Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - March 11, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for very random mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
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Stormchaser Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Jim Scott Photo
Puppy has too much blanket for too little dog.
Big dog needs his comfort wooby.
Graduation day for service dogs.
Punch the monkey is now an XXXtreme daredevil.
Me when I drop the remote under the couch.
Missing dog, answers to Chewbacca or "Chewie."
It's funny when dogs disobey their masters.
Buying $60 of cat toys: No reaction at all. Throwing a piece of random crap on the ground: Endless playtime possibilities.
Anteater plays. Keep your eye on its real head. It's like three card monty.
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Has the Drone Phase of the War Begun?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I mentioned at the beginning of the war that the only possibility that I could see for fighting a ground war without ground troops (apart from SpecOps spotters spies and such) is to adapt the tactics of the Ukraine-Russia war, using drones to attack personnel on the ground.
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FBI Warns That Iran Plots an "Army of Drones" Launched from a Stealth Vessel Against the West Coast
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I suppose it's possible that Iran sneaked a drone-carrier out of the Persian Gulf in the weeks before the war, plotting a spoilsport retaliation attack. And I guess it would have taken that ship a couple of months to get into position.
Not sure why they'd attack anti-America California, but then they did attack their own allies in Qatar.
The FBI issued an urgent warning to cops across California of a potential Iranian drone strike on the Golden State.Tehran was looking at deploying unmanned aircraft on the region as the country reels after the US wiped out its Supreme Leader last month, the alert said.
The Bureau said in early February agents had intelligence that drones could be sent from an unidentified vessel off the American coastline.
California has the highest concentration of Iranian dissidents in the US -- up to 500,000 -- but it is not clear if that was why the state could be targeted.The FBI alert said: "We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran."
The alert was sent to police departments across the region, but it does not make it clear where specifically could be targeted. The FBI declined to comment when approached by The Post. Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
It added: "We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack."
The alert was sent to police departments across the region, but it does not make it clear where specifically could be targeted. The FBI declined to comment when approached by The Post.
It is very plausible that the psychopathic murderers of the old regime would want to kill the Iranians who fled it, just out of spite and a sense of anger at the slaves who got away.
Indeed, Tehran's chief of police is warning people that he will murder them just for singing songs.
National police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan says that demonstrating against the regime now makes protesters enemies of the state. "If anyone comes forward in line with the wishes of the enemy, we will no longer see them as merely a protester; we will see them as an enemy," Radan said in remarks broadcast late Tuesday by state broadcaster IRIB."And we will do to them what we do to an enemy. We will deal with them in the same way we deal with enemies," he added.
The warning was explicit and obscene. "All our forces are also ready, with their fingers on the trigger, prepared to defend their revolution," said Radan.
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Gangs of Basij enforcers, often heavily armed, roam the streets, threatening civilians and forcing them indoors. Anyone who looks like they might be thinking of protesting is threatened or beaten or worse. There are checkpoints across every city. Known protesters are scrutinized even as they move through the streets to get basic necessities.
Tousi reported two hopeful claims:
1, with the money now run out, and belief that the regime is effectively dead, a lot of lower level IRGC and Basij thug enforcers are just abandoning their posts and melting away.
2, the IRGC and the Satanic Mullahs are supposedly in some kind of dispute. Not a hot war, but a contest for authority. When the Gulf States announced they would take military action in retribution for Iran's unprovoked strikes on them, the mullahs put out a statement that they did not mean to hit the Gulf States, and would refrain from doing so in the future. But the IRGC contradicted them and said oh yes we meant to hit you and we'll keep on doing it, and forced the clerics of Satan to walk back their apology.
I'm still very confused about how we actually topple the regime with no ground forces, but maybe the various ethnic enclaves will rise up and at least declare their own areas to be autonomous.
There are reports we used the "Mother of All Bombs" for the first time, to blow up underground missile storage and production facilities, but I think this is all unconfirmed.
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Little Khamenei, Who Is Probably Dead or In a Coma, May Inherit His Corrupt Father's $95 BILLION Business Empire
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Gee I wonder why Iranians are so poor.
Mojtaba Khamenei will rule over the repressed Iranian population with an iron fist after replacing his slain father as the country's Supreme Leader.The 'vengeful' cleric, 56, is backed by the hardline Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and is viewed as even more extreme and oppressive than his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
And reportedly 90% as dead.
Iran's new leader is said to want to 'seek revenge' against the US or even ordinary Iranians for the killing of his father and his wife.Mojtaba, who has been wounded in the war, has not been seen in public since the outbreak of conflict and has been earmarked for assassination by Israel.
But as he asserts his power over his beleaguered nation he could benefit from his father's extraordinary business empire, worth an estimated $95billion, which he built up by systematically seizing thousands of properties belonging to ordinary Iranians.
Word is (from Tousi) that the regime is running out of money, so they're just now looting it from the population.
And despite being sanctioned by the US in 2019, Mojtaba is said to oversee an investment empire of over 100million pounds, with access to luxury properties in north London and bank accounts in the UK, Switzerland, UAE and Liechtenstein.He is believed to own 11 properties on The Bishops Avenue - an exclusive street in Hampstead, north London, also known as 'Billionaires' Row' and two luxury apartments overlooking the Israeli embassy in London.
The sixth and seventh floor apartments near the Israeli embassy, which come with servants' quarters on the ground floor, are a stone's throw from Kensington Palace, the official residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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As for the funding of this substantial portfolio, Mojtaba is believed to have siphoned off profit from Iranian oil sales, before funnelling it through his opaque network to evade international sanctions aimed at curbing Tehran's military and political operations.
And lest you think that rapacious looting of public money is something only foreign tyrants do, look what Ayatollah Obama is up to.
The scandal-plagued Obama Presidential Center in Chicago already stirred up plenty of controversy. Now the money trail surrounding it raises even more uncomfortable questions about how former President Barack Obama's inner circle is cashing in while taxpayers get screwed over.
New federal tax filings reveal the staggering salaries flowing through the Obama Foundation as construction of the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park nears completion. The foundation will operate the massive 19.3-acre campus, which sits on publicly owned Chicago parkland. The project includes a museum, an athletic center, and a public library branch. It will not operate as a traditional presidential library overseen by the National Archives.The land it sits on is a big part of the scheme. The Obama Foundation secured a 99-year agreement with the city, under which the foundation pays just $10 per year to use the plot. That deal alone costs Chicago tens of millions of dollars in potential value while handing over prime public property to a private nonprofit run by a former president.
With such a sweet deal in place, the foundation has been able to pay its officers inflated salaries, the most eye‑popping of which is paid to Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's closest political confidantes. Jarrett "earned" $740,000 in 2024 as CEO of the Obama Foundation. That salary easily outpaces the compensation paid to leaders at several other presidential foundations.
Six of the foundation's 10 highest-paid executives previously held senior roles in the Obama administration or campaign. David Simas, Obama's former White House political director, earned up to $626,000 annually while leading the foundation from 2017 through 2020. Adewale Adeyemo, another senior Obama official who later became deputy Treasury secretary under Joe Biden, earned about $540,000 as the foundation's first president.
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"Illinois Democrats are truly living their best lives -- making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help design the ugliest building in Chicago," Illinois GOP Chairman Kathy Salvi said. Though, to be fair, it might be the ugliest building in the country. "Their jaw-dropping salaries prove that Illinois' culture of corruption is alive and well as Barack Obama's top allies rake in the cash."
Meanwhile, this third-world scumbag just got roasted by Jesse Jackson's son for making the Jackson funeral all about him and partisan Democrat politics.
"He's like the quiet race hustler," Carolla said of Obama, who routinely made race-based matters worse both during and after his presidency.Just ask his "son," Trayvon Martin.
"He's not big and blathering. He seems calculated, and also he speaks in a cadence where you go, 'this guy's got wisdom. This guy knows what he's talking about.' But all he does is race hustle, beat up this country and lie.
"He's the first black president. It could have gone so differently," Carolla continued. "He really could have been impactful, a man in his position ... he and his wife, who's worse than him, all they do is sit around and bad mouth this country and tell us how bad it is."
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CBS Report: Billions of Dollars of "Hospice Care" Fraud in Los Angeles Alone; One Building Sports Eighty-Nine Fake "Hospice Care" Offices
—Disinformation Expert Ace
So, mutlibillion dollar network CBS has finally started investigating what sole-proprietor Nick Shirley uncovered months ago.
I guess it's something.
Hospice care, if you're fortunate enough not to know, is end-of-life care for the terminally ill. "Palliative care" -- just "making the patient comfortable."
And absolute demons have created hundreds -- thousands, likely -- of completely fake "hospice care" businesses and are fraudulently signing up perfectly healthy people for hundreds of thousands of dollars of "hospice care" per fake "patient" that is never delivered, only billed to the taxpayers.
We visited "ground zero" for hospice fraud: Los Angeles, CaliforniaA CBS News analysis of records for every hospice operating in Los Angeles County finds indications of fraud are growing.
By Rachel Gold, Laura Geller, Adam Yamaguchi and Graham Kates
At age 69, Lynn Ianni is a pickleball whiz, zipping from dinks to drives energetically. When she suffered an injury on the court two years ago, she sought physical therapy, and was surprised to learn her Medicare insurance wouldn't cover it.
She was, according to Medicare records, dying and in hospice.
"They said, 'you're in hospice.' And I said, 'what? What are you talking about?" Ianni said. "'Are you kidding me? Do I look like I'm in hospice?'"
Ianni's Medicare number had been stolen, and used by a company to fraudulently enroll her in hospice -- specialized, compassionate care for terminal patients nearing the end of their lives. It was another example of fraud in the hospice industry, long a nationwide problem. But her case arose well after officials had promised to stamp it out in California, where the problem has been especially acute.
Ianni was initially approved for physical therapy treatments through Medicare. But later, her coverage was denied because she was listed as receiving hospice care, and the services were deemed not covered -- even though she was not, and has never been, in hospice. CBS News
Three years ago, California's state auditor sounded the alarm that Los Angeles County had seen a 1,500% increase in hospice companies since 2010 -- more than six times the national average relative to its elderly population.Auditors estimated LA County hospices overbilled Medicare by $105 million in a single year. The report called out notable red flags -- key warning signs of fraud:
Multiple hospices in one building
Geographic clustering
Low patient counts
High rates of terminally ill patients later discharged alive
Excessive billing
Staff shared across multiple companies
The state says it proceeded to investigate and revoke the licenses of 280 hospices.
But since then, the problem has continued to fester. CBS News examined the business and financial records of every hospice currently operating in LA County, applying the same indicators identified by the state. Indications of fraud have not stopped. In fact, they've grown.
The CBS News analysis reveals that over 700 of the roughly 1,800 hospices in LA County, trigger multiple red flags for fraud as defined by the state.
California is confronting this problem as Gavin Newsom, its Democratic governor, eyes a potential presidential run. Fraud in public services has become a thorny political issue. Republicans and an army of social media influencers have seized on the issue as politically potent -- accusing Democratic state executives of failing to prevent costly schemes, most notably in Minnesota, where the Feeding our Future pandemic relief scam cost taxpayers hundreds of millions. Minnesota's Democratic governor, Tim Walz, announced in January that he would no longer seek reelection amid fallout from that scandal.
CBS News reached out to Governor Newsom's office. A spokesperson sent us a January 2026 statement, which reads in part, "Under Governor Newsom's administration, California has cracked down on hospice fraud, launched partnerships across state agencies, and the California Department of Justice has arrested criminals to hold them accountable."
Hospice fraud is a nationwide problem. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General reported in 2023 that suspected hospice fraud amounts totaled an estimated $198.1 million.
There are about 1,800 licensed hospices in Los Angeles County, California, which is more than six times the national average for the county's senior population.A CBS News investigation found about 42% (742 companies) still operate despite having multiple signs the state has outlined as indicators of fraud.
Nearly 500 hospices are operating within a 3-mile radius, the densest concentration of agencies in the county.
There are 137 hospices operating along Van Nuys Boulevard alone. More than half of them show signs the state has outlined as indicators of fraud.
89 companies are registered to a single building in Van Nuys.
72 have multiple signs the state says could indicate fraud. It's the most extreme case of hospice clustering CBS found.
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Humor Break
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You might have seen the amazing video of Iran welcoming its new Supreme Leader.
The actual Supreme Leader was not present. (Tousi TV says there are legitimate reports that he was hit during the early rounds of bombing and lost his leg and is currently in a coma.)
So to welcome the totally-alive New Supreme Leader, they brought out -- and this is not a joke, this happened -- a cardboard cut-out of a human silhouette with a photograph of the totally-alive Mojtada Khamenei's head on top of it.
In fairness: Iran was not the first country to do this.
Tousi noted that he could have sent along a video message or "appeared" via Skype. But he didn't. They just literally put a cheap standee at the front of the room and said "Bow to your new Supreme Leader, the Amazon box our new Yoga mat came in with a xerox glued to it."
And they did!
Weisenheimers are
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CNN's DEI Deer-in-the-Headlights Dim Bulb Abby Philip: Some People Threw a Bomb at the Muslim Mayor of New York City
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Antifa's credo -- and thus now the Antifa Media's credo -- is "DARVO." Every time they beat the shit out of someone in the street, they engage in DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
We saw this with Kyle Rittenhouse. We saw this with the Covington Kids.
And since the weekend, we have seen Antifa Media story after Antifa Media story have strongly, strongly implied that it was the "anti-Islam protesters" who threw the IEDs at the Muslim mayor.
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Filthy Despicable RINO Coward John Cornyn: On Second Thought, Now that GOP Voters Are Set to Boot My Defeat-Mechanism Ass Out of My Cushy Job, Maybe We Don't Need the Filibuster After All
—Disinformation Expert Ace
All it took to make this filthy RINO represent his constituents was a multimillion dollar effort to boot him out of office.
As you know, the disgraceful cucks in the Senate desperately want their cuck ally John Cornyn to keep his seat. They are pressuring Trump to endorse Cornyn.
Cornyn's primary challenger Ken Paxton says he will not leave the race, even if Trump does bend to John Thune and endorse the cuck John Cornyn.
However, he has offered a deal: He will leave the race and let Cornyn accept his last coronation if and only if the SAVE Act is passed before the primary runoff.
Not scheduled for a vote -- passed and put on the president's desk for his signature.
And suddenly this liberal dirtbag says he finally understands that Nostalgia RINOism won't stop the Democrats from undoing the filibuster themselves the next chance they get.
Something we've been saying for a decade.
If a man takes a swing at you and barely misses, that doesn't make him a pacifist -- it just means he has bad aim.Standing still and giving him a second free swing wouldn't be wise or honorable; it would be foolish.
In 2022, Chuck Schumer and 47 other Senate Democrats tried to change the rules of the US Senate and "nuke" the filibuster to ram through a left-wing takeover of election laws.
They were just barely stopped by two holdout Democrats who were promptly driven out of their party and into retirement.
In 2024, Schumer confirmed to reporters that Democrats mean to finish the job and kill the filibuster's 60-vote threshold the next time they take the majority.
For many years, I believed that if the US Senate scrapped the filibuster, Texas and our nation would stand to lose more than we would gain.
My fellow conservatives and I have proudly used the 60-vote threshold to protect the country from all sorts of bad ideas and dangerous policies.
But when the reality on the ground changes, leaders must take stock and adapt.
Today, Democrats are weaponizing the Senate's rules to block the SAVE America Act, defund the Department of Homeland Security and hurt the American people -- all to spite President Donald Trump.
But they say openly that if these same rules ever get in Democrats' way, they won't hesitate to rip them up.
A rule is only a rule if both sides follow it.
I believe that Democrats, with their votes and statements, have already dealt the filibuster a fatal blow: The Senate rules will change eventually, whether Republicans like it or not.
This leaves conservatives with two options.
We can either unilaterally disarm, or we can stand and fight.
We can let the Democrats keep obstructing today and then smash the rules the first chance they get, or we can act now and use the mandate the American people gave this president and this Congress to secure our elections, protect our homeland and bring back common sense.
The answer is clear: We need to stand, fight and win.
Democrats started this fight. Now Republicans should finish it.
When 48 Democrats nearly killed the filibuster, it was to pass radical legislation designed to increase election fraud.
They tried to ban voter ID requirements, to decriminalize ballot harvesting, and even to send taxpayer dollars into Democrats' own campaign funds.
The SAVE America Act, which I've cosponsored, would do the opposite.
It would make it easy to vote but harder to cheat, by requiring proof of citizenship and voter ID.
He also realizes that it's time to end the Democrat filibuster on funding DHS unilaterally:
But it's also urgent to overcome other aspects of the far left's obstruction.Americans are being forced to wait in line for three hours at airport security checkpoints because the Democrats are blocking funding for homeland security and immigration law enforcement.
Bad enough that Democrats' political tantrum is ruining travelers' days -- but at this time of hostilities with Iran, their financial siege of DHS is not just inconvenient, it's dangerous.
Hello! Happy Humpday!
I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.
Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
It is rare that I am left trying to discern meaning and motivation from a piece of press coverage. It is usually very simple to figure out. The press, as a rule, despises the West and this colors all coverage. Members of the press wear their opinions and attitudes as badges of honor, and their work product reflects it. The press usually doesn't go for sarcasm or subtlety. They spin, lie, misconstrue or ignore as they see fit to serve the agenda.
Sometimes, however, an article surfaces that is so absurd, so over-the-top and so preposterous that it leaves me torn between two opinions: that it is just yet another example of the press making it clear exactly who they are, or that it is unexpected sarcasm and satire, playing on its readers' expectations to see if anyone notices. It has been a long time since this happened, but it did this week. I am embarrassed to admit that I am stuck in that "in between" - and I am doubly embarrassed because the source of the trouble is in The Economist.
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The Morning Report — 3/11/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. We're into the twelfth day of military operations against the Iranian regime and while we seemingly have blown their navy out of the water, the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most strategic waterways in the world is where much of the action is now focused.
A projectile hit a cargo ship Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz, setting the vessel ablaze after the United States targeted Iranian minelaying vessels that could target the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center, run by the British military, said the vessel had been hit just north of Oman in the strait.
It said the crew was evacuating the ship.
Iran did not immediately claim the attack though it has been targeting ships in and around the strait, disrupting a waterway that sees a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded pass through it.
Along with lobbing missiles at neighboring nations, the intentional targeting of foreign flagged ships by Iran is likely an attempt to force external pressure by the rest of the world on President Trump to cease fire and call it quits. It's a race against time for the US and Israel to either destroy and/or degrade Iran's retaliatory/strike capabilities before they have a chance to use them or otherwise exhaust their stocks of these missiles and make them surrender. My concern is the Chi-Coms. They are desperate for and rely heavily on Iranian oil. If the Strait of Hormuz is cut off, how will they react to force it open. And in any case, a collapse of the Mullahocracy means loss of a strategic regional ally, assuming a Trump-approved government takes its place, which might also put a serious crimp in China's access to the oil it needs. All of that in my mind could perhaps push Xi to make a move on Taiwan.
Whatever one thinks about the President's attack on Iran, back here at home this report is a head-scratcher and frankly pissing me the hell off:
In a private meeting, James Blair, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, encouraged House Republicans to adjust how they discuss immigration. He suggested shifting away from talk of “mass deportations” and narrowing the administration’s efforts to deport only confirmed dangerous criminals.This guidance arises from worries that Democrats are effectively painting Trump’s immigration approach as excessively sweeping, despite President Donald J. Trump campaigning on an ambiguous promise to deport all illegal aliens. Blair reportedly shared these thoughts in a policy discussion at the yearly House Republican retreat held in Doral, Florida. . . The shift is drawing sharp criticism from many in the President’s MAGA base, some of whom were already unhappy with the administration’s embrace of neoconservative foreign policy by launching the ongoing war in Iran. “I voted for no new wars & mass deportations. Why are we stopping the mass deportations and starting a new war?” asked Caroline Sunshine, who acted as deputy communications director for the Trump 2024 campaign.
Regarding the attack on Iran, lest we forget that Iran via its terror proxies and its own capabilities has spilled rivers of blood and quite a bit of it American since Jimmy Carter helped the current regime take over 47 years ago, and since then they have been hell bent on bringing about armageddon — primarily via the acquisition and use of nuclear weapons — as the precursor for the arrival of the 12th Imam to usher in the internal age of Islam ruling the world.
"Death to America" is not merely a sweet little nothing you whisper in a Vassar co-ed's ear to get her to hop into the sack with you (Of course failing that, there's always rape in the name of decolonization!) This has been Iran's national motto and battle cry since 1979. President Trump is merely the first president in all that time to take them at their word and is doing what he can and must to prevent that from happening, unlike any of his predecessors in all that time, one in particular who actually shared that view. Of course I mean Barack Hussein Obama who did more to aid and abet the Iranian nuclear weapons program by giving them political/diplomatic cover/legitimacy and shoveling billions of dollars at them. Obama was the black Tucker Carlson of the Rosenbergs.
But I digress. Wow did I digress! As far as illegal aliens are concerned. Sorry, but all of them regardless of criminal record or lack thereof are a danger and threat to our safety, security and to societal cohesion in general.
To James Blair, I say, justify to me how it is in the best interest of this nation to allow anyone who came here illegally to remain here and benefit — and that is the perfect word to use — from being here at the cost to our fellow citizens, monetarily and otherwise. Awarding and encouraging criminal behavior is antithetical to the founding of this nation and to its moral and ethical underpinnings that are the basis or are supposed to be the basis of our society and government.
Sorry, this is an absolute non-starter for me. Every one of the millions, perhaps 44 million or more by now, foreigners here on our soil without our approval and permission must be removed. No ifs ands or buts. With that in mind, I give you this, your emetic of the day:
Rachel Zegler, the woke actress who played the woke Hispanic Snow White for the 2025 live action Disney movie recently addressed the tremendous backlash she received for her performance in the film, finally concluding with this sentiment: “I refuse to assimilate for anybody else’s comfort.”Oh, you don’t say. . .
. . . So Zegler doesn’t want to assimilate because she comes first—like every other foreigner living off the comforts and privileges America affords while actively working to destroy it.
And Zegler I am assuming is a legal immigrant! To me this is someone defecating on the grave of my dear mother of blessed memory, who survived Mauthausen, forced labor brigades and a death march and waiting for four years to arrive here and kissed the ground when she stepped on American soil. She refused to teach me her native tongue, Hungarian, because of what they did to her and her family in aiding and abetting the Nazis in virtually wiping out the second largest Jewish population in Europe. Fuck you, and vayr gehargit, Rachel Zegler.
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Daily Tech News 11 March 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Amazon has called an all-hands meeting of its engineering team to ask them to please stop destroying the company's site with AI slop. (Tom's Hardware)
The term "blast radius" is not one you want to hear being thrown about in reference to side-effects of code updates.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 10, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday night ONT. Very nice springtime weather in my neck of the woods today. How about you? Anything fun and exciting going on with anyone here tonight? Something on your mind? Let's hear it!
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Cat Chaos Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Another shot of the Griffith Observatory, LA
Brandon Yoshizawa
Baby learns his first word, "Baaaa."
Hedgehog cuddles her tiny little teddy bear. Very cute.
Huge dog begs for a hug.
Baby and golden retrievers just vibing with each other.
Giving a crow some water. I have tried to make friends with the local crows. They are uninterested.
Border collie vs. moped. I like how he spins in place to "rev up."
Cat mocks his owner's injury.
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Trump: I Will Sign No More Bills Until the Senate Cucks Pass the SAVE Act
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The cucks are the defeat mechanism of conservative governance. Whatever will advance the cause, they're against.
President Trump said Sunday he will refuse to sign any additional legislation until Congress passes the SAVE America Act, escalating pressure on lawmakers to move what he has repeatedly described as a cornerstone election integrity measure.Writing on Truth Social, Trump declared the legislation "must go to the front of the line," signaling that securing the bill's passage now takes priority over any other items on the legislative agenda.
The president also singled out election integrity activist Scott Presler for his advocacy, praising his recent appearance on Fox & Friends and urging lawmakers to use every available tool to get the measure across the finish line.
"Great Job by hard working Scott Pressler on Fox & Friends talking about using the Filibuster, or Talking Filibuster, in order to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, an 88% issue with ALL VOTERS," Trump wrote.
"It must be done immediately. It supersedes everything else. MUST GO TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE. I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION -- GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP."
Trump added that the legislation should also include limits on mail-in ballots and other cultural policy priorities he has championed, warning lawmakers plainly: "DO NOT FAIL!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP."
The SAVE America Act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, mandate voter identification, and direct states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls while coordinating voter registration databases with the Department of Homeland Security.
Trump has repeatedly framed the legislation as a defining political battle, telling Republicans that securing the measure is essential to protecting American elections.
According to a February 25--26 Harvard-Harris poll of 1,999 registered voters, the proposal enjoys broad support across the electorate.
The survey found 71 percent overall backing for the measure's core provisions, including proof-of-citizenship requirements and voter ID rules.
Support was strongest among Republicans at 91 percent, while 69 percent of independents and 50 percent of Democrats also said they support the reforms.
Trump has also injected the legislation into the developing Republican primary battle for the Texas Senate seat, privately telling Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Texas Sen. John Cornyn that he wants the SAVE America Act on his desk before issuing an endorsement in the race.
Trump wants Thune to require that any "filibuster" be a real filibuster, that is, a "talking filibuster" in which senators are actually required to, you know, filibuster by speaking for as long as they can to delay a vote. Not just voting to "filibuster." Which is what our old, lazy senators have permitted for decades, because they can't stand the rigors of an actual filibuster.
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Biden's Autopen Autocrats Spent Millions of Taxpayer Dollars to "Queer" Maps, to Make Maps More Gay
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They wanted to "queer map-making."
They also spent money on other gay shit of various natures.
A bizarre exchange on Capitol Hill last week put the spotlight back on how taxpayer dollars were spent under the Biden administration after a State Department official struggled to explain grants tied to diversity programs abroad -- including one she described as an effort to make certain maps "more gay."The moment unfolded during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing where Rep. Brian Mast pressed State Department Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers about several taxpayer-funded initiatives tied to DEI programs during the administration of Joe Biden.
"Can you tell me what is queering the map?" Mast asked, referring to a grant referenced in the State Department's public diplomacy spending.
"So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay," Rogers replied.
Mast immediately pushed back. "Literally? How do you make a map more gay? Or gay at all?" he asked.
Rogers conceded she couldn't explain it.
"I don't know," she said. "Since the age of cartography, we've had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren't gay enough."
She suggested the wording may have come from academic language around critical theory, noting that "sometimes people use 'queer' as a verb." Rogers added that the project may have involved maps related to Czechia and Slovakia, though she acknowledged she was unsure of the details.
"So maybe those countries asked for it," she said. "I doubt it, but I don't know."
The exchange drew visible disbelief from Mast.
The Florida Republican then began listing several other projects funded through similar grants, describing a series of diversity and inclusion initiatives sponsored by the State Department around the world.
Among them were programs focused on "non-binary and transfrancophones" and research into "linguistic attitudes and ideologies toward inclusive French" in Montreal, Canada.
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$100 Million Gender Studies Thesis Statement The Bride! Is One of the Worst Feminist "Movie" Disasters in History (and They've Almost All Been Disasters)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Howard Stern is a big ugly gassy idiot, but he did have a point when he talked about Spike Lee's overpoduced, overpromoted, and over-budgeted "college movies."
You know what makes a college movie? To borrow a word from Woody Allen, they're painfully didactic. They are all about Teaching the viewer. There should be some irony detected here -- people who just got out of their diapers fifteen years ago are now presuming to be wise teachers educating the rest of us -- but there's not, because college kids are largely idiots.
I know because I once was one. But don't feel bad, college students. Adults are largely idiots too.
And of course college students don't know any better -- their entire lives have consisted of nothing but sitting in class being lectured to, so of course when they try to dream up an "original" "story," the "story" consists of something at the head of a lecture hall lecturing people sitting in lecture-hall-stye seats.
All they know is sitting in class listening to someone spout wisdom at them. So of course that's what they think a "movie" ought to be.
No one wants to pay to see college student "movies." As ugly idiot Howard Stern correctly managed to discern, not even the black people Spike Lee intended to lecture showed up for his black college student films. They all went to see Steven Seagall karate movies. Only terminally white-guilted progressive idiots gave to their Woke Church and put alms in the basket at Spike Lee student films.
No one wants to be lectured at, especially not by someone who is transparently a fucking MORON, and honestly, it's only people who are fucking morons who would imagine that people are going to pay money to see a lecture from a fucking moron.
The Bride! -- exclamation point part of the official title, in case you weren't sure this student film was by someone with a college sophomore Look At Me, I'm Quirky and Deep mentality -- was dreamed up when Ugly Weird-Looking Hag Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal realized that when Victor Von Frankenstein created the bride of Frankenstein in the 1930s sequel, he had never bothered to seek consent from the dead body he was reanimating.
This is an observation which blends my two favorite things, retard-level obviousness and retard-level obsession with Feminism 101 ideology.
Ugly Weird-Looking Hag Actress Maggie Gyllenhall, having never advanced past a 19-year-old stage of development, was smitten with her brilliant idea of making a $100 million movie to correct and critique the 1930s classic for its complete refusal to address the complex and nuanced question of consent in animating dead bodies in a fantasy horror movie, and because this was pitched during after the death of George Floyd, when the nation came together to say, once and for all, that Black Lives Matter, and, even more important than Black Lives Mattering, pampered and entitled white women ought to have All The Jobs, Warner Bros. bankrolled this student film.
The movie is so bad that even woke feminist reviewers are trashing it as embarrassing. All of these movies are embarrassing, but usually they Make Pretend and give these bombs positive reviews. But this is so embarrassing it casts genuine doubt on women's competency to even be film-makers, and so even the feminist wokies are forced to denounce it as a matter of self-protection and to make sure that All the Jobs will continue going to unqualified nepo-baby AWFULs.
John Sexton has a post about it, which I'll quote from.
The WSJ's review is harsh:
A clunky framing device, filmed in black and white in an otherwise color picture and recurring throughout the film, features the spirit of "Frankenstein" author Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley), who speaks to us from beyond the grave. Amid much vamping and cackling, she tells us that since her death she has been summoning her strength to the point that now, in 1936, she has gained the ability to control the mind of a woman named Ida (also played by Ms. Buckley), who is working undercover as a floozy for the police gathering evidence against a Chicago mobster. With Shelley remote-controlling her brain, Ida turns into a crazed party girl, dies falling down stairs, and goes to her grave. Temporarily...Ida, after getting a little jump-start in the Euphronious lab, returns to life as the unnamed mate for "Frank," as she calls him. Spitting up black phlegm and shouting out strings of word-association gibberish, Ms. Buckley quickly becomes the centerpiece of the movie, or rather its central headache. Her overacting meets Ms. Gyllenhaal's over-filmmaking like the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.
The director would like to be credited (wouldn't everyone?) with creating a punk-rock update of a classic. What she presents is more like the world's campiest cabaret act, with the Bride as a mashup of Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis and maybe Natasha Lyonne. Ms. Buckley, talking a mile a minute, flouncing through the sets, and switching accents like a Robin Williams standup routine minus the jokes, is meant to be the ultra-liberated spirit of Woman, a canny chaos agent who doesn't give a flying fig about patriarchal expectations. She even finds a reason to shout "Me too!" a couple of times.
Variety admits that the movie has been "completely rejected" by audiences:
It was a complete rejection by moviegoers around the world this weekend as Maggie Gyllenhaal's $80 million bride of Frankenstein monster movie The Bride! opened to $13.6 million...Industry sources, not Warners, believe the loss on The Bride! could approach $90M in its first cycle after home entertainment downstream. Note, it will be a while before the ultimate red ink is realized. Warner Bros declined comment about the movie's P&L, which includes $65M in worldwide P&A.
The movie cost $80 million, and is said to have cost another $20 million on that for movie-saving reshoots, which did not save the movie. On top of that, they spent $65 million in Prints and Advertising (P&A), and since most movies are now very cheaply delivered digitally, not in the form of expensive reels of film, I have to imagine that 98% of the P&A budget is just advertising.
And, as I can't point out enough, theaters take about 50% of the ticket price, so the tiny takings are halved.
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David French: The Transing-Children-Obsessed, Abortion-Promoting James Talarico Is a Truer Christian Than All Fifty Million Christians Who Voted for Trump
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Look, watching your wife's vagine getting blown out every night like a sasquatch's old gym sock by a parade of homeless male prostitutes has got to take a toll on your soul.
Bonus points for making occasional insincere references to Jesus.
Sixteen months after Kamala Harris cackled her way into a loss to President Trump, the Democratic Party seems to have realized its candidates need an image makeover to get voters to forget what their team actually believes.The name of the game is acting normal and talking like a moderate.
For Democrats, that's a stretch.
James Talarico of Texas is their bright new "moderate" hope.
He won a US Senate primary election this week largely by touting his Christianity, being respectful to his opponents, and generally presenting himself as the boy-next-door counterweight to his excitable opponent, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas).
Look at this sane man, declared the media.
Time magazine touted his "authenticity" and gushed, "It's populism and piety, the proletariat and the Pharisees all rolled into a Texas-sized operation."
The Washington Post highlighted how Talarico was "leaning in to his Christian faith in political debate, an atypical approach for a Democrat."
The New Yorker's soft-focus photo accompanied a fawning piece that described Talarico as looking "like he'd just finished his paper route and was eager to shovel the church's walk."
It did the trick for the Lone Star State's Democrats.
But the moderate façade may already be crumbling.
In 2020, Talarico was tweeting about the "virus" of "racism."
Who had it? White people, he said -- all of them.
"White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus," he posted. "But we spread it wherever we go -- through our words, our actions, and our systems.
"We don't have to be showing symptoms -- like a white hood or a Confederate flag -- to be contagious."
This is what passes for "normal" among Democrats?
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In 2021, Talarico, a member of the state legislature, argued in favor of a bill that would allow biological boys to play in girls' sports.
"God is nonbinary," he declared on the state House floor.
"The thing I want us all to be aware of is ... modern science obviously recognizes there are many more than two biological sexes," he went on. "In fact, there are six."
Believing in six (or more!) genders is insane enough to most of us -- but six biological sexes?
The mind reels.
That same year, Talarico very proudly announced that his office was the first to put pronouns on staffers' business cards.
Obviously, the Satanic Pharisee David French is all-in on Talarico.
Chris Bray on the Last Temptation of David French, for The Federalist:
David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico
James Talarico's fake tent show preacher act has been a joke since the moment he began it, and every living animal with a central nervous system is aware of this. For that matter, the geranium on your front porch may be aware of it. Pro-abortion, pro-trans, pro-trans-abortion for all six genders, Talarico's much-derided sermonizing on the far-left Jesus he made up somewhere inside his cotton candy mind is ludicrous, appalling, embarrassing, and give me a minute while I load up all the pejoratives I can fit on this forklift. See, if you haven't already, this discussion at First Things: "James Talarico's Backward Christianity." No one is dumb enough to buy this stuff.Okay, almost no one.
In a moment we should have seen coming, New York Times columnist David French has just gushed out a shameless celebration of Talarico's insane nonsense, every word of which should qualify the worst op-ed prostitute in America for urgent psychiatric intervention. Here's a whole paragraph: "Or, to put it another way, Talarico is one of the few openly Christian politicians in the United States who acts like a Christian, and by acting like a Christian he reveals a profound contrast with so many members of the MAGA Christian movement that's dominated American political life for 10 years."
A challenge: Find the evidence French offers for the claim that Talarico "acts like a Christian." He cites some speeches, but speeches aren't actions. How, in David French's conception, does James Talarico live like a Christian, by his actions, and what does he think that means? Hang onto this point, because we'll be coming back to it.
But then go on to the characterization of MAGA as a Christian movement, full stop, as if no one would argue. Quick: Name the top three speeches Donald Trump has made in which he used the Bible as an argument for his political program. Discuss, in detail, the specific policy influence of Trump's pastor, who you should be able to name if we're talking about a Christian nationalist ideologue. Or, as a shortcut, just show the evidence French has ever presented to prove that MAGA is primarily theological, and that Trump's first instinct is to steer by religious faith. French doesn't argue this, because he can't. He just says it. It's a noise he makes, endlessly. It has no meaning of any kind.
David French invented the Christian nationalist MAGA argument into being, like Christopher Steele with a pee tape, and now he acts like his strawman is real. Donald Trump is a secular real estate developer who became a secular television figure who became a secular politician who treats Christians like he doesn't hate them. This is supposed to be "Christian nationalism."
Pointing at Talarico's supposed decency, French writes approvingly that the Texas politician "criticized the evangelical focus on abortion and homosexuality in politics," which Talarico describes as "two issues that Jesus never talked about." See, true Christians like Talarico know that Jesus wants you to have a lot of gay sex and abortions, because he never mentioned it, and Christianity has no substance except for being nice and not judging people for their personal choices. You can do whatever you want, as long as you're nice.
Then French, having celebrated Talarico for the argument that Jesus wants you to be nice and have a lot of gay sex and abortions, approvingly offers up this quote from Talarico: "I am tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I'm tired of being told to hate my neighbor. It's been more than 10 years of this kind of politics. Politics as blood sport, politics as trolling and owning, politics as total war. It tears families apart. It ends friendships, and it leaves us all feeling terrible all the time."
Don't judge, don't hate, don't troll, don't be engaged in politics as blood sport. Be kind, decent, restrained, hesitant to judge. This, French says, is the mark of decency in politics. Speak well of others. Watch your tongue.
And then, very next step, he savages Ken Paxton. With a tone-deafness you can't exaggerate, having set up Talarico's decency and true expression of Christianity as niceness and a steadfast refusal to judge or be pitted against your neighbor, French contrasts nice Christian James Talarico to mean right-winger Ken Paxton by writing that Paxton "is an admitted adulterer, which is something that used to matter to conservative Christians."
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It Was a Beautiful Day in Ontario for Some Freedom Fighters to Open Fire on US Consulate Provocateurs
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I assume that will be CNN's take after they stop flicking their beans.
Gunmen open fire on U.S. consulate in Canada, none injured: PoliceAuthorities have not identified a motive, though the incident comes amid the ongoing U.S. war against Iran and President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts, both of which have seen violent opposition within the U.S.
It's so weird that non-LE people can immediately identify a motive whereas LE "professionals" and "experts" are perpetually confused.
Police in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday announced that gunmen had fired on the U.S. consulate, resulting in no injuries.The suspects reportedly drove a white Honda CR-V, stopped in front of the building, and fired multiple rounds, before returning to the vehicle and fleeing the scene. None were injured in the incident.
Authorities have not identified a motive, though the incident comes amid the ongoing U.S. war against Iran and President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts, both of which have seen violent opposition within the U.S.
On Monday, for instance, a counter protester went viral after he threw an explosive device at a protest organized by Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang, though it failed to detonate. Authorities are investigating a possible terrorist connection.
Although Canadian officials could not possibly name the motive we all instantly understood, they are increasing security at US and Israeli diplomatic buildings.
Just a coincidence, I'm sure. Done out of an "abundance of caution."
Canada is increasing security around U.S. and Israeli diplomatic buildings after a shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto, a Canadian police official said on Tuesday.Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather said the consulate shooting is being investigated as a "national security incident," although it's too early to determine the motive.
