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The Los Feliz Neighborhood Council alerted our office in late 2025 to the need for a crosswalk at Sunset Dr. and Bates St., which has just been completed!
Thank you to our incredible CD4 Field Team for continuing to problem-solve, push for solutions, and make our streets safer.
Once cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles do this—once you essentially look the other way for the homeless, junkies, illegal immigrants, criminals, or whoever it is, while shining a spotlight on taxpayers with over-regulation, over-permitting, and trying to manage every grain of their lives, versus saying to illegal immigrants, ‘Go do whatever you want,’ or to the homeless, ‘Go shoot up wherever you want or sleep wherever you want’—then you’ve lost it. L.A.’s there. San Francisco’s there.
Sleep wherever you want and don't worry about setting fires . . .
How's that high-speed rail coming along?
Yesterday we drove over a fancy new overpass which is intended to allow cars and trucks to easily make their way over the future high-speed rail tracks. It looks a lot like a smaller version of a similar overpass over a highway a few miles to the north.
Traffic crossing the nearby existing freight and Amtrak rails must still stop the old-fashioned way. The new overpass does not look particularly safe for pedestrians or bicyclists. Perhaps some new local bus routes between neighborhoods and country towns are planned for the future.
Some neighborhoods no longer exist, having fallen victim to eminent domain.
There won't be a high-speed train station nearby. So the promise of "local jobs" was kinda temporary.
The pretty new overpass does keep people from getting lost like they did for months on the previous very confusing detours which changed periodically. And some cars fell into ditches during the many months of detours and degraded roads, as well. So, in one small part of the future high-speed rail route, some progress has apparently been made.
I wouldn't be surprised if traffic over it is restricted when work on the rails begins. If it does.
Shafter Shafts plans for high-speed rail
This is not too far to the south of the pretty new overpass:
California’s high-speed rail boondoggle, which is already a $128 billion joke that has been decades in the making with not a single mile of track carrying a single paying passenger, has managed to find a brand-new way to embarrass the state’s “visionary” political leadership.
This time, it’s not federal funding cuts or blown deadlines doing the damage, but a Central Valley city and a major homebuilder simply refusing to get out of the way, greenlighting 1,200 new homes smack in the middle of the rail authority’s approved route.
California’s beleaguered, over-budget high-speed rail line now has one more thing to worry about: A city and housing developer wants to build homes right in the train’s projected path.
Shafter, a city near Bakersfield, and developer Lennar Homes are plowing ahead with 1,200 homes in the same area off Highway 99 where the state’s rail authority plans to build tracks. . .
Well. This seems rather late in the game to be changing the route on the already truncated high-speed rail line. See more details at the link.
New California High Speed Rail video for you. Based on a new report by the CAHSR Office of the Inspector General and developments in the city of Shafter, the project is at serious risk of not being able to open an Initial Operating Segment. At all.
So confusing!
Call Shafter’s move poetic justice for a project that has spent over a decade steamrolling farmers and small property owners with eminent domain and political entitlement.
Sacramento’s fantasy train may get ” shafted” by the plucky citizens of a small town that California bureaucrats chose to ignore. . .
As an added bonus, given the state’s “housing shortage,” it’s going to be very hard to make Lennar homes a villain in this story.
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You've likely heard that Newsom's wife has ties to California energy interests. Another reason to watch the politics around data centers and such:
Chew on this:
Your power in Reno and my power in SLT Calif both come from the same source -- NV Energy.
My electricity bill is routinely over $500 a month in the summer time, and it's rarely over 85 degrees during the daytime. https://t.co/DorJbqPaxf
And in current news, California lawmakers block Gov. Newsom's push to limit wildfire liability for utilities. The stock at PG&E, the special friends of Newsom's wife, has gone down.
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WEEKEND
THE MOST WOKE SENTENCE EVER?
"Real" papers that are indistinguishable from this are published almost daily. https://t.co/Q8ec0kcNRL
In this week's Grumpy Economist Rant, @JohnHCochrane revisits Alexander Hamilton's approach to the large public debt left by the Revolutionary War and explains how honoring contracts built America's financial reputation.
Dolly Parton’s music was never my taste, but somehow I always had only favorable impressions of her when she came into public view over the last 50 years. And just now I recall that a big Broadway play of my youth was “Hello, Dolly!” The film version would have been so much better with Dolly Parton instead of Barbra “Strident” Streisand. And so just now we need to improvise “Goodbye, Dolly.” Is it true that she’s the last figure in the country that everyone loved? Maybe. But let’s not overlook Tim Curry while we’re at it. And let’s salute America’s newest Great Lake!
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Music
Think everybody listens to the same music all the time?
Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.
Update:
Worst of all, by far, is "autoethnography"
It’s hard to convey to people who haven’t seen this stuff just how rife it is in the humanities and social sciences today. I remember going to Cambridge to study anthropology and thinking I would be asking big questions about human nature and bizarre rituals and customs, but all… https://t.co/zSVBEIBJ2b
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. A big thank you to TRex for filling in a week ago. My computer died. And he was gracious enough to fill in at the last moment.
Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Bedford Falls)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate
2) Be kind, be nice. And for heaven's sake, stay in your lane.
3) No, you may not run with sharp objects. I don't care if Timmy's mom let him.
4) Have a great weekend! Except for Timmy's mom. I hope she spends it at the ER.
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/23 Update – The latest update is that he has stage 2, “unfavorable intermediate”, which he notes is an awful name, but what it means is, it is in the middle, but bad enough that they want to treat it. It’s more aggressive than previously thought. He is at the point where he has to decide on treatment options, which means choosing which set of pretty unfortunate side effects he prefers.
8/20 Update – He has finished his radiation treatment, so all he has left are blood tests and waiting. Thanks for everything.
7/25 – Matthew Kant Cipher humbly asks for prayers for Marshall, a long-time friend and HS classmate of Mrs. MKC, who is currently hospitalized with heart failure.
8/7 Update – Marshall passed away after multiple organs failed. Matthew Kant Cipher humbly asks the Horde to pray for the repose of his soul and that God’s perpetual light would shine upon him.
7/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She is still doing fine. Her chemo pump seems to be working and everything appears stable for now. She says she is incredibly blessed! She is working on a stocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild. She would appreciate prayers for a successful IVF procedure and pregnancy for her daughter and hubby. Next week, Teresa and her husband will be going to California to visit their daughter who lives there and her family.
8/4 Update – Teresa was admitted to the hospital while on vacation in California. She has a bad infection – cellulitis - not due to the cancer. She is being treated with antibiotics and hopefully it will be cleared up in a couple of days.
7/29 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for Billy Ray’s mother, who was just admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. She is a cancer survivor and chemo destroyed her immune system, so this is a big worry.
8/2 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is feeling better, on oxygen and medication. She is not out of the woods, but has stabilized. She appreciates the prayers from around the globe and says thank you very much.
8/16 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is at home, recovering, and down to just needing a little oxygen at night. One of the doctors told her that he didn’t think she was going to make it. Prayer works.
7/29 – TecumsehTea wrote that MrTea’s diagnosis is colon cancer stage 4. They are praying for guidance for how to proceed.
8/12 Update – MrTea will start radiation treatments for the tumor in the sigmoid colon on Monday – 10 treatments. They are not sure what will follow; they are still looking at options. Surgery is not an option. The cancer has metastasized to the lymph node nearest the tumor and there are 3-5 small spots in the liver. There are also spots in his lung which are indeterminate. He continues on fenben and ivermectin. Prayers are appreciated.
7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated for cancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.
8/20 Update – Things are not going quite as well now. Please pray, as Susan has picked up a really bad cough. The coughing is so bad that she doesn’t want to eat. Please pray that this illness passes quickly.
8/26 Update – Susan’s cough has gotten so bad that they did X-rays on her chest. It might be pneumonia. She is in the hospital. Her sodium and blood pressure are low and she is not eating much now. They are trying to turn this around and ask for everyone’s prayers.
8/1 – Tonypete asked for prayers for his BIL, who is a developmentally disabled adult and has been living independently (sort of) for decades but the time has come for them to make some changes in his living arrangements and personal finances. This will not go well as he has VERY poor impulse control and anger issues. His dear wife has POA but that is limited in its reach and it is probably time for her to be granted guardianship.
8/15 Update – BIL was released from the hospital, so all is well.
8/7 – neverenoughcaffiene asks for prayers for Lynell, who was recently diagnosed with a rapidly growing brain tumor. Surgery was performed and they were not able to remove all of the cancer. Her prognosis for survival is one year. She is being treated with chemo and radiation. On top of her diagnosis and treatment, she recently broke her ankle. Please pray for Lynell and her husband as they navigate this new reality.
8/8 – Ace-Endorsed Author A. H. Lloyd posted that Mrs. Lloyd will undergo a double mastectomy to remove the breast cancer. She has advanced to Stage 1. Much hinges on the biopsy to determine the specific sub-category of cancer and whether chemo is necessary. Please pray for her in this time of need.
8/22 Update – Mrs. Lloyd is healing ahead of schedule and the surgeon was amazed at her progress. She is still in pain and has limited mobility, but each day she is gaining more freedom of movement. That is the good news; the bad news was the unrealistic expectations set by the medical staff. The surgery was much more significant, and she will also need chemo, contrary to what she was told before.
8/8 – Retired Buckeye Cop requested prayers for his nephew, Josh, who is losing his business due to overwhelming debt. Old addictions have returned; he is drinking heavily. He is currently estranged from his family. His mother is Mrs. Cop’s kid sister.
8/12 – Joe Kidd asked for prayers for a friend’s cousin, who is beginning chemo treatments for stage 3 cancer.
8/14 – RandomDave asked for renewed prayers for his job situation. He just found out that the position he was close to getting went to someone else, and doesn’t know where to turn. He hates to ask, but is getting desperate. He has a GiveSendGo set up; please contact Annie’s Stew for more info. Thanks to those who have already given and thank you for the prayers. They are keeping him from giving up.
8/15 – Donna V contacted Mis. Hum. to let the Horde know the following: “Please let the horde know I am doing fine in hospice”. She would appreciate your prayers.
8/15 – Buck requested prayers for his wife. She is diabetic, and had a bad day on 8/14, with weakness, vomiting, irregular pulse, high blood pressure. She has had sepsis 3 times. They went to ER, but they only gave her meds for nausea, and now she’s back home. Pray that she recovers quickly. Thanks to all.
8/15 – Intruder Driver asked for prayers for Tonya, who was burned over 90% of her body in a gas explosion in Cabo San Lucas. She is now in a hospital in Mexico City. She has a long road to recovery, if she survives.
8/22 Update – Tonya did not survive her burns. Prayers for her and her husband Rusty, who were/are active members of their local church in Mexico.
8/27 – P asks for prayers for the soul of her nephew, C, who committed suicide on 8/17. He was only 32. May he find the peace in the afterlife that he could not find in this life.
8/26 – Teresa in Fort Worth asks for prayers for her BIL, Dick, who was found dead in the alley behind their house in Texas. He had been in declining health and had dementia. They aren’t sure how long he was outside before he passed away. Teresa’s SIL seems to be handling it okay so far. Teresa also asks for prayers for a former neighbor, Melissa, who is hospitalized, recovering from a second stem cell/bone marrow transplant as they attempt to cure her leukemia. She now has blood blisters in her mouth and throat. She had to be intubated before her throat closed completely. This might be her body rejecting the transplant.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Database binary is 5M. Language is 1.2M. Both squish by 60% using UPX and seem to run just fine. The language will probably be pushing 5M as well by the time it's done, but that seems fine.
Next step is to point the language at the database and rebuild my personal blog. If that works well, others will follow.
I use Claude. I have a specific WSL instance set up for it. If it deletes it, I lose maybe an hour to reinstall the whole environment and pull the code back from Git.
Monty Python demonstrates the English sense of humor for a Dutch audience. I've seen them do this bit at their live shows but I never saw the original staging, which I guess was for Dutch TV.
You probably know Mark Proksch. He played the awkward, annoying Nate on The Office, and the awkward, annoying energy vampire Colin Robinson on What We Do in the Shadows.
What you might not know is that Mark Proksch is an energy vampire in real life and the character of Colin Robinson is a just a slightly rewritten version of himself.
He became famous when -- just because he was bored -- he began calling local news channels telling them that he was a Yo-Yo Master named Kenny "K-Strass" Strasser, and that he uses his champion yo-yo skills to educate school children about global warming.
In fact, he can barely yo-yo at all. He strains to do a simple up-and-down move.
And in a medium where speed is everything and a segment has to be wrapped up in two minutes, he wastes as much time as possible, talking endlessly about trivial details no one cares about while making excuses about why he doesn't want to do the one thing he was brought on TV to do, play with the yo-yo.
The energy vampire really fed well during these appearances. The hosts try to keep things moving but this vampire keeps things slow and awkward.
More about the history of this energy vampire here.
FACT: sports "journalists" are just low-IQ damp communist apparatchiks who want to go down on athletes.
Faith in American media keeps hitting new lows. How can news outlets regain that trust? Could it be by investing themselves in a position that 80% of the American public opposes? The Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) want everyone to hold their beer.
Each year, APSE holds contests for sports coverage in several different categories. This year, the APSE has added a new category for covering transgender sports. The announcement came last month, but curiously did not make news at the time:
APSE first vice president Erik Hall introduced a new category for the upcoming APSE contest. This category is dedicated to recognizing Excellence in Coverage of the Transgender Community in Sports. The announcement was made during the awards banquet at the annual APSE Summer Conference on Saturday night, July 18, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia.
Glorious. No notes. S-tier.
At least four "women's" golf tournaments in Canada this summer have been won by men. aka Women 2.0.
Women 1.0 were crazyyy, man.
Jarvis
@jarvis_best
I was pleasantly caught off guard by the argument of former journalist Peter Beinart who responded to a group of Michigan Jewish Dems who were uncomfortable with El Sayed by telling them that El Sayed will stop global warming and global warming will be Bad For Jews.
Shut up, Jews. The Radical Gay Islamists are in charge now.
Those words from Jim Sheehan, owner of the Wydaho Roasters coffee shop in Driggs, Idaho, have sparked the latest controversy over the right of businesses to refuse service on the basis of religious or political views.
Sheehan has drawn national attention after throwing out a group of pro-life teenagers, calling them the equivalent of a Ku Klux Klan meeting in his shop. Sheehan clearly caters to those who want their lattes with an added shot of rage.
However, this and a number of other cases have exposed the hypocrisy of many regarding the service businesses must provide customers with opposing views. From cakes to coffee, shops remain ground zero for an age of rage.
Years ago, politicians and pundits rallied around the effort to force Jack Phillips, a cakeshop owner, to create cakes celebrating same-sex marriages. Phillips objected that it violated his religious beliefs. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court in what many of us hoped would be a final resolution of this conflict.
It wasn't. The Court, under the control of swing-voter and super-gay Kennedy, punted in such a way as to require people to spend hundreds of thousands in court costs to have a chance to find out if they have free speech rights and the right of conscience or not.
A more recent 2023 case expanded people's rights a bit more.
But notably, in cases like Masterpiece Cakeshop, Phillips insisted that he would always sell cakes to any couple, including same-sex couples. He only refused to make cakes specifically celebrating same-sex marriages, due to his religious views.
The case of Wydaho is different. Sheehan refused the same general accommodation offered to all customers because he opposes pro-life causes. In the confrontation, Sheehan declared that "in my world" pro-lifers are no different from the Ku Klux Klan.
"This is my place of business," he declared. "I did a lot of work to get people on the ballot so women would have the right to choose in the state of Idaho, and this is something I do not support, nor does my wife, and it's our business. So we have that choice."
In my view, they do have that choice. Yet it must also be acknowledged what Sheehan is doing is far more extreme than what Phillips did in Masterpiece Cakeshop. He is not being asked to create a coffee concoction opposing abortion, like a Cafe Au Life specialty drink. He acknowledges that other groups might use the shop -- he just does not want these teenagers to use it to support pro-life causes.
The same controversy arose the same week across the country in Virginia. In Alexandria, Fatana Karimi, owner of the Karimi Salon, threw out a woman after she revealed that she was Israeli. Jessica Walton posted an account of the encounter, and a video was later posted on social media.
Breaking news, liberals are terrible, hateful, ill-behaved, maleducated mentally-ill assholes and extreme narcissists who deploy the reasoning of selfish children to say "I get whatever I want whenever I want it, and you get nothing, and no I'm not interested in a rule that favors us equally, I'm special, the rule will always change to favor me at all times."
I'm sure this breaking news which comes as a huge surprise to most of you.
An anonymous account used AI to parody the third season of the woke racebent lame-n-gay Rings of Power, showing dwarves with ludicrous dwarf-fros:
Are they trolling us? Are they cave trolling us? Are they in on the joke now?
The Department of Education has told schools to stop overpunishing white kids and underpunishing black kids to create "balance" in punishment -- irrespective of actual student behavior -- and Reuters is just heart-sick about it.
They have "experts" who say that racism is good!
The U.S. Education Department has issued guidance urging schools to stop what it calls "racial balancing" in student discipline policies, prompting concerns that the Trump administration is making it harder to address longstanding racial disparities in school discipline.
Federal civil rights data has shown Black students are disciplined at disproportionately high rates.
Is there any reason for that?
Wait, wait, don't tell me -- racism, right?
An Education Department report, opens new tab released in 2023 found Black public preschool children received out-of-school suspensions at a rate nearly twice their enrollment.
The new guidance says schools cannot modify discipline policies simply to reduce such racial disparities.
A school's decision "to change its discipline policies with the purpose of avoiding or reducing racial disparities in discipline constitutes race discrimination," the Education Department's office for civil rights said in a letter.
It said schools must ensure students are not treated differently because of race and that "racial balancing" constitutes discrimination.
Students must be treated equally and not discriminated against or in favor of due to their race, which, experts say, is The New Racism and White Supremacy come out from under its sheet.
The guidance follows the department's decision last month to remove several "disparate impact" regulations that for decades have prohibited policies and practices with discriminatory effects that are often unintended.
President Donald Trump has acted against diversity initiatives, which he calls discriminatory against white people and males. Civil rights advocates say Trump's actions are rolling back social progress by removing practices aimed at helping marginalized groups.
Eric Duncan, education equity advocacy group EdTrust's director of P-12 policy, criticized the latest guidance.
"You cannot address racial disparities in school discipline by telling schools to ignore race," he said. "Black students have long faced some of the harshest discipline in our nation's schools.
This is from a year ago, but I think you'll enjoy it anyway.
Women who 'hate' men might be the most desirable to date, shocking dating theory reveals
Beastly left-wing castrating women are pushing the theory that Akshually we're the best partners for the men we despise and want to harm and humiliate.
A recent -- rather controversial -- hot topic in today's dating world has taken the internet by storm: women who openly say they "hate men" might actually be the best partners to date.
According to social media, men could benefit greatly from dating women who express discontent with the opposite sex -- but it's not as controversial as you might think.
TikTok user James White (@jameslwhitee) stirred the pot with a viral video in which he elaborated on this theory -- believing women who say they dislike men could be the most loyal, loving partners out there.
"Okay, so if you're a guy who can find a girl who hates all men, but! But, but, but likes you? You're set. You are literally set for life," James explained, explaining that many men misinterpret these women's stance.
I got this from the Boyscast, who point out that there's a big presence on TikTok of men who say whatever angry feminists want to hear to get them to DM them for sex. It's p***ybait. It's pooterslop.
Or, they postulate, this guy might just be gay.
They also point out that a woman who "hates" anything -- not just men, but anything -- is by definition hateful and angry, and have you ever noticed, people who are generally hateful and angry aren't easy to get along with?
And if they hate you in particular -- rather worse. Rather worse.
He claims that instead of seeing their expressed disdain for men as a negative, he believes it's basically a filter.
"All these girls who hate all men," he added, "they're gonna find one man that they love, that they want to take care of, that they cherish, that they wanna be super kind to, super sweet, everything like that."
If a woman who's skeptical of men as a whole chooses to let you in, then supposedly she's serious about you.
In a separate video, TikTokker @tootsietat added that women who loudly criticize men could be searching for the rare, "not all men" type of guy.
Instead of just talking about the flaws of men in general, these women want to see actual proof of a man embodying the qualities that make him stand apart from the negative stereotypes.
If I said "I would never date a woman from [x] minority because the negative stereotypes I associate with them" -- do you think any leftwingers would urge women from that minority group to try to prove to me they don't embody the negative stereotypes I associate with their race?
Nah, right?
I thought so. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy.
Woke "trans" tourist: Now that the UK says that biological men must use the men's bathrooms, I don't know which bathroom to use.
What a riddle. Who could figure out such a puzzler?
Transgender tourist visiting the UK says he doesn’t know which bathroom to use after new UK rule banned men in women’s toilets.
“I’m trans and I heard I’m not allowed to go to the women’s restroom in public spaces. I don’t know where to go to be honest.” pic.twitter.com/MBo8eExhey
Super-centrist moderate Hillary Clinton beloved by "conservative" NeverTrumpers: I support the "experiment" to see if socialism will work in America.
Hillary Clinton on the RISE of SOCIALISM: "The Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through an experiment. Like who can actually respond particularly to young people's very real concerns about where they are at this point in their lives and what kind of future do they…
In an episode published on August 5, Van Lathan Jr., host of Higher Learning, went on an extensive rant proclaiming that American Christians nationwide are "villains" and "mean people" who he expected to see "saying something wild," all while Talarico laughed and nodded in agreement. Talarico then told Lathan Jr. that he didn't believe that Christianity as "defining someone as a good person" was dead, but agreed that his "assessment is spot on."
Talarico's strain of "good person" Christianity comes from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, headed by Jim Rigby. Rigby has employed the use of an "inclusive Bible" that forbids solely masculine pronouns for God and considers the use of titles like "King" or "Lord" for Jesus Christ to be akin to "rape culture." St. Andrew's Presbyterian distributes sexually explicit books to children with the message that "God is queer, and funds Planned Parenthood and trans youth summer camps.
SCOOP: In a 2025 appearance on the Higher Learning podcast, Democrat candidate James Talarico called the idea that Christians are the "villains" of American society "spot on." pic.twitter.com/GYE7lSHbvs
Bonus: Sonny Hostin pressured a DA to drop trespass charges against her son, with the "Don't you know who I am?" maneuver.
The DA supposedly rejected this pressure -- but surprise surprise, her son got a sweetheart deal requiring only that he go to a three hour "course" and the charges will be ultimately expunged.
The entitled son of "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin had to complete a court-ordered course to get his Westchester County trespassing case dismissed -- despite his celeb mom's two-month-long campaign to make the case disappear.
Ivy League-educated Gabriel Hostin, 24, was nabbed trespassing on Metro-North Railroad tracks in New Rochelle on June 16 and hit with a trespassing violation. During his arrest, his famous mom was caught on bodycam trying to throw her weight around with cops at the scene.
"My name is Sunny Hostin and I'm one of the co-hosts of 'The View' and I'm a former federal prosecutor," she told cops. "That's my son. He's a Harvard graduate, he doesn't have a criminal record."
According to sources, she didn't let up after that, and consistently hammered away at the Westchester County District Attorney's Office to make it all go away without any recourse.
The younger Hostin eventually agreed to accept a deal, which required him to take part in a three-hour Fresh Start course, which the Westchester DA's Office said is a "pre-arraignment diversion program that provides eligible first-time, low-level offenders" with a chance to have the cases dismissed.
Gabriel Hostin completed the course on Aug. 20, and the prosecutors have sent a letter to the court requesting that the charges be dismissed after completion of the course.
To be honest, it's a minor offense and I wouldn't expect there to be a serious penalty for it. But then, Sonny Hostin, who claims to be a lawyer, would have realized the penalty would have been a slap on the wrist with the charges expunged after a minor pre-trial diversion.
But she was determined that her son should receive no penalty at all.
Because she's on The View. Why she imagines that's a credit, I don't know.
So f*** that bitch Sonny Hostin and her incredibly privileged form of "oppression."
Blue Shithole Cities Have Rampant Crime in Their Public Transit Systems. They Could Slash Crime By Simply Stopping Fare-Evaders Plus: Spanish Citizens Set Fire to the Shanty Town Put Up by Moroccan Invaders
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Really? The very people whose first encounter with public transit systems is to commit a crime by jumping the turnstile turn out to also commit a huge amount of crime once they're in the system?
City Journal argues that instead of wasting money on programs already shown to be ineffective, Congress should just fund full-height fare gates that cannot be jumped as turnstiles can be.
Last November, 72-time arrestee Lawrence Reed poured gasoline on a CTA Blue Line passenger in Chicago and set her on fire. The incident was so egregious that the Federal Transit Administration got involved, threatening to withhold $50 million in federal funds unless the CTA enhanced systemwide security. The CTA implemented its plan in March, but the benefits have been hard to detect so far.
Congress is poised to repeat the FTA's ineffective intervention. The Surface Transportation Reauthorization--the government's five-year approval of road and rail funding--features several similar attempts to improve public safety.
Fortunately, America's major transit systems have a better option to reduce crime and disorder: installing full-height fare gates, which keep criminals out of transit systems. Congress should require and fully fund the installation of new full-height fare gates for all systems that don't yet have them.
Transit officials report that serious crimes are committed overwhelmingly by people who evade fares. In the Los Angeles Metro system, 97 percent of people who committed a violent crime didn't pay. In Washington, D.C., 99.5 percent of those who committed a "Part 1" crime (homicide, rape, robbery, arson, or motor vehicle theft) had dodged the fare. In New York, MTA CEO Janno Lieber says that "virtually all" crimes are committed by fare evaders.
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Other systems report similar findings. Washington, D.C.'s WMATA found that, following its own modernized fare-gate installation, fare evasion fell by 82 percent and crime by nearly 40 percent. L.A. Metro reports that a pilot program for modernized fare gates reduced passenger reports of security concerns, uncleanliness, and vandalism and graffiti by 69 percent at affected stations.
I know we don't like Congress funding state or city systems, but apparently they're determined to throw taxpayer money at the problem. Might as well do something that can actually fix things.
Except... would it? These shithole cities refuse to stop fare evaders. Congress can pay for new fare gates, but it can't actually force shithole cities to enforce the payment of fares. If you've ever been in a subway, you know there is a floor-to-ceiling gate at every entrance that are opened for people with wheelchairs or baby-strollers, who cannot go through the turnstiles.
And you also know that criminals rush through these gates when they're opened and hold them open for their hoodlum friends.
Manhattan Institute
@ManhattanInst
The numbers here are insane:
In the L.A. Metro system, 97% of people who committed a violent crime evaded the fare. In D.C., 99.5% of those who committed a “Part 1” crime (homicide, rape, robbery, arson, or motor vehicle theft) had dodged the fare.
In New York, MTA CEO Janno Lieber says that “virtually all” crimes are committed by fare evaders.
Speaking of broken windows: The left-wing media and socialist Spanish president Dirty Sanchez say that "almost all of the migrants in Ceuta" have returned home.
Thousands of Spanish citizens are revolting in CEUTA and demanding the expulsion of the migrants, which the Spanish government did not want or rather prevented.
They are now taking the law into their own hands and setting fire to the migrants' slum huts and driving them away from the beach.
Chaos in Ceuta. Spanish patriots with clubs attack North African Muslim invaders, razing illegal camps on Ceuta's beach. These brave patriots cannot be blamed, considering that a month has passed since invasion began and no one has done anything. pic.twitter.com/QCJx0k76qE
🚨BREAKING: Ceuta locals are now tracking down and BLOCKING vehicles belonging to the Red Cross NGO, in order to halt their operations across the enclave
This is unprecedented. They are warning the Red Cross to leave immediately.
When the locals saw that journalists from the liberal TV channel La Sexta had arrived to slander their protest against illegal migration, the locals quickly walked up to them and told them to get lost.
Shock Study: There's a Direct Link Between Extremist Trans Ideology and the Trans Violence Committed to Vindicate That Extremist Ideology
—Disinformation Expert Ace
If we were talking about any group the right, there would be no debate about whether the most extreme, no-deviation-allowed, all-who-deny-our-claims-are-enemies-and-valid-targets version of an ideology leads to violence. In fact, the left claims that fairly milktoast agitators like Ben Shapiro constitute an intolerable threat of extremist violence.
A just-released study from Rutgers University, the Network Contagion Research Institute, and the Manhattan Institute has found something not at all surprising...
"These findings suggest that gender ideology is associated with LWA [left-wing authoritarianism] and willingness to justify political violence."
Knock me over with a feather. Here's the rub:
Finally, broader research on perceived victimhood, moralization, and political violence suggests that identities organized around grievance, perceived victimization, and injustice, when paired with authoritarian or punitive dispositions, can predict support for anti-democratic or violent political action... Taken together, these literatures suggest a common mechanism: ideological content that names an oppressor class, certifies ongoing victimization, and locates remedy in coercive institutional or social action which may supply authoritarian psychology with morally justified targets.
The study establishes a correlation but not necessarily a causation.
Although, to be fair, they have to say that or trans extremists will murder them and their children.
Research frameworks for understanding authoritarianism have historically focused overwhelmingly on the political right, while analogous left-wing pathways have received far less attention...
You don't say!?
This study suggests that the same psychological machinery operates on the extreme left, and that it may be running through institutional channels -- clinical guidelines, professional standards, credentialed expertise -- that current threat-detection frameworks are not well designed to recognize. Violence connected to gender ideology remains largely undocumented in the academic literature. This study provides a first systematic empirical look at the psychological infrastructure that makes such violence conceivable.
More at the link, including the kind of statements -- for example, there's a "trans genocide" underway -- that seem to motivate extremists to kill 24 school children to stop this "genocide."
Colin Wright
@SwipeWright
🚨BREAKING: Our new HHS report--"Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?"--is out!
For decades, psychological research has looked at opposition to transgender ideology through a lens of prejudice and right-wing authoritarianism. We asked the conspicuously neglected flipside question:
What psychological traits characterize those who most strongly endorse gender-affirming norms?
In a preregistered study of 1,208 U.S. adults, we developed a Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale (CGAS) using positions drawn directly from guidance issued by the APA, American Psychiatric Association, WPATH, and American Academy of Pediatrics.
Our results shocked us.
Endorsement of mainstream principles of "gender-affirmation" was strongly associated with left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) and support of political violence.
Both LWA and endorsement of gender-affirming clinical norms were associated with greater justification for killing Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, and Brian Thompson, as well as arson against ICE buildings, destruction of wealthy people's property, and violence against police.
These relationships remained significant even after controlling for political identity.
Acceptance of gender ideology appears to augment authoritarian attitudes in support for political violence.
From our report:
"Together, these findings support the paper's core claim: gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant, telling left-wing authoritarian psychology who the enemy is, why the situation is urgent, and--in those already disposed toward force--that violence is legitimate."
We believe institutionalized gender ideology may function as a kind of ideological "content package" for people already disposed toward left-wing authoritarianism. It assists in identifying oppressors, creates moral urgency, and provides justification for taking coercive action against opposition.
This is only the first of a series of @HHSGov reports we're working on as a collaboration of researchers at @ncri_io, @RutgersU, and @ManhattanInst.
Stay tuned for more.
WPATH, which claimed for years that it had perfect scientific proof that transing children "saved lives," is being sued for by the FTC for fraudulent claims about the mutilation of children.
And what's their defense?
They now say they weren't offering facts -- just OPINIONS!
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) now claims that its "standards of care" are merely one opinion in a debate over youth gender medicine. This marks a dramatic change for WPATH, which spent years promoting its approach as the only ethical one to help youth and adults who experience distress associated with their sexual embodiment.
WPATH makes this claim in a legal filing submitted in a lawsuit brought against it by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The federal agency alleges that WPATH has engaged in consumer fraud, specifically listing ten "deceptive claims" made by the defendant about the benefits and safety of medical interventions. According to WPATH, however, the claims in question "are non-actionable opinions about subjects on which there is medical and scientific uncertainty," and as such protected under the First Amendment and not subject to FTC jurisdiction.
🚨BREAKING: Our new HHS report—"Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?"—is out!
For decades, psychological research has looked at opposition to transgender ideology through a lens of prejudice and right-wing… pic.twitter.com/yaNJ6DPNVI
Is that a real fear? Yes, for several reason. First, intelligence warned of an attack on Poland by Russia, with Russia hoping to make Poland back away from its support of Ukraine.
And then months after that, a Russian missile fell in Poland. The missile hit an empty field and killed no one, but it seems likely that it was intended as a threat, especially since it had been predicted by intel sources.
And now their are fresh reports that Russia is planning another provocation attack.
Second: Russia is losing this war and one of the most basic reactions to losing on one front is to open another front. The CIA seems to fear that Putin will become desperate and escalate the situation to delay his defeat.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe's personal visit to Moscow this week saw him warn Russia against any strikes on NATO nations, multiple outlets have reported.
Ratcliffe visited Russia this week and met with intelligence officials, but not President Vladimir Putin. The meeting came amid reported concerns from Washington that Russia could attack one of the Baltic States, all of which are in NATO, according to the Wall Street Journal.
That wasn't the only point of the trip.
The other objective was to deliver the CIA's assessment that, despite the US previously figuring that Russia would eventually win the war due to their great advantage in population and war materiel, the CIA now believes that Russia will lose the war, given the disastrous 2026 Russian spring and summer offensives, which are hardly worthy of the name.
Ratcliffe urged Russia to start seriously negotiating for a peace deal before Russia suffers military and economic damage that could take generations to repair.
For those of you who have, like me, been reading about the Ukraine-Russia war, and wondered if the news of Russia's bloody failure was just Ukrainian propaganda: It appears not. The CIA broadly confirms what we've been hearing from Ukrainian sources and independent analysts.
C.I.A. Chief Delivered Bleak Assessment of Russia's War in Secretive Moscow Visit
John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, made a secretive visit to Moscow this week to privately share his bleak assessment of the state of the Russian war against Ukraine, and to urge the Russians to cut a deal before their military and economic situation gets worse, current and former officials said.
Mr. Ratcliffe delivered the message to Aleksandr V. Bortnikov, the head of Russia's F.S.B. intelligence service, and made no threats about potential consequences for the Russian side should President Vladimir V. Putin ignore the C.I.A. director's assessment and choose to continue fighting.
C.I.A. analysts have long questioned whether Mr. Putin's advisers have given him honest assessments of the war's trajectory and toll.
This is discussed a lot -- Putin is almost like Hitler in seeming to believe that he's winning this. People attribute this to the fact that generals and staffers who give Putin bad news tend to exit tall buildings from high windows.
The C.I.A. has long maintained communications channels with the F.S.B. and Russia's foreign intelligence service, which is known as the S.V.R.
Officials said Mr. Ratcliffe's intelligence channel with Bortnikov runs parallel to separate channels that President Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, have established with other senior advisers to Mr. Putin.
Some officials said they hoped that Mr. Putin, a former intelligence officer himself, would see a message from the C.I.A. director as more urgent and credible than communications through normal diplomatic channels.
For much of last year, Mr. Trump and some of his top advisers appeared to hold the belief that a Russian battlefield victory over Ukraine was inevitable because of Russia's larger population and its nuclear arsenal.
But the Russians have suffered massive losses, and their battlefield gains have stalled.
It is not clear whether Mr. Ratcliffe's message presaged any change in U.S. policy toward Russia or Ukraine.
Mr. Ratcliffe's visit was the latest effort by the Trump administration to breathe new life into stalled negotiations. It has become increasingly clear that Ukraine is not going to give up its fight in the east, even with reduced U.S. military support.
Given what he presented as the bleak military and economic reality for Russia, Mr. Ratcliffe told Mr. Bortnikov that he believed it was time for Moscow to engage in serious negotiations to end the war.
Since Mr. Trump's return to office, the United States has scaled back its military support to the Ukrainians, forcing them to rely more heavily on European partners.
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Last month, Mr. Ratcliffe spoke out pointedly about Russian troop losses during the war, and Moscow's inability to advance on the battlefield. He noted that the life expectancy of a Russian soldier on the front lines was less than 35 minutes.
And he added that Russia had gained only about 1 percent of Ukraine's total territory in the 18 months since he became C.I.A. director, a development he attributed to Ukraine's "mastery" of drone technology.
Ukraine is parlaying that drone mastery into more aid. They're striking deals with many countries, including the US, and trading their hard-won expertise at drone warfare and technology for additional weapons (including more drones and components for drones).
Drones have replaced artillery as the new king of the battlefield. They're the weapon responsible for the most battle deaths, knocking artillery off its long-held bloody throne.
The future of warfare will be, for good or for ill, all about drones and, crucially, anti-drone technology. (Not all counter-drone weapons are so high tech.)
America must be able to destroy drones if we want to keep our other advantages. (And the Ukraine war has shown that US weapons systems are very good and much better than Russian, and presumably Chinese, systems. In fact, most of NATO's weapons are superior to Russia's.)
US officials had confirmed the essential claim two days earlier. They said underwater drones had identified more than 100 suspected mines in recent months.
Private contractors then disposed of the devices, the officials said. President Donald Trump warned that American forces would destroy any Iranian vessel caught laying new mines.
Also in the fight: the surface sea drone, the Corsair:
On July 12, 2026, three Saronic Corsair one-way attack uncrewed surface vessels struck a submarine and a ship maintenance facility at Iran's Bandar Abbas Naval Base, in what U.S. Central Command described as the first American combat employment of sea drones.
The strike settled a question this profile left open in June, when the Corsair's offensive role existed in acquisition documents and company material with no combat instance behind it. It settled much less about the platform. The approach was reported as low-speed and uncontested, the launch point, transit distance and warhead were never disclosed, and the released video ends at the explosions.
Thirty-four days earlier the same vessel class had recovered two downed Army aviators near the Strait of Hormuz. Behind both events sits a company that has since selected Brownsville, Texas for a shipyard costing more than $3 billion, launched its first 52-foot Mirage, and carries a $9.25 billion valuation against roughly $200 million in estimated 2025 revenue.
federal judge in New York has vacated a Trump administration policy that suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration deemed likely to require public assistance in the United States.
U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, set aside the policy Friday as "contrary to law and in excess of statutory authority."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio exceeded his authority by issuing the policy, which "runs afoul" of the Immigration and Nationality Act by mandating "the refusal of visas to eligible applicants without any basis in law," the judge ruled.
Judge says power lies with consular officers
Vargas said the policy also undermines the congressional requirement that puts consular officers at the forefront of any visa decision.
So the Trump Administration goes to Plan B: Stop all immigrant visas while they teach consular staff to vet the living hell out of applicants.
The Trump administration has paused immigrant visa appointments worldwide to carry out "in-depth training" for consular officers to screen out foreign applicants at risk of taking advantage of U.S. public assistance.
...
"A more prosperous American means ensuring that visa applicants are not likely to become a public charge, as defined under U.S. law and regulation, and not likely to become dependent on U.S. public benefits reserved for qualified Americans in need," a State Department spokesperson told The Hill in an email Wednesday.
The spokesperson said that a global, in-depth training initiative was launched in early August at all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide and that "appointments for visa and services will be adjusted."
"Whenever there are changes to visa interview appointments, embassies and consulates communicate any changes directly to visa applicants," the spokesperson said.
The pause on visa applications coincides with Trump's hard-line tack on immigration, where the administration has boasted about revoking more than 175,000 visas from individuals it said had violated the terms by committing criminal offenses, but that largely relied on encounters with law enforcement. The administration announced on Monday it was working to revoke short-term visas from individuals who used them to enter the U.S. and then file asylum claims, with some reports claiming the administration has a goal of canceling 200,000 visas.
The administration has also prioritized revoking visas and permanent residency, or green cards, from people who it deems are a threat to U.S. national security, but advocates say officials are targeting people over protected free speech like political opinions and attending pro-Palestinian protests.
"You would not believe what I saw in Silicon Valley. The H-1B abuse is insane. It is obviously a scam to replace US workers with, basically, slave labor that can’t ever escape." pic.twitter.com/SU8xZAoLuD
X Safety Team: We Have Uncovered 200,000 Bots and Fake Accounts Created by Chinese Intelligence to Propagandize Against Data Farms
—Disinformation Expert Ace
...so that China can win the AI race because the US just quit it.
Global Government Affairs
@GlobalAffairs
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:
We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.
These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense.
We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.
AG
@AGHamilton29
Keep this in mind when you see posts with tens of thousands of likes that happen to fit with the information war positions of certain adversaries.
You think this is the only CCP bot farm? Any idea how many Iranian/Pakistani/Russian active bot farms currently exist on here and other platforms?
ZitoSalena
@ZitoSalena
Done right this is an industry that won't just remake blue-collar workers lives, it will also remake communities that have been on their knees for 40 years.
Always be curious. Always be skeptical. If something does a 180 & politicians are suddenly demonizing it in a short period time you have to ask yourself why? As I said yesterday, there's always bad actors in everything we do. But an entire industry?
We have all seen this playbook before.
Yes, we saw Russia paying "environmental groups" in the US to block fracking so that the price of Russian crude would remain high. We never saw the left-wing media, so keen to discover connections between Trump and Russia, note that Democrats were embracing a RUSSIAN AGENT propaganda effort.
And of course, it's Democrats doing the bidding of the Chinese communist government, banning data farms and pushing legislation to limit them, but you will never -- NEVER -- see a single media story about Democrats being CHINESE AGENTS under the control of Xi.
Two of the propaganda posts below, posted by bots with American-sounding names.
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:
We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate… pic.twitter.com/Mj0SqerdlH
— Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) August 28, 2026
In related Real Communism Has Never Been Tried news, immigrant bodega owners sued the communist jihadi Mamdani over his "free" grocery stores -- and, entirely coincidentally, started getting hit with city fines.
Members of an immigrant business group that has spoken out against Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plans for government-owned supermarkets lately have been getting slapped with fines from the city's Sanitation Department -- and some say it looks like a case of retaliation.
Diana Larrazabal, who owns flower and gift shop Aroma D' Angel at 304 E. 116th St., said shops including hers in recent months have received a slew of citations from the New York City Department of Sanitation for garbage that isn't even theirs.
Her flower and gift shop was dinged with fines three times this year -- most recently for $350 in May. Many of her Spanish-speaking neighbors who are not bilingual lean on her to help them navigate the city's red tape, she said, adding that they also are forking over hundreds of dollars in fines.
"It's definitely more frequent," Larrazabal said at a Wednesday press conference held by the Multicultural Business Coalition -- which sued the mayor and the city on Monday over the city-owned supermarket strategy over fears it will pose unfair competition to their stores.
The coalition's chairman, Frank Garcia, says the fines ramped up about two weeks ago when the group began pounding the pavement to speak with local business owners to get support for its suit.
"When we started going door to door two weeks ago, that's when the fines started," Garcia told The Post, saying some have been served with penalties as stiff as $1,000. "The owners don't speak English."
THE MORNING RANT: “Polite conservatism” didn’t put woke corporations on the defensive - conservative activists did; This time the target is the Big Four Accounting Firms
Many of these same conservative AGs have also been involved in the battle against the giant investment banks’ ESG policies, in which those companies betrayed their fiduciary duty with customers’ securities entrusted to them. Vanguard has already capitulated, as I documented here, and BlackRock and State Street are now playing defense.
Robby Starbuck has famously made himself the most feared journalist among C-Suite denizens. Mr. Starbuck caused a management crisis at Tractor Supply when he revealed the depth and vulgarity of its DEI/ESG programs. Facing a Bud Light-level existential crisis, the company soon made a very public repudiation of those practices. By continuing to target corporate DEI/ESG at corporations with a broad, middle-American customer base, all it takes now is a call from Mr. Starbuck to get them to start backtracking. The companies who publicly repudiated their prior DEI/ESG policies thanks to Mr. Starbuck’s activism include McDonald’s, Walmart, Boeing, Lowe’s, John Deere, Ford, Jack Daniels, and many others.
Those companies never would have retreated from pushing the pathologies of the left under the legacy conservative mindset that was worshipful of corporations while also sniffing “we don’t do boycotts.” Well, the threat of consumer boycotts is what it took to make corporate CEOs more afraid of its regular consumers than of the radical left they were kowtowing to.
Circling back to the Attorney Generals’ lawsuit against The Big Four accounting firms, here is a link to the actual letter. It is long, but the Conclusion captures the essence of it:
The Big Four’s climate commitments…conflict with core professional accounting standards of materiality, neutrality, and error avoidance. These commitments create an appearance that the Big Four have agreed to compromise their independence in favor of pursuing climate-related goals external to the audit. The Big Four’s climate commitments also create potential conflicts of interest that may violate the duties of integrity and objectivity by imposing climate-related disclosure obligations that benefit the Big Four at the expense of their clients. Furthermore, the Big Four’s advertising about their independence, integrity, and objectivity, without disclosure of their climate-activist commitments and actions to impose additional regulatory burdens on their customers, may constitute deceptive and unfair acts and practices under state law.
For now, the process is the punishment by the AGs. Each of the four accounting firms must reply to 32 questions and requests, which will require massive documentation and retrieval of historical corporate records. Here are just a couple of examples of what the woke accountants must provide:
4. Provide copies of all training materials and written guidance for auditors that were created, issued, provided, or used by your firm since 2020 that are related to climate-related disclosures and reporting in company statements, including (a) all documents related to the materiality or lack of materiality of climate-related information, and (b) all documents related to any International Sustainability Board standards or to the Bulletin.
10. Is it your firm’s position that disclosures of climate-related risks are material for every company you audit or provide assurances for? Describe your approach to determining whether such disclosures are material. Provide copies of all internal policies, guidance, and similar documents you have created, issued, or provided since 2020 to guide your auditors on this issue.
Each of the four accounting firms must also specifically explain how they can advertise to customers that they are independent, while simultaneously pledging fealty to global agencies committed to an anti-carbon climate agenda that is harmful to many of the Big Four’s clients.
Corporate America and the left-wing executives (they/them) who were so willing to shove cultural communism down our throats are in the uncomfortable position of defending their indefensible actions. Polite conservatives did not make this happen. It was activists like Robby Starbuck and conservative Attorney Generals. Much gratitude to them.
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Other Stuff I’m Writing About
My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “The $40 Trillion National Debt and the ‘Budget Hawk’ Ruse That Led to MAGA” discusses how false-flag conservative “budget hawks” used the “budget crisis” for decades as a reason to never advance other conservative agenda items, while never actually cutting spending either.
Even worse, the “fiscally conservative budget hawks” wouldn’t even cut obvious targets of waste, such as aid to foreign despots or funding for NPR, because those appropriations were just “drops in the ocean.” However, if there was ever “drop in the ocean” spending that was a priority to the conservative base, the budget hawks suddenly found religion, and would oppose it as an unacceptable increase in federal spending. Five billion dollars for a border barrier was a “budget buster,” while at the same time Congress was still appropriating billions of dollars to the PLO, and hundreds of millions of dollars to abortion mills.
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: “The $40 Trillion National Debt and the ‘Budget Hawk’ Ruse that Led to MAGA”https://t.co/cSmZMbs6dH
As the unofficial Opry correspondent and country music historian for this blog, and as a resident of East Tennessee, Dolly Parton’s death was an absolute sucker punch, both personally and to this part of the country.
There have been so many great tributes regarding Dolly’s charitable heart, loving nature, and amazing book of songs she wrote. I can’t add anything to those great tributes.
The only original thought I have to add to the Dolly discussion is that she also consistently made songs better when she sang tunes written by other superstars. Johnny Cash may have written “I Still Miss Someone” but Dolly perfected it.
Here is Dolly doing the best version I’ve ever heard of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”
Early Renaissance? Late Middle Ages? Who knows, but it is this sort of art that shows us the bridge between the two-dimensional art of the pre-Renaissance world and the glories of the Renaissance.
Possibly because were it not for dumb luck I'd have been at Ground Zero just as the planes struck, or that I lost a schoolmate who was stuck on the 108th floor of the South Tower, or that my wife who at the time was barely a mile away and just recently was diagnosed with scar tissue on her lung due to asbestos exposure, or merely the fact that I'm just a sane, thinking, feeling rational human being?! In any case I rather expected a move like this to have come from the BBC, years ago already. But then again, after all, Canada has declared war on us, so what can you expect?!
Vive Lake OntarioAmerica!!!
Of course the American — that is the ANTI-American Left and its epicenter in and of the Democrat Party have always been at war with America as founded. Just take a look at the links and you'll note a veritable Borgasmord or in this case morgue (to sort of quote my old friend and 1970s icon Mason Reese) of hypocrites, criminals, racists, antisemites, perverts, pedophiles and terrorists. So to hell with Canada we're up to our necks that the aforementioned's allies of convenience, the head chopping, brother-boffing/clitoris clipping Muslims are eager ready and able to chop off. Speaking of brother-boffers, is he his own uncle?!...
Police executed a search warrant Tuesday night at a Minneapolis apartment reportedly shared by Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s adult son and a man arrested earlier that day on a weapons charge, according to multiple law enforcement sources. . . The raid adds another unusual chapter to the political and personal controversies surrounding Omar and her family. Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, has become a prominent far-left activist. Hirsi was arrested and suspended from Barnard College in 2024 after participating in an anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University. Omar publicly praised her daughter after the arrest, saying she was “enormously proud” of Hirsi for standing up for her political beliefs.
The State Department on Wednesday announced that a foreign tech group provides online infrastructure to U.S. domestic terror groups to conduct violence across the country. The department formally recognized Italy-based Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group and subsequently sanctioned it.
According to the State Department, Autistici/Inventati, or the A/I Collective, is a “hacker cell that provides far-left extremists with encrypted communications, calls, and web-hosting services — all concealed from law enforcement. The A/I Collective is a central node in the far-left’s war on our civilization.”
Yes, the State Dept. is for sure going after Leftists abroad who destabilize our allies, and are beside themselves as the Donroe Doctrine initiates a reverse Domino effect as one by one seemingly intractable and perpetual Socialist nations are rejecting socialism for freer and more truly little "d" democratic in the truest sense of the word governments, while we here at home seem to be embracing it. Well, if one pallet of bricks is prevented from being delivered to a center city business district in the middle of the night then bravo. Because you just know they're itching to recreate Firestorm 2 Dresden boogaloo!
As you know by this point, Minnesota has been showing absolute fury against ICE agents. Ever since President Donald Trump ordered agents to enter the state to arrest violent illegal immigrants, Mayor Jacob Frey has been pushing back, riling up his citizens to angrily protest their every move. . . arlier this year, an arrest warrant was issued for ICE officer Christian Castro by the state, who was taken into custody shortly thereafter in Cameron County, Texas. He was formally charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime after being accused of firing into a Minneapolis home and striking a Venezuelan national’s leg. Now, this is an incident that could’ve easily been put under investigation by the Department of Justice, but Minnesota decided to push the matter into overdrive. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had been demanding the extradition of Castro to the state, and even making such demands as public as possible to look good for his audience. . . “I don’t trust Tim Walz on anything,” Abbott noted last week, a statement I very much agree with. “While they’re making demands, I have a demand of my own: it’s time for Minnesota to step up and repay the United States of America and Americans for all the fraud that they’ve committed in their state through federal programs.”
Nothing like a good riot in Minnesota to push El-Sayed over the finish line one state away in Michigan (not that with Whitmer and Benson running the elections there, the fix isn't in already)
Or delude themselves into thinking Texas will go insane and elect that freakazoid Talarico!
But be all that as it may, I bid you all to have a great weekend.
Shortly after arresting the group of illegal aliens, agents checked immigration and criminal databases to determine if any members of the group had prior arrests for immigration or criminal offenses. Agents quickly determined 52-year-old Alexis Suarez-Trejos, a Cuban national, is a registered sex offender in the state of Nevada. EXCLUSIVE: Deported Cuban Child Predator Busted While Crossing Texas Border
A decision by the United Arab Emirates to suspend trade relations with Iran last week kick-started the White House’s latest attempt to isolate Tehran into submission. Iran entered the war with its foreign commerce concentrated among a relatively small group of countries, leaving it with fewer places to turn now. Iran scrambles to sustain trade as US threatens to sanction countries that refuse to break ties
If President Trump goes ahead with the designation, it will result in lifetime bans on the group’s founders and supporters entering the U.S. It will also freeze the group’s U.S. assets, such as bank accounts and properties. The new designation also means that U.S. citizens will be prohibited from engaging with Palestine Action, including donating money, goods, or services. This designation reflects a similar ban imposed in Britain last year. Trump Moves to Designate ‘Palestine Action’ Network as Global Terrorists.
That is the institutional world the critics of QE warned about. It’s something that concerned Warsh himself when he was a Fed governor two decades or so ago. The Fed performed fiscal-style functions for so long that the financial commentariat forgot where those functions originally belonged. The confusion over Bessent’s buybacks may be one of QE’s most enduring legacies. Warsh and Bessent Are Not at Odds Over the Bond Market
A New York State teachers’ union president invokes old arguments against religious education to derail a scholarship program that would cost the state nothing. Private Schools Are No Threat to Democracy
After a decade of trying to strong-arm Americans into accepting terms like "Latinx" and "intersectionality," some Democrats have decided that their nomenclature needs a new coat of paint. As 2028 looms in the background, some contenders, real and would-be, are trying to lead the charge to renormalize the Democrat Party. For Midterms, Democrats Will Make an Extreme Effort to Sound Like Normal People
But a new Echelon Insights poll raises the question: Just how inevitable is this menacing Blue Wave? According to the survey, Democrats’ once impressive enthusiasm gap is now nearly nonexistent. It’s the socialism, stupid: The DSA may cost Dems their blue wave
The announcement has heightened speculation about Ocasio-Cortez’s Presidential ambitions. Rejoining the DSA, whose most prominent elected official is currently New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, allows Ocasio-Cortez to position herself as an outsider and challenge the Democrat establishment. TItty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez Rejoins Democratic Socialists of America.
The ruling represents a procedural victory for Georgia Republicans, as it allows the redistricted maps to stand, at least for now. It also sets a higher legal bar for future challenges to redistricted maps, requiring plaintiffs to meet stricter standards under the new Callais framework. Blow to Dems as Federal Appeals Court Overturns Ruling Against Redistricting.
But like the United States, Colombia has its fair share of leftist loons who can't accept that they lost an election, and one of them is named Viviana Marín. She's currently the political secretary of the Communist Youth of Colombia (JUCO), a group connected to the Communist Party of Colombia. State Department to Communist Activist: You Won't Be Vacationing In the U.S.
The perpetrator has since been identified by the BBC and several outlets as a 26 year-old man born in Russia. The man was arrested about 12 miles away from the town of Ouistreham after he fled from the scene. France: Two Dead, 10 Injured After Man Rams Car Into Crowd in Caen
I say poppycock! I also say that these decisions by SpaceX and Musk are not simple business decisions designed to help SpaceX. They are also designed to jump start the rest of the American rocket industry, which in turn will help the payload industry. Musk’s other unstated reasons for shutting down Falcon 9 in Florida
These features are unique to Mars, and though they resemble avalanches, they produce no change in the topography, have no debris pile at their base, and more resemble stains that appear suddenly and then fade with time. Slope streaks in the Martian southern cratered highlands
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The ruling is a significant setback for Texas Republicans’ efforts to shield children from exposure to sexually oriented performances, and could limit similar legislation in other states if judges continue to claim such laws are overly broad. Federal Judge Strikes Down Law Protecting Children from Sexualized Drag Shows.
Thanks to professional carnivore Sama Hoole, I just learned that kale only "became a superfood because a publicist in New York invented a trade association that did not exist."... Devoid of the iron and protein Melissa thought we were getting and with all the chewability of a truck tire, kale is just celery for masochists. As soon as this column goes live, I'll forward it to my lovely bride with the note: "Never again." The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable (No this isn't a Joe Biden story - jjs)
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Text files. These fuckers are talking about text files. Not programs of any kind.
Now there is a real problem in that the text files tell other AI agents to do dumb shit, and the AI agents promptly do it, because they are being run by dumb people.
Also the first comment on that article calls it out as AI slop itself, which I agree with. Ars Technica has been caught with their pants down and on fire that way before.
...weather permitting, the full Moon over the Americas is going to do something it will not do again for more than two years. Beginning in the late evening of Thursday, August 27, Earth’s shadow will creep across the lunar surface until, a little after midnight on the East Coast, 96 percent of the Moon sits inside it, glowing a dim, rusty copper with only a bright sliver left along one edge.
Technically it is a partial lunar eclipse. Practically, it is about as close to a total one as a partial can get, and astronomers are calling it the best lunar eclipse anywhere on Earth until New Year’s Eve 2028.
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For viewers in the eastern half of North America, the timeline runs like this. The subtle penumbral shading begins around 9:24 pm Eastern time on the 27th. The real event, the partial phase, starts at 10:34 pm, when the curved edge of Earth’s dark inner shadow, the umbra, takes its first visible bite out of the Moon. The shadow advances for the next hour and a half until maximum eclipse at 12:12 am Eastern, when 96.3 percent of the disk is immersed and the Moon hangs copper-red in the sky. The shadow then slides off, with the partial phase ending at 1:52 am and the whole affair over by 3 am.
Subtract the hours for other zones: maximum comes at 11:12 pm Central, 10:12 pm Mountain, 9:12 pm Pacific. West Coast viewers see the Moon rise with the eclipse already underway, low in the southeastern sky, which is a gift for photographers who want a shadowed Moon hanging over a skyline.
Please share your respective moon-gazing experiences tonight. If you get any good photos, please send them my way - you may see them on a future ONT!
A police chief in Oshkosh, Wisconsin caught Flock lying to his city council, and killed the $8 billion surveillance company's contract less than a day after the council had approved it.
Here's how it happened.
The night before, Oshkosh's council was set to renew its deal with Flock Safety, the license plate camera company backed by a16z and Tiger Global.
One council member asked the Flock rep a plain yes-or-no question. Does this system build a heat map of everywhere a specific car travels over time?
Flock's rep said no.
The council believed him and voted 5 to 2 to renew. By the next morning, Chief Dean Smith's own officers had told him that answer was false.
So he pulled up the system himself. He watched it generate the exact heat map Flock had just sworn it couldn't make.
Then he walked into an emergency meeting and said it out loud: "Because of this misrepresentation, I can no longer recommend Flock."
Understand what a heat map is, because it's the whole trick.
e.g. Ticketing overweight trucks on restricted roads.
Photos at the link
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Dolly Parton will be remembered accurately!
��BREAKING: Netflix has announced DOLLY, a new biographical film chronicling the life and career of country music legend Dolly Parton. pic.twitter.com/VlA6OfAIyK
A two-year legal battle over a dramatic protest against the war on Gaza came to an end on Friday as seven protesters who’d blocked traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge received 30-day sentences and $1,000 fines.
Over two dozen activists halted several lanes of traffic on the bridge on April 15, 2024, six months into Israel’s war in the Palestinian territory that has been widely recognized as a genocide. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins charged 26 of them with crimes. Most were offered diversion, in the form of fines and community service, but Jenkins hit seven protesters with a raft of serious charges, including felony conspiracy.
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After a two-and-a-half-week trial, jurors deadlocked in June over the most serious charges but convicted the protesters on several misdemeanors, including obstructing a thoroughfare, unlawful assembly, and four counts of false imprisonment related to trapped commuters.
Jenkins’ office had considered a new trial on the conspiracy charges, but assistant district attorney Angela Roze announced on Friday that the remaining charges would all be dropped.
Emphasis mine.
Screw you, AP. "Widely recognized"?? Again - screw you. Oh there are links in that article. Go ahead and check them out - if you dare.
The protesters are asshoe, and the AP is asshoe.
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🎥 🇨🇿 At Prague Zoo, polar bears and gorillas nibble on fruit-filled ice cream and roll on ice chips as a second heatwave of the summer reaches its peak, with national temperatures hitting a near-record 41.5 degrees pic.twitter.com/C7hoRQoLbz
Democrats Begin to Worry About Going All-In on the Great Male Hope Hasan Piker
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It wasn't just the Democrats. It was the Democrats of the media, that have spent a year pushing Hasan Piker as "the left's Joe Rogan," claiming he has a "progressive mind in a MAGA body" (true, he has a progressive mind, he's borderline mentally retarded) and running one glamour-shot thrist-trap picture of him after another.
Ludicrous grifter and male gold-digger Ro Khanna also commands you to stop talking about Hasan Piker and Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed:
Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna
Too many demotivated Democrats stayed home in 2016 and 2024. We can't repeat past mistakes. In this upcoming election, we need to:
Quit calling @BernieSanders an "antisemite."
Stop wasting time attacking Hasan Piker instead of Trump's robber baron corruption.
Don't put Israel hawks out of touch with our voters in charge of our Middle East policy.
It is time for a reckoning: are we a party that represents corporate interests and super PACs, or will we represent the American people?
Why is it a waste of time to talk about Hasan Piker? Is he not the Left's Joe Rogan? Is he not the male Twitch Influencer you guys promoted to lead young men to the DSA?
I have been reliably informed, again and again, that he has a progressive mind in a MAGA body. Was I misinformed? If so, who misinformed me, and will they be called to account for their misinformation?
Activist David Hogg on Sunday said he finds recent media focus on left-wing streamer Hasan Piker "kind of weird."
"To be honest with you, I find it kind of weird. Like he's a streamer. This guy is not an elected official, and there's a lot of elected officials out there that are saying incredibly horrible thing[s]," Hogg told left-wing media personality Jack Cocchiarella, discussing the recent national spotlight on Piker.
Hogg added later that he believed "that it's fascinating that people are so obsessed with a streamer that the median voter knows nothing about."
"You know, that's not to diss Hasan, I think he would probably agree with me, generally, that like they don't -- they don't know who he is," Hogg continued.
"And I think it speaks to the fact that a lot of moderates in our party don't have an actual vision that they are fighting for other than the center, because they're constantly repositioning themselves on the political spectrum to say, 'You know, I'm going to be in the middle,' but the middle is always changing," he said. "And instead, what people are looking for is somebody that actually offers a new vision."
Number of people who have said David Hogg has a progressive mind in a MAGA body: Zero. Zero point zero.
By the way: It turns out Abdulrahman El-Sayed's middle name is Mohamed, not Hussein. Sorry to lead you down a crooked path. I blame who I always blame, a commenter for telling me something which I did not then spend a single second checking.
And Jewish female "settlers," of course, deserve to be raped.
Michigan Senate Democratic nominee Abdul el Sayed on Wednesday indicated he would no longer campaign with Hasan Piker after stoking scrutiny for associating with him due to controversial positions the Twitch streamer holds.
Throughout his campaign, el Sayed has repeatedly appeared with Piker, including during campus rallies at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan in April, and at a Detroit event earlier this month. Their relationship has raised eyebrows due to accusations that Piker employs antisemitic rhetoric.
After moving to distance himself from Piker following his primary win on Aug. 5, el Sayed told Semafor on Wednesday evening he has "no plans" to campaign with him. The shift comes roughly two months ahead of the general election, where the Senate hopeful must amass majority support in one of the country's tightest races to clinch a victory over former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers.
A left-wing dark money network funded by the Democratic megadonor George Soros sent voters in Michigan unsolicited mailers resembling a newspaper that falsely identified Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed as a "veteran."
The mailer, from the Michigan Independent--part of a national left-wing organization founded by the Democratic operative David Brock, the American Independent--is designed to look like a nonpartisan local newspaper. Partisan content aimed at propping up Democrats is peppered amid recipes for "Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake" from "The Mitten Kitchen." The partisan content includes a piece on El-Sayed's primary win headlined, "El-Sayed -- veteran, doctor, and former health official -- is Democratic Senate pick." El-Sayed has never served in the military, and while he attended medical school and has described himself as a "physician," he has never been licensed to practice medicine, Politico reported.
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Joe Conason, the president of the Washington, D.C.-based American Independent Foundation, which founded the Michigan Independent and received $500,000 from Soros's Open Society Foundations in 2022, confirmed that the group sent the mailer calling El-Sayed a "veteran." He said the error was a typo rather than an attempt to deceive voters.
"The error occurred when a new headline was written for the print edition," Conason told the Free Beacon. "It was supposed to say that he was a 'veteran doctor and public health official,' ie, 'veteran' modifying those two terms." Asked whether it was accurate to call El-Sayed a "veteran doctor," Conason said, "Well he's been a physician for a long time." When the Free Beacon noted that El-Sayed has never been a licensed physician, Conason said, "Whether he's a physician or not, he's a doctor."
We didn't mean to tell that lie, we meant to tell this other lie.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has repeatedly, falsely called himself a doctor and a physician. He did get a medical degree, but seems to have gotten it only for purposes of entering the corrupt health bureaucracy. He was never licensed as an actual physician and never treated a patient.
As the official in charge of Michigan's highest-kill dog shelter, he did oversee the euthanasia of thousands of dogs, though. Does that count? Grok AI answer: No, that does not count.
CNN: Why can’t I ask you about Hasan Piker when he has campaigned with Abdul El-Sayed?
DINGELL: “Everywhere I have gone for the last ten days, someone throws a camera in my face, or a phone in my face, and asks me questions…” pic.twitter.com/XHFmRr30zT
The Woke Warrior Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed wants to know why politicians should be forced to "denounce" their key surrogates' speech.
Abdul El-Sayed on Hasan Piker:
"Here’s this one thing that Hasan said. Do you now condemn him and everything he stands for? And I’m like, in what fucking world does the world work this way?"
The same media who spent years trying to tie President Trump to David Duke, are ignoring Abdul El-Sayed's connections to terrorist sympathizer Hasan Piker.
Lisa Marie Boothe calls out the media over their hypocritical coverage of President Trump vs. Abdul El-Sayed. pic.twitter.com/QvKRhz61N2
Police raid home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son as guns and ammunition are seized
Police in Minneapolis reportedly raided the apartment of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son and seized firearms before arresting his roommate.
Law enforcement sources told Alpha News that a search warrant was carried out at the home of Omar's son Adnan on Tuesday night.
According to the outlet, they recovered guns and ammunition from the home and arrested his roommate Abdulrahman Abdi, 22.
Earlier that day, the city's police department said in a statement to the Daily Mail that they conducted a traffic stop and cited Abdi for no proof of insurance and no license.
The department said that Abdi was released at the scene and the vehicle was in the process of being impounded when a firearm was found inside.
Officers later tracked Abdi to an address on Marquette Ave where they said they arrested him 'without incident.'
Abdi was later booked into Hennepin County Jail on a weapons charge before being released on Wednesday night, records show.
According to court records seen by the Daily Mail, Abdi has been convicted ten times in the past, most of the incidents have been misdemeanors.
"Most." But also, he's been convicted, not charged but convicted, of ten different offenses and he's only 22.
Last year he was found to have been speeding and driving despite having his license revoked for a previous offense.
In 2024 he was convicted of a felony after officers reported him traveling at 108 miles per hour in St. Paul.
A statement of probable cause said he was behind the wheel of a Jeep Grand Cherokee and was speeding alongside a Dodge Durango.
He pleaded guilty to fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle and was sentenced to one day inside Dakota County Jail.
One day for fleeing a cop in a motor vehicle? Taking a cop on a high speed chase that could easily result in a kid being run down?
I feel very Culturally Enriched. Having this person in my country somehow increases the GDP and gives me a more complete and cosmopolitan life.
Donald Trump's administration is facing questions over whether it is using Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to "surveil political opponents" after after an investigative agent was apparently stationed outside Democratic representative Ilhan Omar's monthly town hall meeting in Richfield, Minnesota.
After the incident, Omar demanded the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) clarify whether Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents have been used to monitor "any other activity" involving "local, state, or federal officials" in the state.
In a letter to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), an arm of ICE, the congresswoman said an agent claiming to be conducting an undercover drug operation was parked outside the community center where she was holding an event last Thursday, without prior coordination with local law enforcement.
A federal agency's refusal to release records related to longstanding immigration fraud allegations involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is fueling new questions about whether federal enforcement proceedings could be underway.
News organizations have sought records related to allegations surrounding Omar's 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Critics have long alleged the marriage was part of an immigration fraud scheme and have claimed Elmi was Omar's brother.
Omar has denied those allegations, which have not been proven.
According to the response discussed on The National News Desk, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to release requested records under the Freedom of Information Act, commonly known as FOIA, citing concerns that disclosure could interfere with "enforcement proceedings."
Washington insider Armstrong Williams said the language deserves attention but cautioned against treating the exemption itself as proof of wrongdoing.
Federal agencies can withhold certain law enforcement records under FOIA when releasing them could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. Such a response does not, by itself, establish that Omar is the subject of an investigation or that the underlying allegations are true.
Asked whether the response could indicate an active federal investigation involving a sitting member of Congress, Williams said those associated with the matters under scrutiny should take the situation seriously, while stopping short of drawing a definitive conclusion.
"I think Omar and anyone associated with her in these programs have cause for great concern," Williams said. "I'll leave it at that."
Podcast: Dolly Parton...an American classic, Michigan's El Sayed is part of our future destruction, More Global Warming nonsense, mail-in balloting restrictions, Darline Graham? Get rid of family dynasties...and more!
1977 interview shows that Barbara Walters has always been a seaward and Dolly Parton always had "country class" Walters actually asks Dolly Parton if she knows that people think she's a joke. This because Walters can't get over the fact that a show-woman has 1, big breasts, and 2, dresses a bit outrageously because, get this, she's an entertainer. A stage performer. You know, someone people pay money to see live and expect them to put on a show. She never would attack Liberace for wearing glitter-tuxedos. But she's mad that Dolly Parton makes Barbara Walters look bad through association (by being a woman). Babs, you wish people associated the two of you. Believe me, we can tell the difference.
Dude trolls a city council meeting about permitting yet another mosque by promising the mosque will destroy the Constitution "All women who are overweight or obese will have to wear burka. 10,000 steps per day, low carb."
Podcast: Will Cuba fall without a fight? More Iran confusion, gun rights for felons isn't a crazy idea, wetbacks are voting! And are data centers of the devil? Nope!
Months ago, I reported that the final Zodiac cypher had been cracked and the name of the killer revealed. And the name of the killer turned out to be someone suspected in the unsolved Black Dahlia murder. The general tone of my mention of this was "serious you guys, this is real."
Well, it's not real. It's total bullshit.
Sorry about that. I did two things: 1, I bought into something, a conspiracy theory really, because it was new and exciting. And 2, I allowed a self-declared "expert" to snow me over with his "expert" claims about solving ciphers, an alleged expertise I could not challenge because I know practically nothing about codebreaking. I remember being similarly swindled by self-declared "experts" babbling about "chromatic aberrations." (Although I didn't really buy into that, but I found it "interesting" and I wasn't strongly skeptical about it. Hey they said they're "experts," they must know that they're talking about, right?)
I screwed up. It won't be the last time, I'm sure.
Podcast: In Wisconsin, the Dems steal an election from themselves, abortion is cheered in Massachusetts, Spain gets what it voted for, the economy is humming, and more!
