional ideas to modernize economic data collection and reporting. The Smear Campaign Against Trump’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Nominee E.J. Antoni
Israel revealed Tuesday that there were several terrorists among the dead in Monday’s strike on a hospital in Gaza — though Israeli officials were not attempting to excuse the strike, which they said was done improperly. Several Terrorists Among the Dead in Gaza Hospital Strike (If Gazans did not overwhelmingly coddle, encourage and support the Hamas/Islamic cause, maybe this might not have happened, but they have only themselves and Islam to blame - jjs)
If Israel actually roots out the terrorists, they’ll have to face an angry, pro-Hamas progressive West. (It's not the West, it's the soon to be 100% Islamized West, and yet 6,000 years later the Jews are still here - jjs) Will Israel survive a total victory?
“We are monitoring increasing censorship in Europe with great concern but have no further information to provide at this time.” – U.S. State Department spokesman. Potential visa restrictions on EU officials, heightened tensions between the U.S. and EU, and scrutiny of freedom of expression policies. European Officials Censoring Americans Face Trump Travel Ban.
Scarborough began by seeming to think that red states cannot have crime-ridden blue cities, “There are a lot of cities, and we talked about this yesterday, that need help. A lot of red state cities. If you look at most crime charts, seven, eight of the top ten deadliest cities in America, big cities are usually in red states. If you look at, you know, Gavin Newsom and the Speaker, sort of, had a back and forth this weekend, Speaker Johnson's home state of Louisiana, 400 times more likely. You're 400 times more likely to be killed in Louisiana than you are in California. Certainly nothing you ever hear in the right-wing, sort of, blogosphere.” DOH! Inbred credibly accused murderer Scarborough Claims Louisiana Has a Murder Rate 400 Times California's
The order instructs agencies to “prioritize the enforcement to the fullest extent possible of our Nation’s criminal and civil laws against acts of American Flag desecration that violate applicable, content-neutral laws, while causing harm unrelated to expression, consistent with the First Amendment.” For Media Hypocrites, Burning The US Flag Is Speech But Touching The Rainbow One Is ‘Hate’
Unfortunately, platforms can use their respective monopoly power to remove you based on your skin color, sexual orientation, or political views. Why? Because there exists no true competition to their services. As Justice Clarence Thomas lamented in Biden v. Knight First Amendment Institute, we can’t get our news anywhere else as Big Tech’s “network effects entrench these companies” to be our only providers to our news and information. Worse, we give them legal immunity via Section 230 of the Communications Act when doing so.This concentration needs to be broken up. THAYER: Yes, Google Is a Common Carrier.
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The alleged attacker, 34-year-old Decarlos Brown, was arrested shortly afterward and is now facing a charge of first-degree murder. Police reports indicate that Brown is homeless and has a criminal history that dates back to 2011. Ukrainian Woman Escapes War, Gets Murdered in U.S.
In most blue states, self-defense is, at the least, frowned upon. (except Muslims and non-whites, which for them self-defense = attack whites and Jews - jjs) Does self-defense exist in blue states?
American institutions of higher education are facing a much-needed reckoning. College Crackdown
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Ballots can be intercepted and fraudulently cast, lost in transit, or even altered without the voter’s knowledge. In addition, signature verification — a key safeguard — is far from foolproof. Mail-In Voting Is A Recipe For Election Disasters
Kurt Schlichter: It’s going to end badly for everyone, but even worse for them. What is the Democrats’ Endgame? (absolute power - jjs)
The Vera Institute of Justice has long been tied to left-wing immigration and criminal justice initiatives and has received significant financial backing connected to billionaire George Soros. The group’s programs have also included participants who were recipients of fellowships from Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Since 2016, Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society has awarded over $11 million in grants to the Vera Institute. Nazi war criminal Soros-Linked Lobbyist at DNC Summer Meeting: Migrant Crime, Carjackings ‘Don’t Matter to That Many Americans’
With less than three months until Election Day, Virginia’s off-year gubernatorial race is becoming increasingly competitive, as Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears closes the gap with her opponent, former Democratic Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger. Virginia Democrat’s Lead Erodes Amid Familiar Mistake On Gender Ideology
The biggest Hollywood Democrat news to drop this summer was about how the party’s deep-pocketed powerbrokers are organizing a Bel Air fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Media moguls, mainstays on the Democrat donor scene in Hollywood, opening their home and their wallets (tickets range from $3,500 to $10,000) to a Republican senator gearing up for what could be a brutal reelection? This is unheard of in the Pelosi-Schumer Era. And yet, here we are. Hollywood Democrats Are M.I.A. as Their Party Goes Down in Flames
Chinese advances pose a serious threat to global cryptographic security. The United States must stay ahead of these developments to safeguard our information. America must secure its cybersecurity from China before it's too late (Let's start by not letting in 600,000 Chi-Com "student" spies/saboteurs - jjs)
First the Superheavy booster worked as intended, completing a new return configuration to reduce stress, completing a soft vertical splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. During the landing the company tested using backup engines instead of the normal engines to see if this would work in future situations where an engine failed. This worked. The most powerful rocket ever, built and financed by a private company, has a near perfect tenth test flight
To date, 156 spectroscopically confirmed quasars have been identified as part of the AllBRICQS project, and now a team of astronomers, led by Seoul National University's Yunyi Choi, has announced new quasar discoveries. Astronomers discover dozens of new luminous quasars
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“Accountability is coming,” Acting Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison said in a statement. “Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas. The Trump Administration will ensure that PREP reflects the intent of Congress, not the priorities of the left.” Trump Admin Threatens to Defund Sex Ed Programs in 46 States, Territories over Inclusion of Gender Ideology
The ending credits to the incomparable Buckaroo Banzai, of course. The entire gang shows up, even the one who died during the movie, because otherwise it wouldn't be awesome.
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - August 26, 2025 [scampydog]
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Would you look at that. It's Tuesday ONT time. Big science section this evening and some other random items. Pour yourself a tall water or adult beverage.
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A quote from Feynman to kick off the science portion of the evening. “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.” - Richard P. Feynman
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Unleash the Kraken? Nope, but we are unleashing regular ONT commenter and AoSHQ contributor, publius. Whether this evening or later, highly recommended reading. Take it away, publius.
The Rotation of the Erf and its relation to the Significance of the Passage of Time:
You may have seen some stories that the earth’s rotation has been speeding up of late. Lots of click-bait articles have appeared (looking at you, Daily Mail) that sensationalize this. Of course, they don’t really know what they’re talking about. I got interested in this. Let’s unravel what’s going on. First, we need a brief history of time and its measurement. This is quite an interesting historical excursion.
From time immemorial, the notion of time has been intricately and almost inseparably linked to the motions of the earth and other celestial bodies. These cycles have been imprinted on just about every form of life on earth, plant, animal, and other. The main cycle is the diurnal one, the day/night cycle. The lunar cycle is also imprinted, through tidal action and the effect on certain marine life. And there's the cycle of seasons, the year, or more precisely the tropical year.
Life on Erf goes way back in time. The human species in modern form goes back maybe 180,000 years. However, modern human history goes back only five or six thousand years, a twinkling of the eye relative to astronomical and geological time scales. But from what we know of that history, our ancient ancestors were obsessed with observing and tracking the motions of the celestial bodies. Much superstition (think astrology as we know it today) abounded, but the basic reasons were practical, as they served as calendars and clocks, foretelling the seasonal changes, the time to sow, the time to reap, etc, etc. The ancient Egyptians, way back around 3000 BC and before were big on the heliacal rising of Sirius, and the ancient Greeks, c. 500 BC, were likewise big on the heliacal rising of the Pleiades. For the Egyptians this event heralded the annual flooding of the Nile. For the Greeks, the Pleiades rising signaled it was safe to sail the Aegean. In modern times, with our modern technology and all the time-keeping and navigational systems we have, the connection with the sky is lost. But to the ancients, observing the sky was a matter of life and death.
The main astronomical cycle is the day. 24 hours. To a first approximation, we think of that as the earth completing one revolution around its axis. This is not quite the case. One solar day is a little more than one revolution of the earth. Why? Because the earth moves around its orbit a bit in the meantime as the earth rotates. The earth must turn a little more than one revolution to line back up with the sun relative to a point on the surface. This is thus a "synodic period", known as a solar day. The actual rotational period, relative to (almost) inertial space, is known as the sidereal day. This difference resulted in the Gemini 5 mission splashing down 80 miles short of its intended location – someone not thinking naively programmed the earth’s rotation rate as 360 degrees per 24 hours, and not the correct sidereal value of ~361 degrees. The ancients knew this difference, although they had no understanding of a rotating earth or the heliocentric solar system. They thought the
sky rotated around the earth, and the “wanderers”, the planets, and the sun and moon moved in more complex ways against the background of the stars. Now, some heretics and crazy conspiracy theorists as far back as the 4th Century BC suggested the earth rotating could explain the motion of the stars, but this was rejected as crazy talk, mis- and disinformation and all that.
Thus, the synodic day, the diurnal cycle, is what has governed our notion of time of day. How did this business of dividing a day into 24 hours come about? It goes back as far as we know to the ancient Egyptians who first divided the day into 24 pieces, 12 for the day, and 12 for the night. That passed on through to the ancient Greeks and then the Romans. It was the Romans who first engrained this into mechanisms of civil society, religious, legal, and literary. The word "hour" and "horology" derive from the Latin "hora", which comes from a similar Greek word that meant roughly "period of time" or "season". The Woke lunatics who complain about rigid time schedules and demands of punctuality being "whiteness" can blame the Romans, I guess, if not the Greeks or Egyptians. They really need to blame Nature herself, as life on earth demands attention to the significance of the passage of time.
Now, where did minutes and seconds of time come from? That goes back to Ptolemy, in the 2nd Century AD, who formalized it, although he didn't invent it. He and his fellow Hellenistic astronomers adopted the Babylonian sexagesimal system. The hour, like a degree of angle, was divided into 60 smaller parts, which they called "mintua prima", the first small part, and then each of those was divided into 60 even smaller parts, dubbed "mintua secunda", or second small part. So, there you go, a second is just that, the second, smaller part of the hour.
And there we have it, the solar day is divided into 24 hours, which in term are divided into minutes and seconds, for a total of 86,400 second small parts per solar day. A second is thus defined as 1/86,400th of a solar day. But there’s a little problem there. The solar day is not constant, not uniform. Remember, the earth has to rotate a little more than one revolution to catch back up to the sun due to orbital motion. But, due to the eccentricity and the tilt of the earth’s axis relative to the orbital plane, this extra amount of rotation varies over the tropical year. Today, that varies from about 30 seconds longer to about 18 seconds less than 24 “uniform hours” over the course of the tropical year.
The ancients were aware of this as well, probably back to the Babylonians. Ptolemy and the boys were certainly aware of it and published crude tables to correct for this. But there was no understanding of the actual mechanism. Anyway, they came up with the concept of an average or mean motion of the sun. The difference between the actual position of the sun and this average position is called the Equation of Time and was used to correct sundials to “mean time”. This early understanding was crude, but they were aware of it that far back.
And that’s the way it was. Now, fast forward through the Middle Ages and to the Renaissance. There came Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, and the development of classical physics and understanding of the solar system and the mechanism of the motions of the celestial bodies. Also, we had the invention of mechanical clocks, which made using the “small parts”, minutes and seconds, practical. Mechanical clocks attempt to track “uniform time”, of course, and this made the Equation of Time notion must more apparent. Flamsteed (first Astronomer Royal) and Huygens worked out the Equation of Time precisely from Newtonian orbital mechanics and published accurate tables by the beginning of the 18th century.
And thus, the notion of “mean solar time” became theoretically defined and understood to high precision. This was very important for the development of precision navigation and the Longitude Problem and all that. But for the common man, it didn’t become that important until later. Clocks and watches were still mostly directly set by the sun, using apparent solar time to synchronize. It wasn’t until the concept of Standard Time and time zones came about that this became the standard for everyday use.
Thus, mean solar time was now the standard of timekeeping. The variable motion of the sun (more precisely, the earth’s orbital motion coupled with axial tilt) was averaged out. The length of the mean solar day and thus mean solar time depended only on the rotational speed of the earth. The earth was much more accurate over the long term than even the best mechanical clocks of the day. Precise astronomical observations were used to synchronize these clocks as needed. But then another little problem came up as astronomical observations and orbital mechanics became more and more accurate and precise. Based on Newtonian orbital mechanics, and calculations of the complex perturbations (look up the 3-body and N-body problem), the motions of the planets could be predicted to high precision. But they got to noticing some discrepancies there, which couldn’t be explained by the known perturbations. The moon, or Mars, or the Sun wouldn’t be exactly where it should be as a function of mean solar time.
They began to suspect the problem was with mean solar time, the earth as a clock. Maybe the earth’s rotation wasn’t as constant as we thought. This was strongly suspected in the late 18th century and was confirmed by the middle and late 19th centuries. The earth was not an absolutely accurate clock compared to the current precision of astronomical prediction and observation. Thus, the need for a truly uniform, or “Newtonian”, time scale was needed. It’s a bit hard to get your head wrapped around the concept, but the idea is to let the motions of the celestial bodies be your clock, and not the rotation of the earth. This is conceptually the same as that of a mechanical clock itself. We have some physical process, some motion involved, which by the laws of physics can be predicted as a precise function of time. The position of the hands on a clock are governed by this. The position of the hands tells us what time it is. And likewise, and to much higher accuracy, the positions of the planets, moon and Sun relative to the background stars can be the hands of clock that tell us what time it is.
In general, this is called a “dynamical time scale”. The astronomical version here became known as ephemeris time. This became well developed by the early 20th century, and allowed comparisons of mean solar time to this more accurate time scale. But soon thereafter, atomic clocks were invented, which were a game changer for timekeeping. The accuracy and precision became orders upon orders of magnitude greater than the most accurate mechanical clocks before. We now had a physical device to measure uniform time very precisely, far better than ephemeris time, down to the nanosecond.
The “second small part”, the second, had become our fundamental unit of time. We now got very precise in how we defined it. Previously, it was 1/86,400th of a mean solar day. With ephemeris time, it became defined as a certain fraction of the sidereal, and then tropical year. It was chosen to be as close as possible to the current solar day definition and was roughly about the length of one solar day second around 1850. Then with atomic clocks, it became defined in terms of the frequency of a particular transition of cesium atoms. IOW, it’s the period of a particular frequency of light, well microwave not visible light, waves. We now have an independent, uniform standard of time independent of astronomical processes. And thus, we can now measure to high accuracy what’s going on with the variable rotation of the earth.
Now, the accuracy of this, the estimates of the length of the mean solar day at any given time, depends on the accuracy of astronomical observations, which gets less and less as you can back in the past. Turns out, the accuracy is pretty good back to around 1830 or so, and with modern ephemerides, we have even more precise predictions of where things should be when they were observed. Timeanddate.com has a page with a graph of the mean length of the day, and hence the variation in the earth’s rotation here: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/earth-rotation.html
Since atomic clocks came into use, it’s possible to get much finer grained data and see the variation of the earth’s rotation on a day-to-day basis. IERS is the official source of all this, but a wiki article has a good graph in the link below of the LOD since 1962:
The green line is a yearly moving average which corresponds to the graph above, which we can call a “mean mean” solar day (one “mean” averaging out the sun, the other mean being the yearly earth rotation average). The gray line is the short-term variation in the length of day. You can see that over the course of year; the length of the day varies by around 2 – 2.5ms.
So, around 1870, the earth was spinning about 3 milliseconds (ms) faster than 24 hours of uniform SI time. And that’s a lot faster than even the speedup of today the Daily Mail and others were click-baiting about. But, by the early 1900s, it had slowed down to about 4 ms slower than 24 hours. So, it swung about 7 ms in 30 years. In another 30 years, it sped back up to around 0ms, then slowed down again. By 1972, when the UTC time scheme was put into place, the earth was about 3 ms slow. That’s the “root cause” of leap seconds, given the definition of the UTC scale. And then the earth started speeding again, with some bouncing around up until now. What’s notable is around 2020, the earth sped up enough that it was faster than 24 hours for the first time in nearly 100 years.
So, what is going on with this variation? A lot. A lot of geophysical and celestial processes are afoot there. You can see there are many cycles going on in that curve, and spectral analysis can reveal the frequencies involved. There are more than few periods there. Over the short term, the variation from day to day and month to month over the course of the year is driven by tidal friction and atmospheric and oceanic angular momentum exchanges. We’ve got fluids, air and water, sloshing around on this spinning ball. Angular momentum is exchanged between that and the solid earth below. Next are seasonal periods of the atmosphere and ocean over the course of a tropical year. Then we have periods longer than a year up to 30 years. Some of these are understood, while some are not so well understood. The 18.6 year lunar cycle comes in there for longer term tidal variation. Longer term climatic processes like El Nino and similar weather patterns are also in there. Core-mantle dynamics are in there as well, and this is one of the poorly understood ones. The 11-year solar cycle is also seen in there as well, not well understood either.
Now, what about the long term, the very long term, time scales of tens of thousands to millions of years? The main driver is the moon and tidal friction which is gradually and inexorably slowing the earth down (and, by conservation of angular momentum, causing the Moon to recede from the earth). Over geological time scales, this rate is variable, depending on how close the Moon (also the Sun, which is a secondary tidal driver, but the Moon is the main drive) is. It also depends on just how big the tidal bulges are, which depends on a lot of complex factors, including the rotation speed itself. Right now, (and this “moment” right now is probably 100,000 years or so, and certainly 10,000 years), the current rate of tidal slowing is about 2.3 ms per century. That is, absent all other factors, the length of the day should be increasing at 2.3 ms per century.
The curve on that timeanddate.com page graph goes back to 1830. It’s possible to go back even farther than that, but with less accuracy. 1623 is the limit, and below is an IERS page with yearly LOD values back to then:
Values over the 1700s are reasonably accurate, but the data before then is a bit sparse and scattered but nonetheless is not so bad as to be unusable. The first thing that jumps out is the earth seems to have been spinning pretty fast around 1623, 11 ms fast compared to 24-hour SI base time but slowed down pretty rapidly over the next 30 years. After that, things look more reasonable. Is that real, or just poor data? Well, it’s likely something real. The uncertainty there should be no more than 3 ms. And that time period is interesting. That was just a little before the Maunder Minimum, the little ice age. So, did the relatively fast spinning earth slowing down rapidly have any relation to that? Don’t know for sure, but it’s damned interesting.
And finally, remember the tidal slowing rate of 2.3 ms per century. While complex, that value is well known from current tidal dynamics. However, if we take that data since 1623 and calculate a linear trend line over that 400-year period, we find it was indeed slowing down, but only at 1.33 ms per century, not the 2.3 ms tidal rate. Either way, the earth was spinning about 6 to 8 ms faster than it should be relative to expected baseline in 1623.
But beyond that 1623 fast spin, something is counteracting the tidal braking at least over those 400 years. Estimates of this can go back much farther in geological time. The main driver of the difference there is thought to be GIA, global isostatic adjustment, or glacial rebound. The earth is still adjusting to the loss of the ice sheets from the last glacial period, those big ice sheets covering Canada and northern Europe and all that. The net effect, which is a gradual long-term process, is the earth becomes less oblate, and the moment of inertia decreases. This is sort of counterintuitive at first, but it has to do with how the mantle responds to the shifting weight of the ice sheets.
That’s likely one factor. Another is that elusive core-mantle coupling thing. And then something else might be going on, some unknown unknown. At any rate, over the last ~12,000 years ago, since the start of the Holocene, the long-term trend is about 1.7 ms per century. So, we’d expect the earth was spinning about 0.2 seconds faster in 10,000 BC than now – that doesn’t seem like much, but with the current definition of the UTC time scale, that would require a negative leap second every 4 days. Going back a lot farther, the day was about 23.5 hours (give or take a few minutes) about 65 million years ago, when the SMOD wiped out the dinosaurs. The dinosaur year would’ve been about 372.36 solar days per year. We could have 12 months of 31 days each and a leap year every 3 years (Feb. 32nd?). And finally, there is now good evidence that the earth’s rotation stalled at 19 hours for a period of 1 billion years, from about 1.8 billion years ago to 800 million. In a complex process, the solar atmospheric tide cancelled out the lunar tide. During this time the calendar would’ve required 461 days per year.
Big thank you, publius!
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Cookie jar can be surprisingly noisy in the middle of the night.
A bit more time related content. Watches and quartz. What makes them tick is fascinating. A good amount of science, persistence, and an attention span required to make them work properly.
Why are young people—in the US and around the world—shifting right?
I wrote about a phenomenon I call Generation C—the young people whose experience with COVID's health, political, and economic crises caused a strong shift right among young ppl across the developed world.
AI and Jobs - A discussion with a Gen Z with a brain.
Had a youngin' over for dinner recently. He's in his mid-20s, has a degree in data science, and is heading into his final year of law school. His well of knowledge isn't yet deep, but his brain is impressive. He has the ability to distill ideas quickly, logically, and with the end goal in mind. I really enjoy hearing his perspective.
Young guy/oldish guy post-dinner conversation ended up mirroring many of the same themes discussed here at AoSHQ. We agreed that AI is a tool - more accurately a wrench/implement in the toolbox. Plausibly a very useful and common one, like a Phillips screwdriver or a 1/2" combo wrench. Not something obscure like a sink basin wrench.
We chatted about past "game-changing" technologies that were supposed to redefine or eliminate entire professions. We got sidetracked on how Excel was once predicted to make accountants obsolete. Obviously, that didn't happen. Instead, it created new opportunities - accountants now use it to crunch and present more data, and analyze more information to better serve their tasks.
Our next topic was that of job displacement. Yes, there will be some. But many of the roles most susceptible to automation aren't major pillars of the broader economy. That's not to dismiss the personal impact of job loss - just to say the macroeconomic effect may be limited. Think: proofreaders, entry-level bookkeeping, graphic design. And yes, coding came up.
AI can write syntactically correct code faster than humans. But that doesn't mean it replaces human coders entirely. The young man codes in Python (he hates HTML), and deploys AI for straightforward coding tasks, but builds out routines when specific logic is required - riddle solving. In his view, coding is just another tool to amplify human ability - not eliminate it. Smart kid.
Plenty of studies out there trying to predict which jobs AI will create or eliminate. Scroll through a few articles, and you'll see the same roles landing on both sides of the ledger. As usual, the alleged Smarties, simply don't know.
Which brought us to our final discussion point/topic: AI can assist, but it can't pull the mental levers that drive real value - strategy, negotiation, leadership, communication, creativity. Those remain the domain of Morons. And other humans.
Share your AI thoughts in the comments.
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This ONT brought to you by: An inside straight draw (Ace of Spades high) and Three Dog Night.
The UK Is Roiled Again As a 13-Year-Old Scottish Girl is Arrested... for the Crime of Brandishing a Knife and Hatchet to Keep a Foreign Man from Sexually Harassing Her 12-Year-Old Sister
—Ace
Aesthetica
@Anc_Aesthetics
Haven't been able to get this story out of my head. I think this moment is the turning point.
You're either the type of country that allows little innocent girls to be fed to the wolves and forced to defend herself against migrant rapists or you're the type of country where the men say enough is enough and take their country back.
It's now or never.
Why was this man so absolutely insistent on his "right" to speak to 12- and 13-year-old girls on the street?
They're obviously afraid of him. One brandishes the weapons, but does so in a retreat. The man, filled with arrogance and superiority -- and Colonizer's Privilege -- films the girls demanding that he leave them alone as if they're the ones causing the breach of the peace, as he continues dogging them.
A 14-year-old girl in Scotland has been charged with possession of a knife after viral footage showed her and another minor being approached and filmed by at least one foreign man.
The girl brandishes a knife and an axe before walking away from the scene.
A 14-year-old girl in Scotland has been charged with possession of a knife after viral footage showed her and another minor being approached and filmed by at least one foreign man.
The girl brandishes a knife and an axe before walking away from the scene.
The incident occurred on Saturday evening in the Lochee area of Dundee.
"She will be reported to the relevant authorities," said a Police Scotland spokesperson.
Via Beege Wellborn, the little girl was indeed "reported to the authorities," probably by the same adult man harassing them.
And then she was arrested.
For telling an adult man to stay away from her 12-year-old sister. (Or "friend" -- not sure.)
Elon Musk is on a tear about this:
Start by condemning the grovelers and collaborators in positions of authority in Britain who aided the rape epidemic of their own people or turned a blind eye to their responsibilities.
If one immigrates to any given country, they must respect the laws and culture of that country and contribute to that country to the best of their ability, doing no harm.
That applies to ALL countries.
85 cities in Britain where local authorities were complicit in the rape of children … https://t.co/20tp9VFFAv
Rupert Lowe was kicked out of Reform for backing mass deportations, which Farage opposes.
Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
Farage has just attacked me for backing mass deportations -- let me be clear about what happened.
What he is referring to is my support for removing foreign/dual nationals who were aware that their husband/brother/uncle/son was raping vulnerable young white girls on an industrial scale.
If they knew, and did nothing, then yes. They should be removed from our country. I make absolutely NO apologies for stating that. I do not want such evil walking our streets. Deport them all.
If that results in entire communities being deported, then that is what must happen. Obviously.
The number is irrelevant. Everyone who knew and did nothing must go. If a Pakistani woman knew that her husband was raping a young white girl, facilitating it? Then yes - she should go back to Pakistan with her husband.
It's shocking that Farage doesn't agree.
At a Reform event in Essex, Farage even removed the line 'mass deportation' from my speech.
He later told the Telegraph he thought it was 'a very grave, dark and dangerous use of language.'
What's changed?
In that same speech he instructed me to remove a reference to deporting these complicit foreign nationals. I refused. I'm glad I did.
He says millions can't go? I disagree.
My position is clear, and it's one the British people agree with.
Mass deportation of every single illegal migrant. Abolish the entire asylum system. Review all refugee claims given to illegal arrivals, with deportation the default. And actually, the biggest problem of them all? Legal immigration.
A large number of legal migrants, who have failed to uphold their end of the deal, need to go home too.
Not working, not contributing, not integrating, not even speaking English? Go home.
From what I can see - the Reform plan is nowhere near enough. Even on deporting illegals. It's just not enough. It's weak. They ALL must go. Not some, ALL.
Farage was also questioned why my plan would cost far more than his? His response?
Because "Zia is really good at maths".
No. It's because it's because your plan is weak.
All very disappointing. We need to be brave to take our country back, and this is not brave.
We have already shifted the entire public debate in six months. Let's keep pushing.
Mass deportations, and I mean proper mass deportations, must happen.
Farage has just attacked me for backing mass deportations - let me be clear about what happened.
What he is referring to is my support for removing foreign/dual nationals who were aware that their husband/brother/uncle/son was raping vulnerable young white girls on an industrial… pic.twitter.com/Jkvt4eGgZv
Meanwhile, the British woman who was literally imprisoned for a single tweet objecting to the mass colonization by third-world grooming gangs and sex-pests has been released from prison.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Tuesday confirmed to President Donald Trump that his department is still on track to publish information identifying "interventions" that are contributing to a rise in autism.
Kennedy first announced a joint research effort to find the root causes of autism in April as part of the Trump administration's "Make America Healthy Again" mission. One-in-36 children have autism spectrum disorder, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report in 2020.
Trump also established a commission in February that would look at everything from the rates of autism and asthma in children to how much medicine is being prescribed to children for ADHD or other conditions.
The update comes after Trump asked Kennedy how the research was going during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, according to The Hill.
"We are doing very well," Kennedy said. "We will have announcements as promised in September, finding interventions, certain interventions, now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism. And we're going to be able to address those in September."
Health "experts" claim there is no epidemic, just increased "awareness" of autism and therefore increased diagnosis.
We'll see. If it does turn out that Kennedy can prove his case, and it turns out the government allowed or even curated this epidemic for political reasons, there will be absolute hell to pay.
I'm skeptical, just because vaccines are tested a lot, and supposedly, the tests say they're "safe."
But then, we've learned an awful lot about Big Pharma's "tests" and the self-dealing of FDA officials who hope to one day work for Big Pharma for the high six-figures.
🚨 BREAKING: RFK Jr. says HHS believes they have FOUND "interventions" which caused a MASSIVE spike in autism in children -- will announce in September
TRUMP: "There HAS to be something artificially causing this. Meaning a drug or something...I think we maybe know the reason..."… pic.twitter.com/0Rnlcd5ZqX
As though it's a bad thing, the far-left New York Times reported that for the first time in decades the immigration population has dropped in the U.S.
"For the first time in decades, more immigrants are leaving the United States than arriving, a new study finds," the Times reported, adding that this signifies "an early indication that President Trump's hard-line immigration agenda is leading people to depart -- whether through deportation or by choice."
"An analysis of new census data released ... found that between January and June, the foreign-born population in the United States -- both lawful and unlawful residents -- declined by nearly 1.5 million," the report continued. "In June, the country was home to 51.9 million immigrants, down from 53.3 million six months earlier."
Naturally, the Times summed it all up using unnamed, cherry-picked "experts":
But experts predict looming negative economic and demographic consequences for the United States if the trend persists. Immigrants are a critical work force in many sectors, and the country's reliance on them is growing as more baby boomers retire.
The Times even went as far as to advocate for illegal alien labor...
"Restaurants, farms and assisted-living facilities are already grappling with labor shortages that could become more pronounced," one so-called expert told the Times. "Many of those roles are filled by undocumented immigrants, whose population reached 14 million in 2023[.]"
If the Times is telling you the overall illegal population is 14 million, you can bet it's at least twice that.
The Times won't say how many of "immigrants" leaving are actually criminals, but Nolte has the answer:
According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics study released this month, the overall foreign-born population drop is higher than what the Times reported: 2.2 million, which is made up of 1.6 million illegal aliens.
The District of Columbia has gone 12 days without a single murder following President Trump's federal takeover of DC police -- a feat seen only one other time since the pandemic spike in bloody violence.
The current streak of no killings is uncommon in the nation's capital, which has one of the highest murder rates among major US cities. There have already been more than 100 homicides so far this year.
In March, Washington went 16 days without a murder, which was the longest period in "at least six years," an MPD spokesman told the Washington Post at the time.
But a bloodless streak in the heat of summer is even more impressive, because killings usually spike as more people spend more time mingling outside.
The last recorded murder in the US capital was Aug. 13, two days after Trump announced the department would be federalized and the National Guard would be deployed on city streets.
Some DC locals told The Post they felt the presence of agents helped keep would-be lawbreakers on their best behavior.
"With all these agents around, people are not gonna be stupid and just go out there and commit crimes, so I think that's helped subside everything that's going on," Dion, a barber in downtown DC, said of the show of force.
Though he conceded the federal officers' presence has overall been good for reducing crime, he questioned why the effort started in Washington instead of the president's hometown.
"Trump is from New York, why didn't he take this up in New York first?" he said. "It may be worse than DC."
It is, in fact, worse in DC.
Washington's murder rate was 26 per 100,000 residents in 2024 -- though killings dropped by 30% from a year prior, according to an analysis from the Council on Criminal Justice.
By comparison, Chicago had a murder rate of 21.8 per 100,000. In New York City, it was 3.8 -- one-seventh the rate for the nation's capital.
Stephen Miller celebrated the results, and noted that the pre-surge DC crime figures are far, far worse than reported, because the government has been cooking the books to make "decarceration" look successful.
🚨 BREAKING: Stephen Miller just revealed that a "massive scandal" has been uncovered in Washington DC. The Democrat-run police department has been extensively hiding crime statistics, going so far as reporting homicides as "accidents instead of m*rders."
Why is punishing criminals "racist," Black Power Brandon? You have to explain this to me.
Surely you don't mean that black people have a right to commit crimes without punishment. Surely you can't mean that.
(Spoiler: He does mean that. They all mean that.)
WOW. Iris Tao, a White House Correspondent, THANKS President Trump for cracking down on D.C. crime after revealing she'd been robbed and pistol-whipped outside her apartment.
"Mr. President, thank you so much for what you're doing right now... Thank you for now making D.C.… pic.twitter.com/ZDDYsV4HJz
Woke black racist Abby Philip keeps platforming notorious MSNBC black racist Tiffany Cross.
Cross stated on her show that it is a "fact, not opinion" that Stephen Miller is a "white supremacist."
Unfortunately I think a leftwing judge will claim this is an "opinion" that can't count as defamation, despite the racist Cross repeatedly insisting it's a fact.
But he should definitely sue this nasty fat Black Nazi Skank.
"Any time that we play something from Stephen Miller, it would be journalistic integrity to point out that he is a white supremacist and he is the brainchild behind this policy. That's not my opinion. That's actual fact."
Judge Orders Fani Willis to Provide More Information About Her Alleged Search for Emails Between Her Office and Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith
—Ace
Records searches are usually done electronically those days. You enter a series of search terms and the computer spits out results. These are the emails termed "responsive documents" -- they are responsive to your search terms.
Criminals in the government have long used pseudonyms so that you can't find their very responsive emails by search terms. John Brennan can claim he has no "responsive" documents scheming about prosecuting Trump with the anti-American foreign plant Barack Obama, because Obama used a lot of fake names in his emails.
And, of course, someone pretending to "search" her records with Jack Smith could deliberately avoid searching for the key terms that would bring up Smith's emails. She could say "I found no responsive documents" even though she rigged the search to not find the documents.
Judicial Watch seems to suspect that Fani Willis is an untrustworthy criminal and actually corresponded with Jack Smith while claiming "no responsive documents." Who knows what Willis is hiding -- her, and her illicit gigolo lover Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., or his "legal partners" Lance Clamhammer and Rex DeQuim.
Judicial Watch on Monday announced that a Georgia judge last week ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to provide additional information in her search for records related to her prosecution of President Donald Trump.
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Willis' office later admitted that it had found some missing records during a fifth search of her office, and her office was ordered to supply over 212 pages of records and provide an affidavit detailing how the records were found.
The Judicial Watch lawsuit as well as a House Judiciary inquiry were seeking to find out the extent of cooperation between Willis' office and the highly politicized January 6 Committee, along with Jack Smith's office. But when Willis originally claimed she had no such records, it also became a question of what she was hiding and why.
The judge noted in last week's order that Willis' recent affidavit regarding her office's search for the Trump-related records did not include information on whether the devices owned by former Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade [government name: Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq.] or Chief Investigator Michael Hill were searched for the records.
The Georgia judge instructed Willis to clarify whether Wade's devices were searched and to search the devices if they were not. The judge also directed Willis to provide the search protocols used on Hill's and Wade's devices.
"Fani Willis can't be trusted," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
NYT obtained a letter from Jack Smith's attorneys insisting he did not violate the Hatch Act by bringing two unprecedented criminal indictments against President Trump a little over a year before the 2024 election.
Meanwhile, Public Masturbator and Abortion-Procurer Jeffrey Toobin says there has never, ever been a weaponization of government like we're seeing from Trump.
— Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author (@yesnicksearcy) August 26, 2025
A very incomplete list of prominent Republicans prosecuted during the Biden Admin:
Donald Trump (4 separate jurisdictions) Rudy Giuliani Mark Meadows John Eastman Sidney Powell George Santos Jeff Fortenberry Steve Bannon Peter Navarro Kenneth Chesebro Jenna Ellis Jeffrey Clark… https://t.co/IJxbu985AO
Podcast: 600,000 Chinese spies given visas? Scotland relies on 14-year-old girls for their defense, tariffs work! mortgage fraud is the new thing, and more!
The "hip" gray corporate slop era of Cracker Barrel is put on hold (supposedly):
Bret Baier
@BretBaier
Cracker Barrel is going back to the old logo. Company statement:
"We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away and our "Old Timer" will remain. At Cracker Barrel, it's always been - and always will be - about serving up delicious food, warm welcomes, and the kind of country hospitality that feels like family. As a proud American institution, our 70,000 hardworking employees look forward to welcoming you to our table soon."
Elric the Blade says he's no longer sure that Trump will have the right to appeal in the NY fraud case: Yesterday, I thought that Trump had an appeal as of right on the fraud liability, based upon news reports that cited the second opinion as declining to find in favor of liability. That would give Trump at least 2 dissenting judges for an appeal as of right.
But now, after seeing the actual decisions, I'm not so sure. Sorry, guys. I've never seen or heard of what the second opinion did. They dissented, but ... decided not to dissent? I'm not sure what the effect is in terms of whether Trump has a right to appeal. I doubt anyone does.
I think even if Trump doesn't have a right of appeal, the Court of Appeals (NY's highest court) will take the case. But ... it's a liberal court so who knows how they'll rule.
I have the docket number so I can track what gets appealed to the Court of Appeals. If Trump wants to appeal, I think he might file an appeal as of right and a petition for permission to appeal. His lawyers know this case much better than I, but even they might know what the effect of all the opinions are.
I don't think they'll take the appeal. Judges are lazy and cowardly and will duck any hot potato case they can. These judges are also liberal hacks, and do not want to deliver Trump a full victory.
FBI raids home of John Bolton, former Trump national security advisor "The probe is eyeing multiple instances of the use of classified documents in leaks to news media. NBC reported that the investigation into Bolton began during the Biden administration, but did not go further before President Joe Biden left office in January." [CBD]
Podcast: Boots on the ground in Ukraine? We're against it! Trump shines a light on voting, Miss Universe wearing a suicide vest? And more!
"As the discussion continued, Fox News host Charlie Hurt asked Trump directly to confirm there will be no U.S. troops involved in this potential security umbrella for Ukraine. "Well, you have my assurance, and I'm president," Trump replied." Good! I hope I am wrong! [CBD]
Lost Seventies Mystery Click: The Darkest Song Ever Recorded? I think Professor of Rock (on YouTube) claimed this song was so upsetting that people used to pull over to the side of the road when it came on the radio. It's about a fatal plane crash, but obviously it suggests a fatal car crash too, which could wig out a driver. It's like one of those nasty 70s anti-war body horror movies. Not for the squeamish. I'm not even going to post the lyrics because they're upsetting too.
Compilation of Naked Gun intros That theme gets me charged. Compilation of all Police Squad! openings. They're all the same except for the last few seconds where they reveal the Special Guest Star and the title(s).
Lost 90s Mystery Click: College Radio Edition
Well you look fantastic in your cast-off casket
At least the thing still runs
This nine to five bullshit don't let you forget
Whose suicide you're on.
Also: You wax poetic about things pathetic
As long as you look so cute
Believe these hills are starting to roll
Believe these stars are starting to shoot
Podcast: In the last Episode of the season CBD and J.J. Sefton chat about Texas Gerrymandering, The Islamist who is about to be the mayor of NYC, Jim Acosta's ghoulish interview, Israel needs a new strategy for Gaza, and more!
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