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Iran once again pretended to "talk" while conceding nothing. The USS Ford is now in place for a strike.
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Al Arabiya: The U.S. State Department has evacuated non-essential staff from the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
AFP: The United States authorised the departure of non-emergency embassy staff from Israel on Friday, as it threatened strikes on Iran and pressed its biggest military build-up in the Middle East in decades.
Ben Rhodes, whom you undoubtedly know as Barack Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor, once bragged that he persuaded the media by gaslighting them and creating an echo chamber. Since establishment Washington, rightly, opposed the Iran deal that he and Obama so desperately wanted, they invented a new establishment and sold it to America.
As Malley and representatives of the State Department, including Wendy Sherman and Secretary of State John Kerry, engaged in formal negotiations with the Iranians, to ratify details of a framework that had already been agreed upon, Rhodes's war room did its work on Capitol Hill and with reporters. In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. "We created an echo chamber," he admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly minted experts cheerleading for the deal. "They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say."
When I suggested that all this dark metafictional play seemed a bit removed from rational debate over America's future role in the world, Rhodes nodded. "In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this," he said. "We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked." He is proud of the way he sold the Iran deal. "We drove them crazy," he said of the deal's opponents.
Ah, the "expert" class. We know them well.
Ben Rhodes helped pioneer and refine the "echo chamber" strategy Obama used so well--the creation of what I call The Narrative(TM). Ben is part of the Obama team's Crooked Media, which is known for its shows Pod Save America and Pod Save the World. Crooked Media was founded by the worst of the worst: Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, and Jon Lovett, all part of Obama's communications and foreign policy/intelligence teams.
Below, they praise Tucker and encourage all other media figures to follow him in his Iran propaganda. Tommy Vietor -- "That was like a 100 years ago, man" -- says he's a Text Buddy with Tucker Carlson, The True Conservative.
Pod Save America's Ben Rhodes & Tommy Vietor gush about nazi promoter Tucker Carlson. PSA's @jonlovett / Vietor have pushed hard for ppl to back Platner (nazi tat guy) in Maine.
They say they wish more media would act like Tucker. Vietor admits he's text buddies w/ Tucker btw. pic.twitter.com/SFtcyu8uXz
Tucker Carlson got sick of being called antisemitic by the perfidious Satanic Jews who drink Christian babies' blood, and so he reached out to one of these Jewish Mind-Controllers to ask him how he could convince the Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy to stop calling him antisemitic.
This particular Perfidious Jew, Yoram Hazony, told him he could start by ending his constant claims that Jews are engaged in a constant aggression against Christians and start all the wars in the world for no reason at all except to spread the Nefarious Jew Conspiracy.
Tucker Carlson then said, "Short of that, I mean."
Or words to that effect. Tucker did not want to stop accusing Jews of conspiring against Christians, he just wanted the Jews to stop noticing he can't stop accusing Jews of conspiring against Christians.
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My Contacts With Tucker Carlson About Anti-Semitism on His Show
A few weeks ago, a mutual friend asked me if I'd be willing to speak to Tucker Carlson off the record. I agreed and Tucker called me three weeks ago to talk. I continued texting with him for eight days after that.
But this past Friday, Tucker released a video in which he reported to the public on his off-the-record conversations with me. Inaccurately, of course. So here's some additional information on my short-lived discussions with Tucker Carlson about anti-Semitism on his show.
Tucker called me on Sunday, February 1. We talked for 1 hour and 23 minutes. Here's what I noted down on my desk calendar right after the call:
"8 am Tucker Carlson 83-minute call wanting to know how to end the charges of anti-Semitism against him. Trump told him to end it on Jan 11."
As you can see, Tucker explained that he was calling because he had come under pressure from President Trump at his famous meeting at the White House on January 11. He told me the administration wants him to find a way to stop his high-profile fights with Jews and Zionist Christians. Tucker told me that he wanted my advice on "practical steps" he could take to change the impression that he is an anti-Semite.
I thought he was asking me to host him in Israel. So I explained to him that I can't do much to help him, because just about every Jew I know believes he's been waging a savage campaign against Jews, Judaism, and Israel for the past 18 months--and that most think his aim is to drive Jews and Zionist Christians out of the Trump coalition and out of the Republican party. I said that even a year ago, quite a few Jews would probably have jumped at the chance to appear on the Tucker Carlson Show and to present an alternative point of view, but that this looked impossible to me now--and that it would stay that way as long as there's no change of direction on his part.
Tucker wanted me to explain to him why anyone would think he was an anti-Semite. I answered that question for more than an hour, giving him a series of examples of statements he and his guests had made on his show that seemed completely unhinged and motivated by a desire to slander Jews, Judaism, Israel, and Zionist Christians in order to do as much harm as possible. He kept expressing amazement that anyone would think he was an anti-Semite, and I kept giving him more examples of why I thought any fair observer would reach that conclusion if they were familiar with the relevant conversations he had hosted on his program.
The conversation ended with my agreeing to continue the discussion. I didn't feel he was open to dialing down the hostility toward Jews, Judaism, Israel, and Zionist Christians constantly being expressed on his program. But I also didn't want to close the door to the possibility that the pushback from the administration would eventually get him to make a change. (Anyone who has been following Tucker's program in the weeks since January 11 knows that, so far, there hasn't been any such change.)
On February 3, Tucker wrote to me asking if he could speak at the first Israeli National Conservatism Conference (NatCon), which is scheduled to be held in Jerusalem on June 8-10. I was taken aback that he would ask for something like that, given the content of our conversation two days earlier. But I did my best to draft a reply that would reinforce my previous description of what a great many Jews, Israelis, and Zionist Christians think of Tucker right now. Here's what I wrote in response to his request to speak at the first NatCon conference in Israel:
"Tucker, I appreciate the offer. But I need people to show up at this event. Realistically, Jews and Zionist Christians are not going to share a platform with you or come to hear you under the current circumstances. I'm just speaking descriptively about the situation: Much of the lineup will revolt if you join the program and that story will blow back on you [and other public figures] in addition to blowing up the conference. If you want to change this situation, there are things you can do unilaterally to shift the dynamic and I think that's the way to move forward."
I thought Tucker had finally gotten the message that he should stop asking me for favors, and instead consider how he could make unilateral changes that would help people get past the impression that he is one of the leading Jew-haters of our generation.
But then on February 9, he wrote to ask me if I would set up a meeting for him with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I'm not sure why he thought I was the right address for that request. But I knew very well that if someone were going to contact the Prime Minister's office with such a misguided idea, it wasn't going to be me. Here's what I wrote in reply to his request that I arrange a meeting for him with Bibi:
"I don't see how that could happen. It doesn't serve any interest I'm aware of. It could only damage him."
This was a perfectly honest answer, and Tucker could have thanked me for giving him my honest assessment of the situation he has created. But Tucker wasn't happy with it, and he typed an agitated little speech into his phone to indicate that our conversation had come to an end.
On February 20, Tucker released a peevish summary of the contacts between us as part of a wild video in which he also suggested that Israel might be trying to kill him and his family.
That's the story. I'll just add one comment. Most of what I do in public life is building coalitions. That means I talk to a lot of people who don't agree with me on all sorts of things, and sometimes that means meeting with people who don't like me very much. I have these in-person, off-the-record conversations because often people turn out to be quite different in private. Sometimes, I've just misunderstood who they are from their public appearances. Sometimes, I've understood very well who they are, but it turns out they are willing to explore the possibility of making a change. And also: Even when nothing else comes of it, I learn a tremendous amount about people from these private conversations.
In Tucker's case, the private person turns out to be exactly who we've been seeing in public. As of now, I'm not seeing any sign that he is willing to play ball with the mainstream nationalist camp in the Republican party, much less that he has any regrets about who and what he has become since leaving Fox News in 2023. Whatever his motives for turning his podcast into what seems to be a circus of anti-Jewish messaging, right now that project is clearly more important to him than helping the administration keep its coalition together so it can govern effectively and win elections in 2026 and 2028.
This is just like calling up the NAACP and asking them for a free "N-Word Pass," because sometimes, you know, n****r is just the mot juste.
Below, Tucker Carlson, who is not antisemitic, wants you to know that he is no coward and was not afraid to step into Israel proper, instead remaining in "Zone A" which I guess is some kind of zone which Israel does not have sovereign control over.
In explaining that he's not a coward who is afraid of Israel, he says that he asked the US to tell Israel the exact plane he was on, because this Non-Antisemitic Non-Coward really believed that Israel, which is "fighting a war with seven different countries, was plotting to shoot his airplane out of the sky and then claim they thought it was an "Iranian Drone," and he wanted Huckabee to tell them specifically he was on this plane so that Israel could not murder him by anti-aircraft missile and then pretend they didn't know.
He cites the totally non-antisemitic USS Liberty trope to show that Pefidious Jews love doing that kind of thing. (He continues insisting Israel knew it was an American ship, even though the NSA has released intercepted radio transmissions showing that Israel had identified the ship as Egyptian.)
See, he's not antisemitic at all, he totally isn't deranged with antisemitic conspiracy theories and paranoia.
And also: Not a coward. Definitely, N O T a coward.
Tucker is not afraid.
Not afraid of Israel or in Israel.
He just wants to make sure the IDF doesn't "mistake" his private jet "for an Iranian drone or something."
And, um, because of (false) stuff about the 1967 USS Liberty bombing.
THE MORNING RANT: Following SNAP Restrictions on Junk Food, Pepsico Cuts Prices Due to Softening Consumer Demand
—Buck Throckmorton
Some basic economic truths are playing out in the junk food market – the market where Pepsico engages in commerce. Much of its revenue has been in the form of redistributed taxpayer money, which passes through government to the recipients of what was once called “food stamps.” The recipients of SNAP benefits (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) have historically spent considerable amounts of their federal food assistance on Doritos, Mountain Dew, and other low-nutrition foods sold by Pepsico.
But thanks to President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., that is changing, as documented in a piece of mine from early January (“Thanks to MAHA, Several States Just Implemented Bans on Using SNAP Benefits for Junk Food”) in which I wrote “the USDA granted individual states the authority to implement waivers to federal regulations, thus allowing state-level determination of food products which may be considered ineligible for federal SNAP benefits.”
It didn’t take long for Pepsico to feel the pinch. By early February, the company was finding itself needing to cut prices in response to slowing sales.
But a few months earlier when SNAP recipients were still spending government money, Pepsico was able to steadily increase prices. Now that those same consumers are forced to buy Fritos and Cheetos using their own money, they have suddenly become price conscious.
In the media reports about Pepsico dropping prices, there is no discussion about the lost SNAP business. There is, however, an acknowledgement that the company had been very aggressive in raising prices at a rate well in excess of inflation. Suddenly, Pepsico finds itself having to cut prices by a rather significant 15%.
PepsiCo is lowering the prices of its Cheetos, Doritos, Lays and other snack brands by up to 15%, saying it wants to bring "relief" to consumers facing an affordability crunch.
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The move comes amid a pullback in demand from consumers after PepsiCo instituted a series of price hikes. In the fourth quarter, PepsiCo increased beverage prices by 7% in North America, while its snack prices were up 1%.
So Pepsico raised prices in the fourth quarter (October, November, December) and then in January came “a pullback in demand from consumers.” Coincidentally, this pullback in demand occurred exactly when the SNAP restrictions commenced.
As Lauren Chen stated on Twitter/X, “SNAP no longer subsidizes buying junk food, and now the price of junk food is dropping. Could you imagine if we applied this principle to college? Or healthcare?” Yep, everything we subsidize with taxpayer money has the effect of driving the price of that product higher.
PepsiCo spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep junk food eligible for food stamps. Then RFK got 18 states to ban SNAP purchases of soda, candy, and processed snacks.
Within a week, PepsiCo cut Doritos, Lay's, and Tostitos prices by up to 15%. The CEO blamed "affordability." But the timing tells the real story.
• Frito-SNAP is a $100 billion-a-year program. According to the USDA: 20 cents of every SNAP dollar goes to junk food.
• Frito-Lay products appeared in 7.2% of all SNAP shopping trips.
The moment the government stopped subsidizing demand, PepsiCo had to compete on price. No regulation. No price caps. No antitrust probe. The subsidy disappeared, and the market corrected overnight.
Now consider that this same pattern — government money in, prices up — plays out in college tuition, healthcare, defense, and every other industry with a guaranteed government buyer.
Federal spending is nearly a quarter of the entire economy. All of it inflating prices. All of it eroding your purchasing power.
When corporations and their executives made a hard-left political turn in the early 21st century it puzzled me, because the Democrats they allied with were not the party of free enterprise. But I’ve since come to realize that much of corporate America now rejects free enterprise too, and instead wants government to act on its behalf in redistributing money from taxpayers to corporations.
Be it SNAP benefits for junk food or EV credits for auto manufacturers, the Trump administration is putting an end to the corporatist business model and its parasitic attachment to taxpayer wallets.
With “affordability” such a visible political issue, and with the Pepsico case-study showing how consumer prices can be reduced, Republicans need to aggressively focus on cutting the government subsidies that result in higher consumer prices.
The legacy media, which habitually twists weather-related news into climate catastrophism, has been extraordinarily dishonest in its coverage of these lost beach houses, repeatedly stating that they were consumed by rising sea levels, when that is completely untrue. The houses were lost due to the impermanent sand upon which they were built.
This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest piece at The American Spectator addresses the dishonest reporting of beach houses lost to the ocean in the Outer Banks. The cause is shifting sands of a barrier island in motion, not "rising sea levels."https://t.co/E7dUcYRTqZ
A Somali driver caught barreling an “80-ton truck” the wrong way down a Missouri highway failed an English proficiency test — and wasn’t able to read road signs, authorities said.
The trucker was filmed driving in the northbound lanes on Highway 61 near Troy, about 55 miles outside of St. Louis, at 8 a.m. on Wednesday before finally crossing over and heading the right way, terrifying video shared by US Transportation Security Sean Duffy on X shows.
“We have learned that a truck driver with a Minnesota CDL who couldn’t read basic road signs spent MILES driving the wrong way in an 80 TON truck!” Duffy wrote on Wednesday.
Duffy confirmed that the “dangerous trucker is now out of service. . .
Authorities said the driver had a valid commercial driver’s license and exhibited no signs of impairment or medical issues.
However, during the traffic stop, police said that the “driver was unable to complete the English proficiency test,” Sgt. Dallas Thompson told the outlet.
“In Missouri, they have to be able to understand English, take the test in English, and pass the road sign test here,” Thompson said, adding that state and federal regulations mandate English proficiency for commercial drivers.
If this story neither shocks nor surprises you, seek help because you have either been in a coma for several years or you're a Democrat. That said, I suppose if I wanted to put a positive spin on this story, given the fact that at a minimum, that we know of, $9 billion dollars has been stolen/swindled goniffed from the Minnesota state treasury and US federal treasury by the Somalian immigrant (legal and otherwise) populace of that state and who knows how many untold billions more from other foreigner/immigrant communitiess and native-born amoral Americans from coast to coast whose concept of the American dream is grifting other people's money — and now the positive spin: at least this illiterate Somali maniac somehow felt compelled to want to actually hold down a job and EARN an honest paycheck!
Meh, then again I'm sure some of you are thinking, as I now am, that the poor sap was likely duped, swindled and/or otherwise coerced into obtaining that CDL lest he be ratted out to ICE and be deported. If that was the case then he really was a chump considering God knows how many thousands of his fellow countrymen and other foreigners are raking it in hand over fist via the aforementioned welfare swindling. But being preyed upon by some of your own is part and parcel of dog-eat-dog third world societies and is nothing new, sadly, to the immigrant experience in America.
Pakistan bombed Taliban government forces in Afghanistan’s major cities overnight, the first time it has directly targeted its former allies, and described the situation as “open war,” raising tensions in a volatile, nuclear-armed region.
The Pakistani strikes hit the capital Kabul and the city of Kandahar, where Taliban leaders are based. It was the first time Islamabad has attacked the Taliban rather than militants allegedly backed by them, a stark rupture in ties between the Islamic neighbors.
Security sources in Pakistan said the strikes involved air-to-ground missile attacks on Taliban military offices and posts in Kabul, Kandahar as well as Paktia province. . .
There were ground clashes in multiple sectors along the border between the Islamic nations.
The Taliban said it launched what it described as retaliatory attacks on Pakistani military installations.
Both sides reported heavy losses, issuing sharply differing figures that Reuters could not independently verify.
“Our cup of patience has overflowed. Now it is open war between us and you (Afghanistan),” Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said on Friday.
The strikes threaten to unleash a protracted conflict along the 1,615-mile frontier with relations between Kabul and Islamabad shattered by a long-running dispute over Pakistan’s accusation that Afghanistan harbors militants carrying out attacks across the border.
The Taliban have denied the charge and said Pakistan’s security is an internal problem.
A brouhaha ensued at Tuesday’s Wylie Independent School District school board meeting in Texas, when dozens of attendees demanded answers about how an outside group called “WHY ISLAM” which that had nothing to do with the school was able not only to enter the school, but to “set up a table on campus during school hours earlier this month without district approval.” According to CBS News, “in a viral video, the president of the school’s Republican Club describes what he saw:
They were giving out hijabs to girls throughout the high school, and they were giving our Qurans, and they also had pamphlets about Sharia law.
If I have an alternate universe Muslim doppelgänger, he just wrote Pass the Shawarma!
Oy gevalt . . .
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CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
“What in God’s name was the Fed and some of your other agencies thinking when you allowed banks to debank customers for reputational risk? Are you kidding me? Why did you allow that to happen?” a visibly angry Kennedy asked Bowman. “Because you didn’t like their politics or you didn’t like the products they made.” John Kennedy Visibly Irked As He Grills Witness Over Why Agency Allowed Debanking Of Conservatives
“This fraud is weaponized … often by foreign nationals,” said Mehmet Oz, also known as Dr. Oz, who runs President Donald Trump’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). “We can’t allow it to continue,” he said as he described how migrants steal government funds intended to supply medical devices, such as wheelchairs, to sick Americans. Dr. Oz: Cuban Migrants Escape to Havana with Millions in Stolen Medicare Cash
Judge Kollar-Kotelly has been one of several District Court judges enabling Democrat lawfare efforts to hinder President Donald J. Trump’s agenda. Last April, the judge blocked part of an election integrity Executive Order issued by President Trump requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. Judge Rules IRS Illegally Shared Taxpayer Data 43,000 Times.
Through scholarly work and online educational content, Samaan peacefully discussed religious issues and responded to anti-Christian sentiment. These are all activities protected under international human rights law. Yet on January 3, Samaan was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment with hard labor. He was also assaulted by other detainees. Egypt Sentences Christian Scholar to Five Years’ Imprisonment with Hard Labor
According to NBC News, at least six FBI agents involved in the August 2022 search were fired at Patel’s direction, citing six individuals familiar with the matter. Three of those sources said at least ten employees overall were dismissed, including support staff, agents, and supervisors. The FBI did not immediately respond to NBC’s request for comment. Report: Patel Removes Multiple FBI Employees Connected to Trump Mar-a-Lago Investigation
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Energy Secretary Chris Wright explained to the Daily Caller why the Trump administration is in favor of building data centers in the United States, as concerns grow about their presence in the country.Americans seem conflicted about the growing presence of AI and data centers across the country, though in some areas of the country the issue is proving to cause a stir. Wright told the Caller that the administration prefers data centers be built in America over other competitive countries like China. EXCLUSIVE: Chris Wright Makes Case For AI Data Centers In America
The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage this week was 5.98 percent, the first time the average rate has dropped into the five percent range in nearly three years, Freddie Mac reported Thursday. Mortgage Rates Fall Below 6% For First Time Since 2022
The president said that the plan would be available for the “forgotten American workers, great people, the people that built our country, access to the same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker.” Trump Savings Plan for Working Americans a Smash Hit with Swing Voters
Charles Murray: When Democrats complain about the cost of living in New York do they never wonder whether their policies haven’t caused the problem? . . There are some disasters even easier to foresee than a severe weather warning. And these man-made disasters take an awful lot longer to clean up. The real affordability crisis is in the cities where Democrats rule
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The teens allegedly shot Kevin Cooper on Nov. 1, 2025, in his home, police said. Cooper’s brother alleges that the teens knocked on the door and identified themselves as police officers before they broke into the residence, according to KOIN. Cooper rushed to protect his 4-year-old grandson at the time of the shooting, his brother said. Five Teens Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Oregon Minister Who Died Protecting His Family
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The film appears to be a major effort by a huge number of Hollywood A-listers, including Paul Rudd, Evan Peters, Amy Ryan, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany, and Jason Clarke for a film billed as a “darkly comic drama” about global warming. It will be produced by Sony Pictures Classics with Tom McCarthy to direct, Deadline reported. Leftist Billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs Backing Star-Studded Movie About Climate Change
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Parents need to recognize that government school systems, including teachers’ associations, do not have the best interests of their children as their focus. Teachers Unions and 'ICE Out' Day
The position in "Latinx Studies" is housed in Harvard’s "Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights." The faculty chair of that committee is herself a lecturer, not a tenured professor. That runs counter to the recommendation of Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias, which called for uniform standards across the university’s academic programs, such as "requiring a faculty director, who is a responsible tenured member of the ladder faculty, to oversee all activities." Harvard Bends Hiring Freeze for Lecturer in 'Latinx Studies' and Professor of Podcasting
Tillis’ resolution, which he submitted to the Senate earlier this month, allowed the “use of the atrium in the Philip A. Hart Senate office building for a Bipawtisan Doggi Gras Pawrade” on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The resolution passed by unanimous consent. (Grifting Oleaginous Parasites - jjs) Senate GOP Finds Time To Pass Thom Tillis’ Dog Parade But Not The SAVE Act
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
“I mean, now it’s, you know, the constant kinds of yelling and screaming and, and, and now holding up signs and for doing all these things, I, I don’t think, I don’t care if it’s a Republican or Democrat, it’s a president, just don’t do that, don’t do that,” Fetterman told “America’s Newsroom” co-host Bill Hemmer. John Fetterman Has Message For Fellow Democrats Who Made Scene At SOTU
It falls short of the ordered departure instituted this week for some personnel at the US Embassy in Beirut. The US has built up one of its biggest military deployments in the Middle East as it negotiates with Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme. . . Iran has threatened to strike American bases in the region if it is attacked, and an escalation could also draw in Israel. US allows some embassy staff to leave Israel, citing safety risks
. . .raising tensions in a volatile, nuclear-armed region. The Pakistani strikes hit the capital Kabul and the city of Kandahar, where Taliban leaders are based. It was the first time Islamabad has attacked the Taliban rather than militants allegedly backed by them, a stark rupture in ties between the Islamic neighbors. Pakistan bombs Taliban targets in Afghan cities, minister calls it ‘open war’
If you're thinking such a massive theft involved a team of hackers, years of planning involving a Stuxnet-like virus, or even physical access to Mexican government computer systems — think again. The almost unprecedented hack was done by just one guy. Using Anthropic's Claude AI, despite all of Anthropic's safeguards against something exactly like this. So Hackers Just Stole Mexico's Tax and Voter Rolls and You'll Never Guess How
Americans are using more and more medical care, but the need to pay for it all is a drag on employment in other sectors. Why Health-care Jobs Are on the Rise
“The present system of dyslexia diagnosis is scientifically flawed. . .When it comes to dyslexia diagnosis, this expectation is misplaced. . .Such assertions have no basis in the scientific literature. . .Using this approach, a diagnosis of dyslexia would no longer be necessary.” The Dyslexia Myth
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The research team analysed the chemical makeup of a type of lunar rock – known as the Mare basalts – and found a new correlation between their titanium content and how strongly magnetised they are. Every lunar sample which had recorded a strong magnetic field also contained large amounts of titanium – and the samples containing less than 6 wt.% titanium were all associated with a weak magnetic field. New analysis suggests Moon’s magnetic field shifted multiple times from weak to strong to weak
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
A Thursday statement released by Netflix corporate stated, “Netflix, Inc. today announced that it has declined to raise its offer for Warner Bros.” Scrutiny from the Department of Justice and allegations of antitrust violations apparently contributed to killing the deal, though that was not specifically what the Netflix executives admitted. Now perhaps the federal government can engage in some more antitrust busting with other gargantuan monopolies like Google and Apple. Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal Is Off
The decision by Vanguard to settle the case likely signals significant trouble for the asset management company’s former co-defendants, and, according to Paxton’s office, could mark a final ruling that “fundamentally resets the precedent for the conduct of large institutional investors.” Ken Paxton Secures ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Antitrust Settlement Against Vanguard for ESG Practices.
America’s dating crisis isn’t just personal—it’s cultural, fueled by tech, feminism, and lost manners, and threatens both romance and the nation’s future. The Dating Emergency
Black history month remains an important starting point for reforming American education and tearing down anti-black pedagogy that masquerades as if it is trying to help the African American community. America is Structurally Anti-Racist Trifecta
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Same goes for home wifi though it's less of a target.
AirSnitch "breaks worldwide Wi-Fi encryption, and it might have the potential to enable advanced cyberattacks," Xin'an Zhou, the lead author of the research paper, said in an interview. "Advanced attacks can build on our primitives to [perform> cookie stealing, DNS and cache poisoning. Our research physically wiretaps the wire altogether so these sophisticated attacks will work. It's really a threat to worldwide network security."
Fortunately for us - less fortunately for Zhou's credibility - this is horseshit.
But what AirSnitch does - and his co-authors have taken rather more care to make this clear - is break through the protections that supposedly separate the guest and private networks on many common wifi routers, ranging from cheap home models to open-source software with a focus on security to expensive enterprise systems from supposedly security-focused companies like Cisco.
Ordered a 4TB Crucial T710 SSD to replace the two 2TB P310 drives that Amazon lost in shipping. I ordered those because they were discounted close to the old price, briefly, on New Year's Eve.
The T710 is a much better drive and is also still close to its old price, but only because it was always expensive. But now it's only 20% more expensive than entry-level models rather than twice the price. And only a little more than two 1TB drives of the same model.
The main competition is Samsung's 9100 Pro, and that seems to be rapidly increasing in price itself.
Should have everything I need for a while. I'm short a drive so I'll have to shuffle things around a bit, but I have a couple of older Samsung 970 drives I'm not really using but still work fine, and they are suddenly worth using.
This young man has very likely become THE biggest name in the NHL
Left wing hockey Twitter has spent the last few days saying Jack Hughes lost “all his fans,” and here he is getting a standing ovation and loud cheers from the NJ Devils crowd
Using AI to manipulate photos has unfortunately become the norm in the real estate industry, with realtors using various models to radically transform properties to the point where people just can’t trust what a property really looks like. However, in extreme cases, AI can add some truly bizarre hallucinations that not only make zero sense, but can creep out potential buyers.
A Wahington DC property recently went viral on social media because of a rather unique detail – a horrifying flesh monster seemingly crawling out of the bathroom mirror to grab a flower pot on the sink. It’s the kind of thing only a hallucinating AI algorithm could create, but what boggles the mind is how the realtor posted the photo without noticing the nightmarish intruder,
As the photo started doing the rounds on social media, the listing, reportedly for a property in Fort Totten, was swiftly taken down from Apartments.com, but by that time, the Internet Archive had already saved a copy of the original post featuring the creepy monster.
There is a new viral weight-loss hack sweeping Chinese social media, and it’s a doozy. Young people are putting plastic wrap over their mouths to prevent any calories from making contact with their bodies. They then pretend to chew the food vigorously through the cling film, before taking the food out and throwing it away.
The premise of this bizarre trend is pretty straightforward. The plastic wrap acts as a sort of mouth condom that prevents you from ingesting any calories, while at the same time allowing you to trick your brain into thinking that it is going to receive nutrition. This allegedly helps you feel satiated without actually consuming any calories
Go ahead - check out the whole thing. I dare you.
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Staying in east Asia, how about this trend in Japan?
In Japan, a wellness practice known as coffin therapy (aka coffin-lying) has grown from a small funeral home experiment into a national trend. The idea is simple: people lie inside a coffin for a short period of time to reflect on life and mortality. What began in Chiba Prefecture as a unique service has now expanded to spas and workshops across the country.
Coffin therapy involves meditating inside a coffin, either open or closed, for about 30 minutes. Supporters say the enclosed space provides quiet and privacy, allowing participants to think about their lives without distractions. While the concept may seem unusual in other countries, it connects to Japan’s long-standing tradition of kuyō, or memorial services, which encourage reflection on the fragility of life and the acceptance of death.
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A Tokyo spa called Meiso Kukan Kanoke-in offers coffin therapy sessions for about $13. Customers can choose between an open or closed coffin and may select calming music, projected visuals, or complete silence. The experience is structured to feel safe and controlled, allowing participants to explore their thoughts without risk.
Who among the Horde would do this?
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DJ Doof - This Date in Music History
from thisdayinmusic.com
1965: Jimmy Page released a solo single called 'She Just Satisfies' in the UK. Page played all the instruments on the track except for the drums and produced the track, as well as singing lead vocals.
1983: Michael Jackson's Thriller went to No.1 on the US album chart. Thriller broke racial barriers in pop music, enabling Jackson's appearances on MTV and meeting with President Ronald Reagan at the White House. The album was one of the first to use music videos as successful promotional tools
2019: English drummer Andy Anderson died of cancer aged 68. He is best known for his work with The Cure playing on the singles ‘Love Cats’ and ‘The Caterpillar’.
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Target has paid $110 million to terminate its lease in Minneapolis after months of sustained protests across Minnesota, during which protesters occupied stores and office spaces in an effort to pressure the company to meet their demands.
From weft-cut loop. I think Doctor Zaius correctly interprets the scrolls of the Lawgiver, except when he says "the beast man" he really means "Democrats, communists and other affiliated sex-criminals."
"Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Ye, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair. For he is the harbinger of death."
The Pope attacked the US for enforcing its border. Tom Homan fired back.
Border Czar Tom Homan is pushing back hard on Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of misunderstanding the human toll of illegal immigration -- and arguing that President Trump's border crackdown is saving lives on both sides of the border.
"Look, what he doesn't understand is the flip side to illegal migration," Homan told Breitbart News when asked about Pope Leo's comments on migration. "Thirty-one percent of women get raped making that journey, 4,000 aliens died making that journey under Joe Biden. [A] quarter million Americans died of fentanyl because he opened the borders. When you overwhelm the Border Patrol, all the bad things happen: Sex trafficking increases, fentanyl increases. Securing the border saves lives. And I'd be happy to sit down and explain it to him: Illegal migration is not a victimless crime. So President Trump having illegal immigration down 96 percent, he's saving thousands of lives every year."
Homan, who described himself as a practicing Catholic, said Church leadership should be aligned with law enforcement and the rule of law. "I'm a lifelong Catholic, a still-practicing Catholic," he added. "The Catholic faith is always in support of law enforcement -- always has been. [Pope Leo] should be too."
He also invited the Pope to allow unlimited immigration into Vatican City and see how that works out for them: "If we jumped the wall at the Vatican, penalties are MUCH harder than in America." Video here.
Trump admin freezes Minnesota Medicaid cash -- $259 million put on ice
Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration is temporarily halting portions of federal Medicaid funding to Minnesota, delivering a blunt warning that the state must prove it can safeguard taxpayer dollars before the money starts flowing again.
Standing alongside Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, Vance said the administration is preparing to move "very aggressively" against individuals and organizations accused of exploiting Medicare and Medicaid programs.
"We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota," Vance said, arguing the pause is necessary "to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligation seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."
Oz confirmed that roughly $259 million in Medicaid payments to the state would be deferred.
Vance emphasized that health care providers in Minnesota have already been paid and that reimbursements to doctors and hospitals are not being cut off. Instead, the administration is suspending federal payments directed to the state government itself until officials demonstrate concrete steps to root out fraud and tighten oversight.
The vice president pointed to what he described as particularly egregious abuse inside a program designed to provide after-school services to autistic children.
"A program that existed to ensure that autistic children had access to some after-school services has made a number of people rich," Vance said, alleging that fraudsters set up sham businesses and even claimed services for individuals who were not autistic in order to siphon federal funds.
Guess who got angry and ran her ugly mouth when Trump mentioned the Somali pillaging of taxpayer funds?
Standing before a joint session of Congress, Trump argued that America has been "plundered" by entrenched corruption and singled out Minnesota as a glaring case study. He alleged that members of the state's Somali community had siphoned an estimated $19 billion from taxpayers, adding that the true cost could be far higher. Other states -- including California, Massachusetts, and Maine -- face similar problems, he said, framing the issue as part of a broader culture of fraud that flourished under weak enforcement and open-border policies.
"This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation," Trump declared, warning that the consequences don't stay confined to balance sheets. He argued that unchecked fraud and mass immigration drive up medical bills, insurance premiums, rent, taxes, and crime -- costs that land squarely on working Americans.
In one of the night's defining moments, Trump announced a formal federal "war on fraud," naming Vice President JD Vance to lead the charge. Though the administration began targeting waste months ago, Trump said the effort is now entering a more aggressive phase. The scale of abuse already uncovered, he claimed, is so vast that fully eliminating it could move the federal government to a balanced budget with stunning speed.
Democrats erupted when Trump referred to "Somali pirates" who "ransacked Minnesota," language that immediately drew outrage from Omar. Omar shouted "liar" from her seat as the president continued speaking -- a moment that crystallized the partisan divide over immigration, oversight, and accountability.
I don't know if I can take credit, but I began calling them "Somali pirates" before I saw anyone else doing so.
Below, she displays third-world standards of public behavior we've come to expect from our endless hordes of Cultural Enrichers.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump has Ilhan Omar GOING BERSERK after calling out Somalis and illegal aliens, she's yelling at the TOP OF HER LUNGS right now
The Democrats are shrieking that people with DACA deferments are being deported.
What the fail to mention: DACA is predicated on the recipient not committing crimes, and 92% of these DACA recipients have in fact committed crimes.
Per the data CBS News received and published, 241 out of 261 (92%) of these DACA recipients arrested by DHS had criminal histories beyond just immigration violations. https://t.co/ZAyl3qAZjR
You may have seen videos of feral criminals smashing people in the face with snowballs -- and when cops showed up, they pelted the cops in the face with snowballs, too.
❄️ ONLY IN NYC: 2 NYPD officers show up at the massive snowball fight in Washington Square Park, only to get absolutely destroyed by snowballs.
One of the hooligans who allegedly pelted NYPD cops with snowballs in a rowdy free-for-all at Washington Square Park has been unmasked -- as a 27-year-old punk who was arrested for attempted robbery just weeks ago, police said.
Gusmane Coulibaly was cuffed on Thursday in connection to the Monday afternoon mayhem that sent two uniformed cops to the hospital, authorities said.
Cops didn't immediately say what he was charged with.
It wasn't Coulibaly's first run-in with the law.
He was arrested for attempted robbery in a Bronx subway station less than three weeks ago, cops and sources said.
Coulibaly was one of four suspects pictured in surveillance photos released by the NYPD a day after video of the "snow"-commotion went viral on social media.
The three others remain at large, police said.
Another Innocent Bah-Bah Child, as Actual Justice Warrior says.
He supports abortion on demand until the child's head exits the birth canal. I think that's answer enough right there.
She asked him if he approved of the third-world savage behavior of Ilhan "Omar" Nur and Rashida Tlaib. He declined to criticize them, but said that we must not let Congress become "the Springer Show."
In response to this, Kasie Hunt immediately asked if it's all Donald Trump's fault that Ilhan and Rashida act like third-world savages.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) on Wednesday called out Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for how they behaved at the State of the Union.
They were rabid.
The fact more Democrats don’t condemn them is part of the problem.
LA School Superintendent Raid Update: He's an "Undocumented Immigrant" and He's Being Investigated for Stealing School Funds
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You may remember a post yesterday evening about the LA School Superintendent whose home and offices were raided by the FBI. People were guessing what the probe might be about.
Well, he's an illegal alien who has been working in the US for 20 years, and on top of that, he sure seems very, very rich for a public " " " servant " " ".
Embattled Alberto Carvalho's multi-million dollar real estate portfolio revealed as LAUSD corruption probe rumbles on
LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has an extensive real estate portfolio, with more than $6.3 million in properties across California and Florida, The California Post learned.
The revelation comes as the embattled schools chief is dealing with federal officials raiding his office, Los Angeles home, and a Miami property tied to the investigation. The raids are tied to allegations of fraud and corruption, a source told The Post.
They're using the word "corruption," which can mean a lot of things, but I think it's clear they mean misappropriation of public funds and/or kickbacks from contractors. A high-ranking school official has a lot of juicy, rich contracts to spread around, you know.
Carvalho owns at least six homes in Florida's Broward County and one in Los Angeles along with his wife, Maria. The schools head used to be Miami-Dade County Public Schools' Superintendent for more than a decade before joining LAUSD in 2022.
His main 3-bed, 3-bath San Pedro home is worth about $1.6 million, according to Zillow. The multi-floor single-family home is around 2,000 square feet.
Carvalho's most valuable home, according to Zillow, is his 5-bed, 4-bath Miami Shores home. It's valued at $2.4 million and has 3,576 square feet of space. He also owns two Miami condos worth around $1.4 million combined, per Zillow.
The LAUSD schools head earns $440,000 per year, and signed a new four-year contract last year.
Three more homes in Fort Lauderdale come in at around $1.3 million combined.
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The investigation is reportedly tied to a failed AI company called AllHere, which created a chatbot program for LAUSD with Carvalho at the helm, the program was later pulled.
Ah. So he diverted taxpayer funds to pay himself for a failed AI chatbot program.
Unbelievable. This is the kind of blatant self-dealing that Republicans almost never attempt, not because we're saints, but we know that we, unlike protected Democrats especially of the Oppressed Minority variety, would be instantly punished.
The home at the center of the Miami raid belongs to Debra Kerr, one of the leaders of AllHere.
I don't know when, or if, he got his immigration status fixed.
Born in Portugal as one of six children, Carvalho was the only of his siblings to graduate high school. He came to the United States at age 17 as an undocumented immigrant.
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While Carvalho keeps his personal life largely private, the Miami Herald reported that he was married to Maria Florio Borgia Carvalho and the couple has a daughter.
Carvalho has also been outspoken on immigration issues.
At a September 2025 news conference, he said students and families should be protected from "immoral, unethical and illegal actions" while referring to ICE raids in LA, describing an "unbearable lack of humanity."
In July 2025, he criticized ICE agents for allegedly urinating on the grounds of a Pico Rivera school, calling it a "new level of despicable insult."
Carvalho faced scrutiny before arriving in Los Angeles.
In 2020, while school superintendent in Miami, the district's Office of the Inspector General reviewed a $1.57 million donation made to a nonprofit he chaired, the Foundation for New Education Initiatives. The office questioned the timing and oversight of the contribution, asking that the donation be returned.
Weird how he keeps directing taxpayer money towards entities he controls or owns.
In 2008, Carvalho, then a senior Miami-Dade school official, was linked to a series of suggestive emails with Miami Herald reporter Tania deLuzuriaga while he was married. The emails included flirtatious messages such as "Will you be completely offended if I jump into your arms the next time I see you?" and expressions like "Love, love, love you. xoxoxo." The messages surfaced publicly after he was named superintendent, and he denied having an affair.
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In 2025, former LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner and several students sued the district, alleging that approximately $77 million in Proposition 28 funds intended for arts and music education were misused. The LAUSD denied wrongdoing and said it is clarifying compliance with state requirements.
FBI fires 10 involved in Jack Smith's classified docs probe of Trump
By Josh Christenson
The FBI has dismissed 10 agents and analysts involved in former special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents prosecution of President Trump, a spokesperson for the bureau confirmed Thursday.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that subpoenas were sent to Kash Patel, who now serves as FBI director, and Susie Wiles, now Trump's White House chief of staff, during the 2024 campaign.
Patel told Reuters, which first reported on the subpoenas, that agents had sought his phone records "using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight."
If you recall, these rogue agents previously claimed that their targets could not be warned by the phone company that they were being wiretapped, claiming that they were "flight risks" who would flee the country if they knew the feds were on to them.
Under questioning, various malefactors were forced to admit that no, they never really thought Republican Senators were "flight risks" at all.
An FBI official told The Post that it wasn't "just phone records and subpoenas -- but a massive targeting operation" that likely involved more than just the two Trump administration officials.
A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that it "condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which -- like other firings by Director Patel -- violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."
Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money.
Related: It's the Russiagate Plot's ten year anniversary.
Russiagate began 10 years ago today, documented in a Clinton campaign email discussing their Swiftboat project to smear Trump. So much evil was set in motion that day, and yet absolutely no one has been held accountable. pic.twitter.com/XVfT2VE8QK
Vance blasts Omar, Tlaib for 'talking loudly' at State of Union: 'nails on a chalkboard'
By Steven Nelson
Vice President JD Vance blasted Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for "talking loudly the entire time" during President Trump's Tuesday night State of the Union speech -- saying he had to restrain himself as he sat over the president's shoulder in the House chamber.
Omar (D-Minn.) and Tlaib (D-Mich.) heckled Trump throughout his annual address -- with Omar shouting her opposition to his mass-deportation drive in Minneapolis and Tlaib at one point turning to Omar and appearing to say "KKK! KKK! as other attendees chanted "USA! USA!"
"They're sitting next to each other, and they're talking loudly the entire time," Vance said during a stump speech in Wisconsin urging voters to re-elect incumbent Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden.
"It's just nails on a chalkboard. They're talking. They're interrupting. The president was completely unfazed by it," Vance said.
He also faulted the Queen of Government Graft Nancy Pelosi for not standing up to applaud Trump's call for the outlawing of insider trading by Congressmembers. You'd think that would be an obvious slam-dunk, but no, congresspeople love their graft and insider trading.
"My hope for all of you is that you find somebody who loves you as much as Nancy Pelosi loves insider trading, because then you will have a very good life indeed," Vance said.
Even Democrats are "uncomfortable" with Ilhan "Omar" Nur's and Rashida Tlaib's third-world behavior.
Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said there is frustration within the Democratic Party over the "unhinged way" some members protested Tuesday's State of the Union.
President Donald Trump called out Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday for their heckling during his speech, suggesting they "should either be institutionalized or deported." Following this annual speech, Bedford said there is "discomfort" within Democratic circles over how some members appeared as Trump spoke at the Capitol.
"That's not something the Democratic congressional leadership wanted to see from their members, there was a sort of admonition from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY] for just everyone to cool it, don't make us look dumb, and it feeds into the narrative that Donald Trump has about congressional Democrats when he stood there at the podium and called them crazy and said they're impossible to work with and they're irrational," Bedford said on the Hugh Hewitt Show, guest-hosted by Kurt Schlichter.
"Then in some ways, a few of them sort of proved Donald Trump right by screaming at him and refusing to stand for the notion that the government should support American citizens over illegal immigrants," Bedford said. "They sort of played right into Donald Trump's trap, so optically, it wasn't a very good night for Democrats."
In case you were unsure, a black female Democrat politician confirms that even asking Democrats to stand to show their support of American citizens is, in fact, racist.
I know that was weighing on many of you. At least now you have an answer, though I'm sure that answer is bitter to your racist brains.
Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump's request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as "racist" and said the moment made her "uncomfortable."
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When asked what she thought about Trump's question, Bynum said, "I think you can agree with the 'what,' like standing up for American citizens. But I disagreed with the 'how.'"
"There's thinly veiled racist language, anti-immigrant language in what he was asking and that was uncomfortable," she continued.
Bynum wasn't the only Democrat to slam Trump's address. Rep. Robin Kelly (D., Ill.) made light of Trump's presentation of military awards, including the Medal of Honor, to veterans during his address. "It was like an award show, 'You get a medal! You get a medal! You get a medal!'"
Trump honored five military members with awards for their service, including two Medals of Honor. Army chief warrant officer Eric Slover, who was wounded as a helicopter pilot in the raid to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, received the nation's highest award for valor in action. So did 100-year-old retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams, who Trump said had a "legendary dogfight" with seven Soviet pilots during the Korean War. Trump also gave out two Purple Hearts and one Legion of Merit award.
The patriotism!
And a GOP-aligned group is already running video of the Democrats' disgraceful third-world conduct in campaign ads.
The television ad marks the GOP's first effort to use the moment to build momentum for Republicans campaigning across the country ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The 30-second video is set to play all year nationally as part of a seven-figure ad campaign focused on immigration, according to Politico. It will particularly target key states Michigan, North Carolina, and Georgia, where Republicans are defending vulnerable incumbents, and eying possible pickup opportunities to hold on to their narrow majority in the House and Senate.
"Democrats are for illegal immigrant criminals. Republicans are for you," the ad states.
The quote plays off a successful ad strategy during the 2024 election, when Republican Political Action Committees commissioned an ad that read "Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you."
Another Harvard Professor Exposed as Friend of Epstein
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As I mentioned earlier -- but which you might have missed because I added it as a late update -- the WEF's President and CEO resigned after the board began to investigate him for his "three dinners" (uh-huh) and extensive correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. Despite kindling this friendship in 2018-2019 -- nine or ten years after Epstein's conviction for soliciting a teenager -- he claims he had absolutely no idea at all that Epstein was associated with any scandal.
On to the newest Harvard professor exposed.
We already knew that Harvard's Larry Summers, who was also Obama's chief economic advisor, was a close pal of Epstein's. He resigned from the school a few months back.
Harvard math professor Martin Nowak -- once dubbed Jeffrey Epstein's "inside man" at the university -- has been put on leave after college bosses learned "new information" about his links to the convicted pedophile.
University bosses' bombshell decision comes after ex-Harvard president Larry Summers, also scrutinized over his relationship with the financier, announced his resignation.
Nowak, who was gifted $6.5 million by Epstein to create the now-closed-down Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), will be the subject of a fresh probe investigating whether he breached the university's conduct policies, according to a letter first revealed by the Harvard Crimson on Wednesday.
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Nowak's links to Epstein are well-documented.
The ex-Wall Street financier visited PED offices at least 40 times between 2010 and 2018.
Nowak gave Epstein "unlimited access" to school grounds, supplying a keycard and a passcode, according to a 2020 review carried out by the university.
Huh. Giving a pedophile a backstage pass at a college. What could go wrong?
Damning Department of Justice-released emails revealed Nowak's plans to visit Epstein's infamous island.
One such correspondence from 2012 featured JetBlue flight arrangements between Boston and St. Thomas.
An email from February 2014 contained the subject: "Does JE want Martin Nowak to visit him on the island March 1?"
Nowak has denied having any knowledge of Epstein's crimes.
Boy that sure sounds familiar.
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Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, reportedly enjoyed their honeymoon on Epstein's private island -- and they flew on his infamous "Lolita Express" jet.
Also on board the flight was Epstein's madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.
"Mr. Summers and Ms. New spent their honeymoon in St. John and Jamaica in December 2005, which was long before Mr. Epstein was arrested for the first time," a spokesperson for Summers told the Crimson last November.
The spokesperson stressed that Summers and his wife were on Epstein's island "for less than a day."
Summers and Epstein also spoke about women, fundraising and politics in communications that have since been released.
You know, the "elite's" eagerness to break bread with this man could be explained away as something non-sexual. non-pedophilic if we had any claims that Epstein was just some kind of Svengali-like tornado of charisma and intellect.
But I never hear that. I just hear that he really liked jailbait.
And if no one can offer an innocent reason for seeking his company, I have to assume they just like jailbait too.
This is Nixon Squared. And the leftwing media insists this is all perfectly normal, and that Trump is The Real Authoritarian Here.
Phone records belonging to FBI Director Kash Patel and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles were subpoenaed by the bureau back in 2022 and 2023 as part of a "massive targeting operation" undertaken by the Biden administration, The Post has learned.
The subpoenas were issued when both Patel and Wiles were private citizens, as special counsel Jack Smith probed President Trump's handling of classified documents and his alleged efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
An FBI official told The Post that the information was contained in files found at the bureau's headquarters in Washington, DC -- similar to the "Arctic Frost" disclosures unearthed from apparent burn bags last year.
"It's not just phone records and subpoenas -- but a massive targeting operation," the official noted, indicating the use of both technical tools and human intelligence. Several FBI employees were fired Wednesday related to the discovery.
The existence of the subpoenas was first reported by Reuters.
Patel and Wiles' phone records were found in files labeled, "Prohibited," according to the outlet.
"It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records -- along with those of now White House chief of staff Susie Wiles -- using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight," Patel said in a statement.
The FBI director noted that he recently barred bureau employees from labeling files "Prohibited."
Purported "burn bags" related to the "Crossfire Hurricane" probe -- the FBI's investigation into alleged links between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia -- were also discovered by the bureau last year.
In official parlance, "burn bags" refers to containers that hold sensitive documents that are meant to be destroyed after a certain period of time.
Will Chamberlain points out there's more to the story -- the FBI asked Suzie Wiles' lawyer to secretly tape record her calls, and he did.
@willchamberlain
Everyone's buried the lede here.
It's not just that the FBI subpoenaed Kash and Susie's phone records. The FBI surreptitiously recorded a phone call between Wiles AND HER LAWYER! Even worse, the lawyer KNEW the FBI recorded the conversation, and didn't tell Wiles!
Disbar him, charge Jack Smith and his seditious Soviet FBI agents, and wiretap Chris Wray.
The Biden FBI secretly obtained Susie Wiles's phone records, including from *when she was Trump's campaign manager,* and they even recorded a phone call she had with her lawyer. Wild story. pic.twitter.com/2qklc2Y3nI
Bill Gates Is Very, Very, Very Sorry He Inadvertently Consorted With a Convicted Child Trafficker and Banged Russian "Dates" Procured by Jeffrey Epstein UPDATE: President and CEO of the WEF Resigns Over Epstein Ties
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You wouldn't believe how sorry he is about the "mistake" he made in becoming BFFs with a guy who just got convicted of soliciting a 14-year-old girl.
It's a real Oopsie Moment, all right, and he promises he'll #DoBetter now that Epstein is dead.
One of two Russian women Bill Gates admits having affairs with during his 27-year marriage was helped financially by Jeffrey Epstein -- who used the sordid secret to try to blackmail the billionaire Microsoft co-founder.
Gates tries to portray these women as, I josh you not, a "nuclear physicist" and a "bridge player."
But they were kept women, paid for by Jeffrey Epstein. I think the "nuclear physicist" was chiefly concerned with splitting the Nut Atom. (To borrow a joke from Empire of Jeff, I think.)
Gates' surprising mea culpa Tuesday was a questionable attempt to cleanse his image over his friendship with Epstein, which ex-wife Melinda French Gates largely blames for destroying their marriage.
"I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player ... and one with a Russian nuclear physicist," the billionaire told staff at a town hall for his Gates Foundation, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Gates admitted the affairs while maintaining that he did nothing "illicit" with his now-dead pedophile pal.
However, rumors of the fling with the bridge player, Mila Antonova, first emerged over her own ties to Epstein -- ones featured heavily in damning exchanges in the Epstein files.
Antonova was also an acquaintance of notorious Kremlin spy Anna Chapman, with a photo capturing them strolling near Wall Street before Chapman, the daughter of a former KGB officer, was booted out of the country.
Gates was 53 when he was first pictured with Antonova, who was in her 20s, at a national bridge event in Washington, DC...
However, one of Gates' main advisers and confidants, Boris Nikolic, introduced her to Epstein in 2013 -- when he'd already convicted of child-sex offenses -- as she sought help getting money to start an online business to teach people how to play bridge.
Epstein also paid Antonova so she could attend a programming camp as part of helping her pursue a career in software development, she told the Wall Street Journal in 2023, when she had initially refused to confirm the affair with Gates.
This sounds like he was paying money so that she could develop interests that could help her get close to Gates.
"Epstein agreed to pay, and he paid directly to the school," she explained at the time. "Nothing was exchanged. I don't know why he did that. When I asked, he said something like he was wealthy and wanted to help people when he could."
However, he appeared to have a far more sinister motive -- and try to force Gates to pay him that money and more under the threat of exposing his cheating to his then-wife.
A Gates spokesperson previously claimed that Epstein "tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates."
In a July 2017 email released by the Department of Justice, Epstein also made a string of allegations against Gates, branding his one-time friend "so cheap" for the way he'd treated his mistress.
"After I sent her that note she said she had little money, couldn't afford air conditioner, was living on a friends couch. Really needed money. I sent her some," he emailed Boris Nikolic.
"Your friend Bill is nuts," Epstein continued in the typo-filled rage. "His former girl. Can't afford air con. Can't afford to travel to bridge.The richest man in the world is so cheap, his former bridge girl and toy, lives on a friends sofa."
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Gates, meanwhile, has repeatedly expressed regret at his involvement with the late pedophile, and insisted he had no involvement in any of his wrongdoings.
"I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit," Gates said in the town hall meeting Tuesday, according to the WSJ. "To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him."
We'll see. Why would you purposely develop a friendship with a man just convicted of soliciting an underage girl, if not for a shared interest?
Do these billionaires just donate to left-wing causes like environmentalism so they have an excuse to ditch their wives, attend conferences, and score some Russian kept woman mish?
Jeffrey Epstein blamed "Charles" on the day Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lost his UK trade envoy job.
On 21 July 2011, the day it was announced that the former prince would step down from the role, Epstein wrote: "I assume he knows that this is Charles doing."
Finally, Bill and Hillary Clinton will finally be questioned about their contacts with the known and notorious pedophile and whoremonger.
It depends on what the definition of "underage" is.
House members are eyeing a new phase in their monthslong investigation into Jeffrey Epstein: A race to produce results that match the stunning Epstein fallout across the globe and satisfy an electorate clamoring for accountability.
This week's interviews of Bill and Hillary Clinton -- who are scheduled to testify to lawmakers under subpoena and behind closed doors about their relationships with Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell -- could be a pivotal moment in this effort.
Bill Clinton has maintained that he was an acquaintance of Epstein's but stopped communicating with him at least a decade before his arrest in 2019, and he has not been accused of wrongdoing.
His spokesperson Angel Ureña posted on social media in 2019 that the former president traveled on Epstein's plane four times internationally in 2002 and 2003, but that Secret Service details were present "on every leg of the trip." Hillary Clinton has said she has no memory of meeting Epstein at all. A spokesperson for the Clintons did not respond to a request for comment.
But the Clintons' depositions before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee come as the recent arrests in Britain of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, and ex-ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson, have only intensified the pressure on Congress to produce similarly dramatic impacts closer to home.
That means both Clintons will be put under a microscope for any potential transgression, whether it relates to the late financier's sex trafficking conviction or not.
"Obviously, the committee wants to see some people be held accountable," said Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) in an interview in advance of the high-profile depositions. The former president will testify Friday, and the former secretary of state Thursday, both in Chappaqua, New York.
Roughly 19 committee members are expected to be on hand for the depositions, and Comer said he suspected questions to focus on what interactions the couple had with Epstein -- in the White House or elsewhere.
"I think what you're seeing in Britain is, the charges against Prince Andrew and the former ambassador weren't sex-related crimes. They were more with respect to treason and selling secrets and things like that," he explained. "We were just fascinated how Epstein was able to surround himself with so many high-profile government figures, not just in the United States, but in other countries, so I think there will be a lot of questions."
Good afternoon!
Update: Like I said, these people just arrange left-wing conferences to pork prostitutes.
Oops. Another torpedo circled back and hit a globalist. Now we see why the deep state never "released the files". Lol. All Trump had to do was call it a hoax and Dems let their TDS override their protection racket. @TaraServatius@instapundit
Update: Boy, Epstein must have been a fantastic dinner guest to earn so many high-profile dining partners.
Brende has acknowledged he dined with Epstein three times between 2018 and 2019 and communicated with him by email and text, but said he was "completely unaware" of his past criminal activity.
The Morning Rant: The Biggest Boondoggle In History?
—CBD
The maniacal push for total conversion of our transportation network to EVs is part of the now-discredited and equally insane Global Warming/Climate Change power and money grab. At its heart it is two things: the first is raw, naked power. The elites want to control us, and transportation is a huge part of the modern world. The second is the degradation of our standard of living. EVs are inherently shorter range, more expensive, and more difficult to recharge on the go, so that will keep us closer to home...that mythical 15 minute city!
Sounds like socialism to me, because it is. And like socialism, it is failing because of that pesky little thing that guides civilizations' economic decisions....the market. Or Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand," which is merely the sum of all of the billions of individual decisions made by us for our own benefit.
But central planning, one of the tenets of power-mad socialists, ignores those individuals and instead decides what demand for goods should be. For economics geeks there is even a law -- Say's Law -- that suggests that supply can drive demand. But real-world evidence says that is mostly incorrect, and the socialists don't understand that law anyway.
So the mad push for EVs by automobile companies assumed that if they built those cars, no matter how expensive and inconvenient and dangerous (Lithium battery fires for the win!) they are, American consumers would buy them because...uh...reasons!
Those "reasons" can be distilled into one thing...worship at The Sustainable Organic Church Of The Carbon Apocalypse, which is Buck Throckmorton's brilliant term for the factless faith in EVs, renewable energy, a carbonless future, and unicorns!
Sadly, this hysterical conviction has spread to the C suites of our automobile manufacturers, and they fought the immutable laws of economics for years, until they simply ran out of other people's money...mainly their investors'!
hen Stellantis last week announced it was writing down $26 billion, the CEO of the car company that now owns Chrysler, Antonio Filosa, said it was “part of a decisive process we started in 2025 to once again make our customers and their preferences our guiding star.”
Which begs the question: What was Stellantis’ guiding star before if not its own customers?
For that matter, who or what has been guiding General Motors (which announced a $7.6 billion writedown last month), Ford ($19.5 billion), and other automakers that’ve written down a total of $140 billion in just the past three years?
Anyone who has followed the auto industry over the past decade knows the answer. All of these losses are the result of automakers chasing the phantom known as “zero emission” cars.
Those losses are staggering, and while I would suggest that the Soviet Union's grand experiment with socialism was a more comprehensive economic boondoggle, EVs are definitely in the conversation; the arrogance and stupidity of the automobile manufacturers' executives is certainly on par with the central committee of the Soviets!
There is some welcome news here. What the experience with the EV debacle shows is that consumers are still in the driver’s seat – no pun intended.
And now we find the crux of the problem. Consumers are ALWAYS in the driver's seat. Companies that provide what customers want are usually successful. Companies that lose sight of that axiomatic economic rule are rarely successful.
It's simple really. Free markets are successful for exactly that reason, and command economies will always fail because it is almost impossible to predict and guide demand through supply. I say "almost," because of course demand for EVs can be created by destroying the market for alternatives, but that is an economy-crushing behavior, and one that we see being played out in other countries.
Experimenting with people's economic lives rarely turns out well, and America's astounding economic success is a result of mostly avoiding that temptation!
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Good morning kids. Turning to the international scene, with the situation in Iran still fluid, if not volatile internally and with two American carrier battle groups now stationed within striking distance of the Mullahs, the big story is what happened right in our own backyard:
Four passengers of a Florida-registered speedboat killed by Cuban border guards were all born in the communist island nation but lived in the US, the Cuban Embassy said Wednesday night.
Cuba’s interior ministry claimed the country’s law enforcement opened fire on the boat after it entered their waters for an “armed infiltration” attempt.
The vessel was carrying a total of 10 “armed” people who Cuban officials claim “intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.”
The Interior Ministry alleged assault rifles, handguns, Molotov cocktails and other weapons were found onboard the speedboat.
Four of the passengers were gunned down by Cuban border troopers in a shootout. The six injured survivors were identified as Amijail Sánchez González, Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez, Conrado Galindo Sariol, José Manuel Rodríguez Castelló, Cristian Ernesto Acosta Guevara, and Roberto Azcorra Consuegra, according to the embassy.
The embassy additionally identified one of the deceased as Michel Ortega Casanova.
An eleventh Cuban national, Duniel Hernández Santos, was also arrested “within national territory,” though it’s unclear if he was on the boat with the other purported infiltrators. . .
. . . When asked for comment about the citizenship of those aboard the speedboat, the State Department referred The Post to earlier comments made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Rubio had vowed that the US would “find out exactly what happened” and “respond accordingly.”
He downplayed Cuba’s initial version of the attack, saying the US would find its “own information on this.”
“We’re not gonna base our conclusions on what they told us,” he said.
Rubio conceded “it is highly unusual to see shootouts in the open sea like that. That’s not something that happens every day.”
Now that the Maduro regime has been decapitated and Venezuela has at long last a chance to eradicate the cancer of socialism/communism and restore its society and economy once again to freedom and prosperity, thanks to President Trump's vigorous reassertion of the heretofore long moribund Monroe Doctrine now the DON-roe Doctrine, America's national security has been bolstered.
Record U.S. oil and gas production lowered world prices at the expense of Russia and the Middle East. Interrupting embargoed oil shipments from Venezuela and Iran has weakened Chinese influence and nearly strangled Cuba. . .
. . . Efforts to strangle the Cuban and Iranian governments will starve their respective anti-Western surrogates and their own terrorist efforts in Latin America and the Middle East—once more to China’s chagrin.
So, are the Cubans merely lashing out due to the aforementioned analysis by lurker extraordinarie Victor Davis Hanson, owing to the President's focus now on Iran or can the Trump State and War Departments handle multiple situations simultaneously. And is what Havana is declaring bullshit or are we engaged in any covert activity in and around Cuba? Their economy and government are now in a very precarious situation now that their supply of oil has been effectively cut off with the collapse of the Maduro regime.
Cuba has been and remains a lynchpin for our rivals and enemies to attempt to destabilize us. How incredible would it be to see the statues of bas reliefs of Marx, Lenin and Castro sledgehammered and dynamited off of every Cuban government building, just so we can see Barack Obama weeping at the sight of it.
Their vile behavior might very well be their undoing come the November midterms and perhaps into 2028, please God.
Of course that remains to be seen but if they continue to elevate illegal aliens, thugs, grifters and other assorted vermin above the American people as no doubt they will, that alone could and must wipe them out electorally, not just in the next two election cycles but for all eternity. Yes, eradicating tyranny abroad is a good thing, but can we please eradicate it here at home first and forever?!
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On Feb. 5, Yordan Basilio Diaz Vera, a 34-year-old Lyft driver, was arrested by Louisville authorities and charged of first-degree sodomy and kidnapping a mother of four. Since his arrest, ICE has placed a detainer on Diaz Vera and is now pleading with the Louisville police to not release the suspect back onto the city streets. EXCLUSIVE: ICE Urges Authorities Not To Free Cuban Illegal Charged With Sodomizing Mother
One can only hope that justice is served, not just for the victims of these devastating fires, but for the communities left vulnerable by years of neglect and misplaced priorities. Deluge of Wildfire Lawsuits Hits Los Angeles and California
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Veteran activists and ex-inmates Dhoruba bin Wahad, Jalil Muntaqim and Jihad Abdulmumit discussed how to navigate “extreme and revolutionary times” with anti-prison organization Believers Bail Out (BBO). Bin Wahad claimed their “struggle would be typified by” an Islamic passage containing a violent prophecy. EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Prison Group Scrubs Activist’s Rant About Killing Jews
A grassroots, anti-Big Tech movement is exploding across the country. AI and data centers have become a lightning rod political issue, and will likely play roles in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. Although Americans appear to be conflicted on whether the expansion of data centers will be a good thing or a bad thing, a very vocal and passionate slice of the population is racking up anti-tech wins and causing a big stir at the local level. Data Center Issue Exploding Into Full View All Across America
The owner of a Sonoma County winery believes the industry is dying because Boomers are.. “A lot of people have a misconception that the Boomers are drinking less,” he said. “This cannot be emphasized enough: it’s not because the Boomers are drinking less, it’s because there are less Boomers.” California winery owner gives hottest take yet on why industry is dying
Lloyd Billingsley: “Trans” murderer “Roberta” Esposito explains it all for you. “Why We GO BERSERK”
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
In a scene that plays out like something from the end of western civilization, police in Maryland appear helpless in their squad cars as a dash cam captures a street takeover of cars doing doughnuts as masked hooligans taunt officers and vandalize their vehicles. WATCH: Maryland Police Are Powerless as Street Takeover Rages Around Them
Schaefer, now 32, beat his girlfriend’s mother to death and stuffed her body into luggage during a luxury vacation more than a decade ago. He now faces federal arraignment Thursday at Chicago’s Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on conspiracy charges tied to the killing. . . Infamous Suitcase Murderer Returns To America Early After Indonesia Deports Him
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The trillions spent have lined the pockets of the politically connected but have produced none of the results that have been promised. Enough Climate Action — Shut The Money Spigot
An affidavit was filed in connection with the searches, but officials stated that the details remain under seal. Another search was executed at a Miami property also connected to Carvalho, who has been the head of the second-largest school district in the United States since 2022. Carvalho previously worked for 14 years as superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools. FBI Raids Home And Office Of Los Angeles School Superintendent
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump’s request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as "racist" and said the moment made her "uncomfortable." Democrat Lawmaker: Trump’s Request To Stand For American Citizens 'Racist'
Schumer said, “Bottom line is very simple, we agree we need to protect Americans. He’s not by his reckless ICE agency in Minnesota, two Americans were killed. Americans are being pulled out of their cars and beaten. Americans houses, the doors are being knocked down, you know, without a warrant. No other police departments in America run by Americans, has has done what ICE done. So, yes, we want to protect Americans. He’s not doing it. And that’s why the American people are against what ICE is doing. So that it was legitimate and right not to stand.” Chuck Schemer: ‘Legitimate and Right’ Dems Didn’t Stand at SOTU for Protecting Americans
“To join a union was to claim a place in America...The hunger for national belonging became readily evident to leftist labor organizers...Today’s college-educated left is disconnected from working-class voters.” The Case for Working-Class Nationalism
The only good thing I can say about the ejectamenta-Americans on the left is that, despite the quotidian clown-slap of reality striking their grottily pierced faces, they puissantly push forward like the frenetic, blue-haired banzai toadies they were brainwashed to be. Ooooh, That Smell: The Smell of Death Surrounds the Democrat Party
China and Iran are rapidly finalizing an agreement for the Islamic regime to purchase CM-302 supersonic missiles, with an approximate range of 180 miles, three officials briefed by the Iranian government and three security officials told Reuters. The deal is near completion after at least two years of talks and sped up swiftly after the 12-day June 2025 war between Iran and Israel, the officials said. The short war culminated in President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran Reportedly Turns To Communist China To Checkmate Trump
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s strategy prizes preemptive deterrence over drift or isolation, exploiting leverage to sap rivals, steady allies, and avert the cascading conflicts that metastasized under Obama and Biden. Is There a Trump Great Game?
The terrorist Organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation has established a hierarchical structure that allows the criminal organization to control its vast territories throughout Mexico. Similar to how a large-scale company operates, the structure allowed the cartel’s underbosses to run day-to-day operations without the constant need for supervision from the cartel’s supreme leader, the late Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. EXCLUSIVE: How CJNG’s Terrorist Leadership Structure Operates
The real proof of progress in Venezuela and what our president wants for the world in general was not found in his rhetoric about Delcy Rodríguez. It was found in another moment, the moment when he reunited a newly released Venezuelan political prisoner with his niece, who thought she'd never see him again. The SOTU Moment That Gave Hope to Millions Around the World
While NASA allowed this kind of medical research on ISS, it never allowed the companies to manufacture any products on ISS for later sale on Earth. The new private space stations are decidedly opposed to that government restriction, and thus they are attracting customers like LambdaVision because they will allow it to make money on what it produces. Medical company making artificial retinas buys payload slots on Starlab
Cool image time! In my continuing exploration of the New Horizons’ image archive, I keep finding things that I do not remember ever seeing before. The shoreline of Pluto’s frozen nitrogen sea
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Diversity efforts and LGBTQ ideology are likely still quietly lurking in the depths of corporate America. That is what the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) argued in the 2026 edition of its annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI) report, which rates corporations based on their “policies, practices, and benefits” pertaining to LGBTQ employees LGBTQ Ideology Can’t Just Seem To Die In Corporate America No Matter How Hard People Try To Kill It
Freedom of association, not bureaucratic credentialism, built excellence—great work arises from judgment and responsibility, not committees, quotas, or networking rituals. Two Cheers for the Old Boys
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TAT-8 went into operation in 1988 and then failed in 2002 and was deemed uneconomic to repair. Which not surprising since it could only carry 280 megabits per second - 40,000 phone calls, and an aggregate speed about half that of my home internet.
As the name suggests there were seven prior TATs, with TAT-1 being provisioned in 1956 and carrying 35 simultaneous phone calls. Six subsequent TATs ended with TAT-14 which could handle 9.3 terabits per second - enough bandwidth for everyone in America to be on the phone to someone in Europe simultaneously.
Even that was not enough and it was retired in 2020. Total transatlantic bandwidth today is somewhere in the low petabits.
He (probably a he) made off with 195 million tax records and an unknown number of voter records but probably all of them.
That jail break?
He asked it twice.
Anthropic, the company behind Claude promised in 2023 that it wouldn't train an AI that it couldn't demonstrate was safe and refuse to do... Uh, exactly what it just did.
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - February 25, 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. Giraffes are excused. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
[Top photo: Texas State Capitol Dome, Austin, Texas]
- The trip must make at least one stop in all 48 states in the contiguous U.S.
- The trip only makes stops at National Natural Landmarks, National Historic Sites, National Parks, or National Monuments.
- The trip must be taken by car and never leave the U.S.
The author and his wife compiled a list of 50 major U.S. landmarks - one in each state excluding Alaska/Hawaii and including D.C., and two in California. The used a computer optimization tool to map it all out.
The complete trip around the U.S. takes 13,699 miles of driving. Assuming no traffic, this road trip will take about 224 hours (9.33 days) of driving in total. The author estimates the trip will take at least 2 to 3 months to complete. You can start anywhere on the route as long as you follow it from then on.
Click on the link for the 50 landmarks. The link also has the Python optimization code if you want to make your own trip with your own criteria. With AI, you probably don't even need to know how to work with Python code.
Cat is 20 years young. Joe Scarborough just emailed me to call this "the most cogent, most aware, best version of this cat, ever, and f*** you if you disagree."
Sparring by male giraffes has been commonly reported since its first description in 1958 and is believed to play a role in establishing male dominance hierarchies. However, despite being often documented, quantitative investigations of sparring behaviour are currently lacking. Here, we investigate the factors affecting the frequency, duration and intensity of sparring bouts in a population of giraffes Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa living on a private fenced reserve in Limpopo, South Africa. We show that sparring bouts were most frequently observed in young adults, and between males that were more evenly matched in size. Sparring bouts between males of similar body size were also characterised by being of high intensity and of short duration. Taken together, these results support the suggestion that sparring functions principally to provide maturing males a means of testing their competitive ability without escalating to full-scale fights. Additionally, mature bulls intervened on young adults possibly to disable any winner effect achieved by the latter, with the most dominant bull being responsible for the majority of interventions. For the first time, we also show that individuals displayed strong laterality when engaged in sparring: individuals consistently preferred delivering blows from either their left or right side, and these preferences dictated the orientation of sparring bouts (whether head-to-head or head-to-tail).
First, some low-intensity neck wrestling, or "necking."
Giraffes will engage in wrestling bouts known as "necking," which is when a giraffe will swing their necks wildly, trying to batter each other with their heavy heads. But this isn't them actually fighting, it's just a measure of strength & fitness. 🏋️♂️ pic.twitter.com/5vKqBiPe52
Below, giraffes "sparring" by using their heads like weighted whips to pound each other.
I did not know this.
When giraffes spar they show a huge level of mutual respect and fair play
Like boxers grouped by weight, they duel with similar sized opponents. The direction of swing preferences are also taken into account so neither has an unfair advantage 1/2 pic.twitter.com/EGhsaSkWNr
This giraffe fight is narrated by National Geographic. The fight ends with a knockout. One giraffe clocks the other so hard on the head to give him a concussion and drop him.
Giraffe rescue:
When a giraffe was spotted with wire around his neck, people got him down to the ground very, very carefully so they could set him free 💗 pic.twitter.com/zM2wad7VPt
Nancy Mace to force a House vote of sexual misconduct report and harassment by congress members and staff. The wood chipper is no respecter of persons. Do it.
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Podcast: Sefton and CBD Talk SOTU and the Dem's vile behavior, Donald Trump's love of country, Iran is coming to a head, is Mexico intractable, Mamdani's NYC is circling the drain, and more!
Forgotten Early 80s Schmatlz Mystery Click Honey, I was your hero
And you were my leading lady
We had it all
Just like Bogie and Bacall
Ooof, it's worse than I remembered.
China Is Not Our Fren: Chinese government posts AI generated content featuring attacking and killing American soldiers. Pay attention to the ridiculous AI banter of the US soldiers. [dri]
Podcast: Sefton and CBD discuss AOC's brilliant entrance into geopolitical policy, Jesse Jackson's demise, Transsexual Psycho Killers, is NYC about to get taxed even more? Olympic athletes who bite the hand that fed them, and more!
Podcast: CBD and J.J. Sefton ramble about CO2, how Epstein's mess has crossed the Atlantic, the future dismal prospects for the UK, CA tax lunacy, To The Moon Elon!, the NFL, and more!
