Russia Sets Blaze to a 1000-Year-Old Ukrainian Monestary with a Missile, So Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Attack at... Moscow
—Disinformation Expert Ace
That escalated quickly. That really took a jump.
Ukraine hit a major Moscow oil refinery for a second time in a week and disrupted commercial flights at Moscow airports in one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia's all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, Russian officials said Thursday.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attacks retaliation for a strike that damaged a historic monastery in Kyiv this week, and he said "Moscow will burn" if the Russian attacks continue.
"We don't want this war, we never did, and everyone knows it, and our partners know it," Zelenskiy said in a voice message sent to reporters on a WhatsApp group. "But if Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn."
I was wondering why Ukraine would launch such a provocative attack at Moscow, especially since they seem to actually be winning this war now. Russia's spring offensive resulted in a net loss of territory and a lot of loss of men and materiel. Ukraine is now pummeling Russian trucks and bridges with drone attacks. Attacking logistics seems to me -- and unlike a woke white woman, I'm not an expert -- a second-order priority in war, so the fact that Ukraine is now devoting so many drones and artillery to blowing up Russia's capacity to move food, fuel, and ammunition suggests to me they have their first-order priorities reasonably secured.
(I don't mean to say logistics aren't important. I've heard the adage "Amateurs think about strategy, professionals think about logistics." I just mean that if Russia were pinning down and killing Ukrainian soldiers and tanks, the first order priority would be attacking those enemy forces to spare the men. If Ukraine can spare so many drones to blow up locomotives and trucks, I assume they are not being killed by the hundreds at the moment.)
Putin will use -- or will try to use -- a nuke rather than lose. Why give him a justification for using one?
But I guess they felt they had to respond in kind to the frequent missile and drone attacks on Kyiv.
"The main thing is that the people of Russia begin to feel that it is one man, Putin, who is waging this war, while ordinary people pay the price for everything," he said.
The attack came hours after Zelenskyy said he had held "an important coordination call" with President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron that may "bring about significant change."
Some video of the dueling strikes:
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CNN: There's a Big Patriotism Gap Between the Normies and the Mentally Ill Communists
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Really?
Townhall.com @townhallcom🚨CNN STUNNED as bombshell poll reveals that Democrats HATE America!
- Only 27% of Democrats will fly the American flag on July 4th, compared to 64% of Republicans
- Only 29% of Democrats are extremely proud to be an American, compared to 90% of Republicans
- Only 24% of Democrats want to celebrate America as a priority on July 4th, compared to 65% of Republicans
More quotes from the report from Overton:
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WHOA: CNN's own data analyst proves how Democrats have become the party of the unpatriotic.
He uses "whoa" in the same nontraditional way the last reporters used "shockingly."
Meanwhile, Republican admiration for America has stayed exactly the same for 25 years.CNN: "Look at how we have an increasing polarization on this issue."
"Will display the flag on July 4th, the American flag."
"Back in July 2001, look at this. You had 68% of Republicans, 65% of Democrats saying that they would in fact display the flag on July 4th."
"You come over to this side of the screen, Republicans are basically where they were 25 years ago..."
"But look at that Democratic percentage. Absolutely PLUMMETING!"
"Just 27% of Democrats say they will in fact display the flag on July 4th."
"What about this idea, are you proud to be an American?"
"Extremely or very proud to be an American."
"Again, look at this divide, a growing divide on this question."
"Back in January of 2001, 90% of Republicans, 85% of Democrats."
"You come over to this side of the screen in 2026, look at this!"
"Again, the Democrat percentage absolutely plummets to just 29% of Democrats say they're extremely or very proud to be an American."
"That Republican percentage, the EXACT same. 90 and 90."
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Democrats, Migrants and Other Criminals Continue Looting America Blind
—Disinformation Expert Ace
But fortunately, the Trump Administration is busting them.
A Pakistani "community leader" feted by communist jihadi Theater Kid Zohran Mamdani stole $38 million of our money in an "adult day care" scam.
The first hint it was a scam should have been that it was an "adult day care."
This was another Democrat agenda item, and of course they insisted there be practically no verification whatsoever for billing American taxpayers for services not rendered.
Alleged $38M adult day care scam busted in Brooklyn -- snaring Pakistani community leaders who cozied up to Dems
A prominent Pakistani-American businessman who spent years cozying up to powerful Democrats stands accused of being part of a $38 million Medicaid scam.Civic leader and well-known Brooklyn Community Board 13 member Pervez Siddiqui, 78, was arrested Monday along with seven co-conspirators.
They are alleged to have run a large-scale Medicaid kickback and false-billing scheme through two social adult day care (SADC) centers in Brooklyn: APNA Adult Daycare and Ashiana Social Adult Daycare.
The scam ran from 2019 through December 2025, feds allege, with seniors being signed up for day cares that they rarely or never attended, then getting a cut of the Medicaid payment.
"Marketers are going around looking for the Medicaid card. They stop people on the street, at bus stops. They go into doctors' offices. They go into NYCHA [government housing] where they know people are low-income. They ask, 'Do you have a Medicaid card?'" a source with knowledge of the investigation told The Post.
Siddiqui, who owns around 15 pharmacies in New Jersey, is prolific in local political circles and a regular donor to Democratic campaigns, sometimes shelling out over $10,000 a pop to local candidates, records show. And through his ties to another group, he scored an intimate sit-down with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in December 2025, pictures obtained by The Post show.
The other defendants are Who's Who of Pakistani Dick Tracy villains.
Shazia Bibi (a.k.a. Shazia Wattoo), Abdul Aziz, Shair Ali, and their recruiter co-defendants Zebun Ahmed, Josna Begum, Saira Khatoon, and Atia Shahnaz were also involved, according to the unsealed indictment against them.The gang paid cash bribes directly to New York Medicaid recipients to enroll at APNA or Ashiana -- even though most never attended their facilities -- and paid the recruiters kickbacks to refer patients, while submitting $38 million in fraudulent claims to New York Medicaid for services that were never provided, according to the indictment.
Remember when the left was so upset in the 80s and 90s at the fable that Wall Street traders were stealing millions with just a pen?
They're not upset at all by this brazen theft by paperwork.
For handing over their Medicaid card, seniors at APNA or their family members were getting $500 a month in kickbacks for day care services that were never provided, according to the source.
Below: The reporters here have completely different sense of the word "shockingly" than I do, or than you do.
Shockingly, the indictment says the payments were made even when enrollees were not in the US. The sources claimed many had even gone to live in other countries while they or their family members collected Medicaid kickback money."The patient is in Pakistan, they're in Morocco. They're not even in this country," the source claimed.
I don't think I've ever been less shocked.
I'll tell you what's shocking: The main man crow came to the window and looked at me, to let me know I could put out food. I had saved a steakbone just to cut off the bits of meat (orts, in crossword clue vocabulary) and give it to him.
I did, but he flew off and did not return.
It's actual steak, for crying out loud!
Now that is shocking.
Here's what's not shocking: more illegal immigrants are stealing American taxpayer money in another blue sanctuary jurisdiction controlled by Democrats.
This one, Massachusetts.
11 suspected illegal immigrants among 15 arrested in $1.4M benefits fraud crackdown in Massachusetts, DOJ says One defendant allegedly carried out more than $546,000 in fraud involving MassHealth, Social Security and housing assistance
A nationwide welfare fraud crackdown reached Massachusetts this week as federal authorities announced the arrests of 15 people -- 11 of them illegal immigrants -- accused of stealing more than $1.4 million in American taxpayer-funded benefits....
"Alarmingly, 11 of the 15 charged defendants are suspected illegal aliens, some of whom assumed stolen identities to steal these taxpayer-funded benefits and avoid detection," Acting Assistant Attorney General Colin MacDonald said during a Thursday press conference in Boston....
MacDonald argued the alleged crimes did more than drain public coffers, saying some Americans were effectively locked out of programs intended to help them because their identities had already been used by fraudsters.
"In some cases, the victims of these crimes, the rightful beneficiaries of these funds, could not access benefits they needed," MacDonald said. "American citizens were boxed out of these programs because illegal aliens took their names to then take their money."
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Federal officials said the investigation was conducted with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations and multiple inspector general offices. They vowed additional arrests and charges are forthcoming as investigators continue examining benefit programs for fraud.
"The further we look, the more fraud we find," MacDonald said. "And this is just the beginning of our work."
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Obama Officially Opens the Ozymandias Presidential Center As Subcontractors Complain That He Didn't Pay Them and Left Them With Millions in Worthless IOUs
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Fox News @FoxNews4h
"They are scared to death about talking about it."The Obama Presidential Center was pitched as a legacy project that would help lift minority-owned and local businesses.
Now, several subcontractors say the project has left them saddled with massive unpaid costs.
One plumbing contractor says he's nearly $4 million in the red: "That is a hole that no subcontractor, small business can survive."
A Fox News Digital investigation found multiple construction firms reporting losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions, with many of the complaints coming from the very firms the Center claims it wanted to support.
Subcontractors say they're owed millions, face financial ruin, after helping build Obama Presidential Center Adamson Plumbing owner Mike Owen says his company is owed nearly $4M on the Chicago projectCHICAGO -- The Obama Presidential Center was billed as a lasting legacy to former President Barack Obama, and its construction was touted as an ambitious model built with aggressive goals for minority-owned and local businesses.
But now, some of the very subcontractors who helped build the 19.3-acre campus on Chicago's South Side say they are facing financial ruin as they race to recover millions of dollars they claim remain unpaid ahead of the center's grand opening Friday. Overall construction costs were reported to be $830 million in 2021, and have likely climbed past the $1 billion mark.
A Fox News Digital investigation identified multiple construction firms claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions. The allegations cut against one of the Center's defining goals: helping minority-owned businesses and local contractors grow through one of Chicago's highest-profile construction projects. Several of the complaints reviewed by Fox News Digital come from firms that were supposed to benefit from that mission.
Among them is Adamson Plumbing, whose owner Mike Owen says is nearly $4 million in the red after years of work on the project.
"That is a hole that no subcontractor, small business can survive," Owen said.
Subcontractor owners interviewed by Fox News Digital described what they characterized as a chaotic work environment marked by repeated design changes, rework, scheduling disruptions, extensive oversight and years-long compensation disputes that still remain unresolved.
A project overseen by communist Theater Kids was chaotic and subject to constantly-shifting plans? I don't believe it.
BTW, totally unrelated: LucasFilm fired more directors than actually oversaw completed projects and "announced" more than a dozen movies that never filmed.
Several also described what they viewed as a wall of silence surrounding the project, with some declining to speak publicly or requesting anonymity because of confidentiality agreements or fears of professional retaliation.
The allegations emerge days after a Fox News Digital investigation reported that the Obama Foundation's reserve fund -- originally promoted as a $470 million financial safeguard intended to help protect taxpayers if the project encountered financial trouble -- remains funded at roughly $1 million.
Are you telling me that communists overpromise and underdeliver, are shit with accounting, and promise "the workers" that they'll be millionaires in the New Soviet Era but then confiscate the workers' wealth to build themselves villas and monuments that would make Cresus blush?
I shan't believe it. I simply shannot.
Speaking of communist lies: One of Ozymandias's floozies announced that his presidential center was built on stolen land but, get this, did not go on to say they were returning it.
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Thune: Some "Republican" Senators Hate Trump Too Much to Protect the Integrity of Federal Elections and Do What Their Constituents Elected Them to Do
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Conservatives and normies have two main complaints about RINOs. They are highly-interrelated and mutually reinforcing.
1, Although almost all senators are absurd puffed-up egotists, RINOs in particular believe they exist to instruct, scold, discipline, and guide their voters, who they consider their inferiors. We elect them to be our Servants, but they conceive themselves as our Masters.
2, Conservatives and true patriots understand that they are fighting a political war on two fronts: the external one, against the nominal Democrat Party and all of its satellites and proxies, including the media, the universities, and NGOs, and the must more insidious internal opposition -- liberal "Republicans" who see their role as a necessary check on the wild demands of crazy and racist Republicans. In every single battle, we know we march with half of "our party" siding with the enemy, passing them information secretly, and ready to defect to them at a moment's notice.
RINOs hate us for calling them RINOs. They claim it's a lie and a slur.
But at every turn, they prove us to be 100% correct about them. They are liars and, worse yet, traitors. Traitors who think they're patriots for selling out the "wrong side" to help "the right side of history."
When a leftist tells you you're lying about DEI discriminating against white males, they of course don't really mean you're lying about the facts. They mean you're "lying" about the valence of the facts, the perception of the facts -- they think you should agree that discriminating against white males is a good thing, but because you don't agree and because admitting that would be politically disadvantageous, they claim you're lying about the simple fact of it.
Similarly, RINOs know that what we say about them is actually true. But they're liberals -- when they say something is "false," what they really mean is Yes it's true you Racists, but it's a good thing. You need us to restrain your unsophisticated, hick Racist urges. We're providing you with a valuable service (against your wishes) and you should be thankful for it."
But they're unfathomably arrogant and twisted liars and so will never concede that what we have here is a dispute. They will never admit there is a dispute. They will claim they're on our side for years and years.
And then, when it's time to vote -- Fooled you, Racist Chumps! We were against you the whole time!
Yes we know. We've said that all along.
EXCLUSIVE: Thune Admits Some Senate Republicans Hate Trump Too Much To Support SAVE America Act
Senate Majority Leader John Thune admitted some Senate Republicans hate President Donald Trump too much to support the SAVE America Act, multiple sources familiar with the comments told the Daily Caller.Thune admitted during a closed-door GOP lunch on Wednesday that some Republican senators oppose President Donald Trump so strongly that they will never vote for the SAVE America Act, regardless of the legislation's merits, according to several sources familiar with the matter.
The discussion quickly escalated into a heated exchange between Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee, the bill's chief Senate sponsor, and several of his GOP colleagues. Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Thune both challenged Lee's push for the legislation, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
"Yeah, that totally happened," a source familiar with the matter told the Daily Caller.
Still, the Majority Leader's office denies the admission. "This is a baseless claim, and it is unequivocally untrue," a spokesperson for Thune told the Daily Caller.
Fuck you, liar.
This is another criticism that is obviously true: They are egotistical and petty. They claim to be "statesmen" who are horrified by Trump's "incivility," but Trump actually states what his positions really are. And when he opposes you, he opposes you publicly.
These cowardly faggots scheme in the dark and call themselves "civil" for their sabotage and backstabbing. Everybody hates a coward, and everybody hates a traitor even more.
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European Parliament Votes By Almost 2/3rds Majority, 418 to 218, to Make It Easier to Deport Migrants; Hall Explodes Into Chant of "Send Them Back! Send Them Back!"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The joke leftist newspaper The Guardian is very sad about this, and wants you to know that after the "Send them back!" chant, some shrill voices counter-chanted "shame on you."
Oh no, we've never heard squeaky communists hissing "shame" at us.
Rightwing MEPs have come under fire after they celebrated a vote aimed at increasing deportations across the EU with chants of "send them back", leading other lawmakers to respond with cries of "shame on you".The heated confrontation in the European parliament came on Wednesday after lawmakers voted 418 to 218 to approve controversial measures aimed at increasing deportations of undocumented people.
A two-thirds majority in what is usually a very left-wing, pro-bureaucrat, pro-Davos body is "controversial."
But opening the borders wasn't controversial, you see.
The overhaul has been widely criticised by rights groups including Amnesty International France, which this week described the plans as "absurd, cruel and discriminatory", and 16 UN experts, who recently outlined more than a dozen ways in which the rules could contravene international human rights.
Wow I'm surprised that "the experts" -- meaning leftwingers who have f***ed and s***ed their way into cushy NGO jobs -- were against this.
One reform now allows countries to make deals with third-party countries to take their "asylum seekers" as their meritless, fraudulent asylum claims are processed. If I recall correctly, Italy just sought such a deal, and made an agreement with Albania to take the "asylees" while they churned through the fraud.
But then the European Union cancelled the deal, claiming it was against the Convention on Human Rights. (Again, if memory serves.)
I assume this reform makes that deal permissible.
The plans include measures under which people could be detained for up to two years or sent to offshore centres that have been described as potential "human rights black holes", while also allowing ICE-style immigration enforcement to gain a foothold in Europe.
LOL.
The reform also allows governments to detain "migrants" for longer. They can be detained, IIRC, for two months without cause, and for an unlimited period if they're a security threat.
If anyone says "but that's holding them without trial" -- well, they're always free to leave the country.
...The far right's celebration of the vote was swiftly condemned. Javi López, a Socialist and vice-president of the European parliament, described the plenary session as "disgraceful". Writing on social media, he added: "As if people were parcels. Families. Minors. Deported to third countries. This is the Europe they are imposing."
Oh, Javi Lopez wouldn't be a socialist from Spain, by any chance, would he?
The leftwing Spanish government granted residency to lots of illegal aliens, in order to replace the native Spanish population. They said this mass amnesty would apply to 500,000 aliens, so don't even worry about it, mate.
Surprise! They lied. It's up to a million and counting.
Those experts, they just never get things right, do they?
Maybe they're not really experts at all.
Spain's government has received around 900,000 applications from undocumented migrants seeking legal status under a programme that initially expected half a million requests, the Migration Ministry said on Monday....
Non-profit refugee aid organisation CEAR expects applications to exceed one million by the time the programme ends in two weeks.
"We expect to conclude this session of oral sex without coming in your mouth," the experts said, nutting.
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Another Surprise: Harvard Students Experience Mental Illness at Double the Rate of the Normal Adult Population
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Both are in play but that second part is probably the bigger piece of it.
Harvard Students Are Twice as Mentally Ill as the General Population Amid Ivy Psychological Meltdown Young and left-wing are part of 'emerging mental health political identity'
The Ivy League is having a mental health crisis."Forty-seven percent of surveyed seniors indicated that they experienced mental illness at some point in their time at Harvard, and 13 percent said they were unsure," according to a survey of the Class of 2026 conducted by the Harvard Crimson student newspaper. That's more than double the rate of the general adult U.S. population, which the federal government's National Institute of Mental Health estimates at 23.1 percent, noting that "Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe."
At Princeton, a senior survey conducted by the Princetonian student newspaper found 60.1 percent had mental health counseling or therapy during college, with 36.3 percent getting help from the university's counseling and psychological services and 23.8 percent finding outside assistance. That's also much higher than the overall population; NPR reported last year on a study that found "the number of American adults getting outpatient talk therapy grew from 6.5% to 8.5%."
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Potential causes of the trends are multifarious. As with mild autism and learning disabilities of the sort that generate eligibility for untimed standardized tests, it's unclear how much of the increase is in incidence and how much is in identification--that is, are today's students really more depressed, anxious, or panicked than previous generations, or are they and the grownups around them simply more likely to diagnose and label their maladies as mental illness? It could be that both dynamics are operating.
The article notes that leftwingers are simply more insane than the normal population, and, I would add, Harvard discriminates in favor of the factors for mental illness.
"Those more likely to categorize as having a mental illness are more likely to have a college degree; be a Democrat, liberal, and White; and have slightly lower family income," Van De Hey writes...
The fact that the student newspaper surveys are even asking questions about the issue is a sign of its salience. The Crimson senior survey also found, "Seniors reported continued support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement as Israel's war in Gaza continues into its third year and after a sharp increase in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. More than 40 percent of respondents view the movement favorably, increasing 5 percentage points from last year's graduating class." Israel reached a ceasefire in Gaza in October 2025, so the contention that "Israel's war in Gaza continues into its third year" is itself a kind of delusion, and the support for BDS--a movement to wipe Israel off the map--from the seniors is evidence that Harvard is failing to educate the students. The survey found 65.6 percent of Harvard students identifying as either "progressive" or "very progressive."
Hello! I am still getting up to speed. I had a horrible night of sleep.
Hung out with the main-man crow this morning, NBD. He saw me eating and flapped over just in case.
Surprise! Ringleader of UFC Explosives/Snipers Terror Plot is Illegal Alien From Mexico, Allowed to Stay in the US by Obama as a "Dreamer"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Are you not Culturally Enriched?
RedWave Press @RedWavePress
NEWS: The ringleader behind the foiled UFC Freedom 250 terrorist plot is a Mexican illegal alien, Abraham Alvarez, who overstayed a B2 visa that expired in 2001 and later received deportation relief through the DACA program under the Obama adminstration, according to Fox News Digital.Mark Meredith: "[Investigators] believe more than 20 people may have been involved... Prosecutors say that suspects allegedly wanted to use drones packed with explosives over the arena, which was built over the South Lawn. The explosions would then force people who were out there to panic, to flee, and then snipers would then try to take them out."
The alleged "ringleader" of the explosive drone attack plot against the UFC event at the White House is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.Abraham Alvarez, 31, came to the US as a child and failed to leave the country when his B2 visa expired in 2001, but was granted deportation relief under the Obama administration through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Alvarez was one of five alleged co-conspirators in the scheme to kill President Trump and other top government officials at the combat sports spectacle held late Sunday on the White House South Lawn attended by thousands of fight fans.
I'm very curious why the first terrorist identified was a white guy. I suspect it was to shape the narrative that this was either a "far right" plot. Now that they've muddied the water, the narrative intended to actually carry the day will begin, that "we may never know the motive" and that their politics are "confused" and why do you Racists even want to know the motive, anyway?
...Authorities told the outlet Alvarez was responsible for planning, organizing and directing the coordinated attack, which was thwarted by the FBI and local authorities.
"This illegal alien from Mexico should never have been allowed in our country," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "He was the ringleader of a failed terror attack targeting UFC Freedom 250 at the White House.""He will face justice and swiftly be removed from our country," she added of Alvarez.
There are 23 terror plotters sought by the feds. Only five have been caught so far.
The plotters face potential life sentences, plus five years for plotting an attack on the White House itself.
Reportedly, the authorities were alerted to the threat of these degenerate leftwing Third Worldist terrorists by the mother of one of the incels.
The motive will never be known, Racists. Trust that.
Some of the suspects allegedly planned to travel to Fredericksburg, Virginia, on June 12 and 13 to make final preparations ahead of the attack.
One suspect allegedly told investigators the goal was to target 'capitalist elites,' 'billionaires' or politicians who received donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
One of the central figures identified by prosecutors is 19-year-old Ohio resident Tycen Proper.
According to an FBI affidavit, Proper admitted participating in discussions about an attack that authorities say was intended to 'jumpstart' a revolution in the United States.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
Here, in microcosm, is the existential issue with the Republican Party. The traditional political philosophy that informs it is so weak and watered down that the immense egos of the leadership has replaced it. Of course one might ask what their current philosophy is, and the answer? The use of power to accumulate wealth.
That the personal feelings of the corporate GOP overwhelms a popular bill that will solidify the Republican party's reemergence from the ashes of 2020 is of no importance to these venal, craven, empty suits. They do not care about the future prospects of their constituents or their country, and the accumulation of wealth and prestige via their positions in a sadly diminished United States Senate is their only focus.
Thune Admits Some Senate Republicans Hate Trump Too Much To Support SAVE America Act
Senate Majority Leader John Thune admitted some Senate Republicans hate President Donald Trump too much to support the SAVE America Act, multiple sources familiar with the comments told the Daily Caller.Thune admitted during a closed-door GOP lunch on Wednesday that some Republican senators oppose President Donald Trump so strongly that they will never vote for the SAVE America Act, regardless of the legislation's merits, according to several sources familiar with the matter.
The discussion quickly escalated into a heated exchange between Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee, the bill's chief Senate sponsor, and several of his GOP colleagues. Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Thune both challenged Lee's push for the legislation, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
Their opposition is personal, not political, and flies in the face of everything that their voters want. That these pathetic, puffed-up asses cannot tamp down their personal displeasure of President Trump, and do what is best for America is, frankly, disgusting, and the repercussions will be vast.
I too am not a fan of Donald Trump's public personality... his bombastic pronouncements and his ricocheting around many issues. My solution is simple; I will not invite him to Thanksgiving dinner. I will however support him politically, because he is acting in the best interests of America and Americans, and that is far more important than any trivial opinion of his personality.
That this disgusting cohort of faux Republicans allows their personal animus to damage their country is proof positive of the terminal malaise of the corporate GOP, and hopefully Americans will identify them and forcefully eject them from our political process.
And for a template, just look at the Democrat Party! Their personalities are, in the main, vile, yet for all of their issues, the Democrats close ranks regardless of personal feelings and support their platforms, vote en masse for their favored bills, and present a united front. Imagine having to sit in a committee room or a meeting with Nadler or Pressley or Tlaib or Schiff or Schumer or Biden or... Sounds awful, because they are awful people, but the Democrat Party understands that personal animosity has no place in realpolitik, and they are more successful because of it. Perhaps that is because their political philosophy is clear: The acquisition of money to purchase power!
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The Morning Report — 6/ 18 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Well, evidently the deal with Iran has been signed, sealed and delivered, one day ahead of schedule. That said, there are still many many questions yet to be answered. I cannot help but recoil in horror when you consider that the treaty was signed at Versailles . . . where 107 years ago a truly disastrous treaty that instead of ending the War to End All Wars only set the stage for a conflagration that nearly destroyed the world, the reverberations of which we are still feeling to this day. That includes foreign policy decisions and mindsets that allowed the Iranian Mullahs to come to power in the first place as well as sowed the seeds of the West's suicide by mass immigration mostly by Muslims who have not and never will surrender their desire to dominate the globe.
And keep that top of mind as we dig into some of the details of this treaty, because regardless of what the Mullahs have agreed to and or promise, they will never abide by it if it prevents them from conquering humanity. delay or a strategic retreat is one thing. Here they are after 1,500 years of barbarism, so what's two more years of Trump or perhaps 8 more of Vance or whoever, and GOD-forbid it's another Democrat then for sure a Shiite nuke perhaps on top of a Shiite ICBM will be headed our way before long.
Islam neither cares about nor views partisan politics in the same way we do. Yes, as part of or even being modern nation states unto themselves, they do indeed have parties and factions vying for control but in the end, it's Islam that supersedes and dries all political considerations.
The Trump administration is promoting a new agreement with Iran as a diplomatic breakthrough. White House talking points emphasize Iranian commitments to forgo nuclear weapons, international verification, regional stability and economic incentives tied to compliance. Yet many of the details that have emerged so far raise more questions than answers. Administration officials point to Iran's reported commitment, in writing, not to pursue nuclear weapons. But Iran has already made that commitment before. The country has been a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 1970. The challenge has never been the language on paper; it has been enforcement. History offers ample reason for skepticism. Supporters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action similarly argued that inspections and monitoring would prevent Iran from advancing its nuclear ambitions. Critics warned that Tehran would exploit loopholes and conceal activities. Whatever one's view of the JCPOA, the lesson remains: Agreements are only as effective as their enforcement mechanisms.That is why recent comments from President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance deserve close scrutiny.. . The central problem is that the public is being asked to evaluate a framework that has not yet been fully disclosed. Questions about enrichment, missile programs, terrorism, sanctions relief, inspections and enforcement remain unresolved or insufficiently explained.
And lurker extraordinaire Prof. Victor Davis Hanson has a few thoughts...
The shooting portion of the Iran “War” lasted about 40 days—far shorter than Barack Obama’s 2011 congressionally unauthorized seven-month bombing campaign against Libya.Bill Clinton’s unauthorized 78 days of bombing Serbia in 1999 hit bridges, schools, hospitals, monuments, and power plants—far more indiscriminate targeting than anything in the Iran War so far.
No one yet knows the ultimate verdict on the war, given all the economic, military, political, and strategic variables still in play. A memorandum of understanding released this week might end the war, or result in further American strikes—depending on the degree of Iranian concessions and compliance.
But in this confusing, ongoing drama, many fabrications and distortions still circulate. . .
. . . Yet there still are no ground troops in Iran. The loss of 13 soldiers, while tragic, is less than the two-week fatal-accident rate of the military.
There is a good chance that less than six weeks of active bombing achieved far more than 20 years in Afghanistan and a decade in Iraq—at a fraction of the human and fiscal costs.
The key to negotiating an end to the war is to always remember that Iran’s regime—its theocrats, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, military leaders, and elected officials—has no history of telling the truth or abiding by any agreement it signs.
So the only means of enforcing concessions is to use disproportionate force each time Iran inevitably violates the terms of the armistice.
While VDH seems cautiously optimistic both in terms of what this means here politically and overall geopolitically, he is nevertheless quite correct in his observations about who is running Iran and their non-existent trustworthiness.
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Daily Tech News 18 June 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Mandy Rice-Davies applies: Anthropic employees accuse Trump Administration of targeting them. (New York Times)
The article is unreadable. Literally so if you don't maintain a paid NYT subscription for their puzzles page. A free login traps you in Dark Pattern Hell, an endless series of inescapable popup ads offering free paid trials cancel any time by submitting your cancellation request carved into the side of a living member of an extinct species of goat through first-class double-registered triple-certified mail. The usual archive sites don't work either.
Even if you have a subscription or you know of another workaround not that I would ever endorse such a thing, you will simply find that it is not worth reading:"What are you telling your clients?" one employee asked in a chat viewed by The New York Times. Another said, "Does anyone know what to believe?" In another message, a worker said, "I don't understand what the issue is."
Playing dumb or actually dumb? What difference, at this point, does it make?
- Anthropic asked for regulation. Washington went much further. (CNBC)
An actually informed and balanced take on the situation.
Quick precis: Anthropic announced its new Mythos AI tool with supernaturally dangerous hacking powers restricted to approved researchers, and its defanged Fable AI which is exactly the same thing only not. The Trump Administration ruled that if they're as dangerous as Anthropic claims, they need to be restricted for reasons of national security to American citizens on American soil. Anthropic threw its toys out of the pram and blocked access globally, and is now seeking to lay all the blame at the feet of that mean old Mister Trump.
What CNBC highlights and The New York Times buries is a blog post written by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a fucking week ago:Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety.
Amodei is every bit as much of a weasel as Sam Altman. And while Altman is a sociopath and a compulsive liar, Amodei is something much worse: He's whiny.
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Wednesday Night ONT - June 17, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open and freshly re-stocked.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
Are you concerned that the problems in your crawl space might interfere with your ability to comment with brevity and wit? You can overcome. (Could be worse. You could have snakes in your ductwork.)
[Top photo: CityCenter, Washington, DC - enjoy the mystery click but any suggestions of other alternatives or candidates?]
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Cat-Head Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Mustafa Bayram
She's got a kitty-cat and will sing that if you don't believe her.
Little lion cub practices his roar.
Floppy-eared goats chilling.
Baby elephant vs. a safari bus.
Baby goats going HAM.
Scratching a tapir, if you know what I mean.
Dogs have charm and think they can make friends with anything.
Rescuing prairie dog pups.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Bernie Sanders: I have every right to own three homes. I earned that money by writing anti-capitalism screed-books.
Gay activists are angry that streetlamps in Northport will be used from May to September to honor fallen veterans, which doesn't allow "other communities" to hang their gay flags from them. Oh my, you are suffering like no other group has suffered throughout all of human history. #Courage.
I didn't write much about the MLB crushing dissident speech as regards the forced-speech in favor of "pride."
Josh Hawley made a serious threat against the league. The league enjoys a completely judge-fabricated exemption from the nation's antitrust law (the league serves as anti-competitive monopoly), an exemption no other league or corporation enjoys. (The NFL got a congressional exception, with limitations. Including no games on Saturday during college season, which is why you don't see Saturday NFL games until January.)
Hawley wants to look into whether that judge-manufactured exemption should be overturned, if MLB is going to use its monopoly power to compel the speech of workers who cannot go to a competitor league, due to their monopoly power.
The league's claim that it merely forbids "writing of any kind" on its uniforms does not survive a cursory review of the league's recent history. In 2020, MLB itself turned its uniforms and its fields into a billboard for political and social messages. It created jersey patches reading "Black Lives Matter" and "United for Change." It authorized "BLM" to be stenciled onto pitching mounds. And it suspended its own equipment rules so that players could display progressive political slogans on their cleats. The league went beyond tolerating speech--it designed speech, promoted speech, and shoehorned social and political messages into the game broadcast to millions of Americans. Yet when three players added a handful of characters citing the Book of Genesis to their caps, the league reached for its rulebook.This does not appear to be an isolated incident. Your organization's recent action follows an undercover investigation which revealed an admission from a Washington Nationals executive that a Catholic player on the team was not included in promotional materials for the team because of his faith. That executive has since been fired, but not before the anti-Christian bigotry was exposed.
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My concern is sharpened by the singular legal position that Major League Baseball occupies. Alone among America's professional sports leagues, baseball enjoys a sweeping, judicially manufactured exemption from the federal antitrust laws--a privilege the Senate Judiciary Committee has examined with bipartisan skepticism in recent years. A league that benefits from such an extraordinary dispensation owes the public a corresponding measure of accountability, and it invites the closest scrutiny when it appears to wield its market power to punish Americans for their beliefs. That exemption, in any event, has never been understood to shield the league from its legal obligation not to discriminate against its employees on the basis of religion.
The judge invented this unique exemption because, at that time, baseball was so hugely popular that it was considered sacrosanct, and no one wanted to pit the law against baseball, because baseball would win.
Baseball isn't so popular any longer. It's at best the second most popular sport and I think it's actually the third.
They better mind their P's and Q's.
Real Man and Arbiter of Masculinity James Talarico has one checking account, which is a joint account... with his mommy.
I don't want to brag but I've had my own account since I was 28.
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, 37, has a single checking account that holds up to $50,000--and he shares it with his mother, a frequent contributor to his political campaigns who pitched in to cover Talarico's moving expenses when he was 32, records show.Talarico's personal financial disclosure lists a single Wells Fargo checking account with a balance between $15,000 and $50,000. Though Talarico is unmarried, the disclosure indicates that the account is owned jointly. A "filer comment" provides clarity: "The account is jointly held by the filer and the filer's mother." Talarico did not disclose any other checking accounts.
It's unclear exactly why Talarico--whose campaign did not respond to a request for comment--shares the account with his mother, but she appears to be helping him, not vice versa.
Tamara Talarico is in her early 60s and appears to be in good health. She marched in a "No Kings" protest in October 2025 and joined Talarico on the campaign trail in subsequent months, including for his appearance on the View in February. Tamara Talarico has donated more than $2,000 to Democrats since 2023, Federal Election Commission records show, including more than $450 to Talarico's Senate campaign. She is married to Talarico's adoptive father, Mark Talarico, who holds a degree in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M and worked for nearly 30 years--until his retirement in 2021--as a senior sales engineer for a Texas-based company that sells advanced laboratory instruments, according to his LinkedIn.
Talarico's parents contributed $5,000 each to his campaign for state representative in 2021, records show. The same year, Talarico reported an in-kind campaign contribution of $1,437.84 from his parents for "moving expenses." Talarico was 32 years old at the time.
Talarico joined the part-time Texas House of Representatives--which pays members an annual salary of $7,200--in 2018 after working as a sixth-grade teacher. He represents a portion of, and lives in, Texas's "priciest metropolis," Austin.
Talarico has supplemented the modest salary he earns as a state lawmaker with consulting income from the equity-focused education firm MAYA Consulting, which he joined in 2019 and which developed diversity, equity, and inclusion plans for public school districts in Texas during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, the Washington Free Beacon reported. It's unclear how much Talarico has earned from the firm, and, while Texas state lawmakers are required to file financial disclosures, they do not include annual income.
Your prototypical, archetypal Democrat "man."
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Federal Judge Upholds Conviction of Judge Who Illegally Aided Criminal Illegal Aliens to Escape ICE
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is a bad day for high-calorie Karens.
But that's just a day ending in a -day.
A federal judge on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a former Wisconsin judge who helped an undocumented man evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman declined to reconsider former Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan's conviction without rescheduling a sentencing date. Adelman previously postponed Dugan's sentencing on June 3.
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The lawyers added that Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, the Mexican immigrant she led out a private courthouse door to evade ICE officers, was not facing a pending proceeding but a warrant for his arrest instead. Adelman, a Bill Clinton appointee and former Democratic state legislator, was unconvinced by this argument.
"At oral argument, defendant noted that ICE goes out every day to try to arrest people on the street," Adelman wrote in his ruling. He echoed the defense's argument, writing "Given the estimated 10 million undocumented persons in the United States, does that mean there are 10 million pending proceedings?"
The federal judge added that Dugan "insists that there needs to be some formality, i.e., a proceeding before an agency involving parties trying to come to a determination, an adjudication."
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Dugan was found guilty of obstruction charges in December. She faces up to five years in prison for obstruction, the more serious of the charges, though first-time offenders rarely receive the harshest punishment.
...Flores-Ruiz has since been deported. His appearance before Dugan and her conviction have come amid the Trump administration's massive crackdown on immigrants across the U.S.
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Huge: The Federal Trade Commission Sues the Main Transgenderism-for-Children Organization, WPATH, Citing False Claims About Transgender Surgery Reducing Suicide Risks
—Disinformation Expert Ace
WPATH is largely funded by J.B. Pritzker's transgender brother, Lt. Colonel "Jennifer" Pritzker, retired.
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@BillboardChris🚨 Massive news with worldwide repercussions!
The FTC, along with Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas, have filed a lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), alleging the organization has provided the means for medical providers to make false and unsubstantiated claims to parents in order to sell pediatric medical transition services.
WPATH, an association of clinicians who profit from pediatric medical transition services, recommended medical interventions, including drugs and surgery, for children and adolescents who expressed dissatisfaction with or distress about their sex traits. In their complaint, the FTC and its state partners allege that these recommendations misled parents and children about the medical consensus and medical necessity, as well as the safety and effectiveness, of such services, in violation of the FTC Act.
"Today, the FTC filed a lawsuit against WPATH alleging that the organization made false and unsubstantiated claims regarding the necessity, effectiveness and safety of puberty blockers, hormones and sex-change surgeries," said Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson.
"Children, but especially their parents, must have complete and truthful information when making decisions to purchase medical services. For decades, the FTC has taken action against entities that make deceptive and unsubstantiated health-related claims. The complaint filed today reflects that same long-standing mandate: when an entity makes a claim about a medical treatment, the claim must be truthful, evidence-based and not misleading."
In 2022, WPATH omitted all mention of age limitations for breast amputation or penis removal from the "Standards of Care" document providing the organization's official recommendations for treating sex-trait-related dissatisfaction or distress in children.
As alleged in the complaint, WPATH did not base this decision on medical evidence.
As described in the complaint, in several instances, parents seeking help for their children were asked by clinicians whether they "would rather have a live daughter or a dead son," based on WPATH representations that pediatric medical transition services are "lifesaving." As the complaint argues, there is no competent and reliable scientific evidence to suggest these interventions reduce the risk of suicide.WPATH claims its recommendations represent "consensus-based expert opinion." This leads WPATH members and other clinicians to repeat to consumers false, misleading or unsubstantiated statements about safety and efficacy found in WPATH guidelines, according to the complaint.
According to the complaint, despite the absence of competent and reliable scientific evidence, WPATH's guidelines label nearly every pediatric transition service as "medically necessary" to maximize the likelihood that insurers will pay for the pediatric transition procedures.
Election Official Stops Democrat Dirty Trick: Democrats Tried to Split the Republican Vote for Dan Sullivan in Alaska By Running Another Man Named Dan Sullivan
—Disinformation Expert Ace
There is an interesting controversy in Alaska where an election official just disqualified a candidate over his name. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) is in what is considered a close race with Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola. The seat is viewed as critical to the Democrats' retaking power.The race was thrown into disarray when a retired teacher named Dan Sullivan, who had no connection to the GOP but did have connections to Democratic operatives, got on the ballot. The alleged dirty trick by Democratic and Peltola supporters would have split Sullivan's vote through sheer confusion. Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher disqualified Dan J. Sullivan, putting an end to it this week.
The suspected dirty trick comes at a time when Democratic candidates and pundits are calling for winning back power "by any means necessary."
Democrats should really consider what happens when we take a similar "by any means necessary" posture.
Because it's coming.
It could create an interesting appeal if teacher Sullivan claims that this is just a colossal coincidence or that he has a right to be a vehicle for electoral confusion.
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Beecher noted several indicators that teacher Sullivan and the Democrats were engaged in a dishonest campaign of confusion. She noted that he voted under the name Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr., but requested to appear on the ballot as Dan Sullivan--making him identical to the incumbent. He even tried to register using the initial "S" once, which would have matched the senator.
She also noted that Dan J. Sullivan had not registered as a Republican before launching his Senate campaign and that he created a new website that used a "color scheme and overall theme" similar to the incumbent's campaign materials.
She also noted his connection to Amber Lee, an Alaska Democratic consultant and past supporter of Peltola.
Of course it's a teacher.
When we go low, they go high.
Always remember that.
Stop making them go so high, low-goers!!!!
"PRIDE" Goeth for Its Long-Awaited Fall
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"Ally" corporations have abandoned pRiDe and gay supremacists are very upset.
We knew corporations would abandon Pride. It still hurts.The brands that are backing away from Pride Month are doing exactly what we knew they would do all along -- support LGBTQ+ people only as long as it was profitable.
At the start of June, I stopped by Target while running errands in the SoHo neighborhood of New York. The store had just set out its summer merchandise, displaying an array of clothes, accessories and sunscreens nestled within a series of red arches.
As I hurried past tank tops and patterned shorts toward the pet section, I stopped to look at the Pride collection.
There wasn't much -- a single display of generic rainbow-colored shirts and home goods rested toward the back of the store, with no signs declaring June to be LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
I realized at that moment that in spite of the fact that I live in New York City, and in spite of the fact that I am part of the LGBTQ+ community, I hadn't seen many corporate advertisements related to this year's celebration. I think I know why.
Companies are done using Pride Month for profits
It seems that the era of rainbow capitalism that has endured since Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage the law of the land in 2015 is no longer a guaranteed moneymaker for brands, leading them to downsize their efforts or abandon them altogether.
As conservatism rears its head across the country and corporations ditch diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, there is suddenly no incentive to support the LGBTQ+ community.
I hate to say it, but we told you this would happen.
Rainbow capitalism, the process of brands and corporations profiting off of the LGBTQ+ community, was never going to save us. There is no world where a JPMorgan Chase & Co. sponsorship at New York City's annual Pride March was going to solve homophobia in the United States. There was never a time when a cheaply made T-shirt was going to lead to equity.
The brands that are backing away from Pride Month are doing exactly what we knew they would do all along -- support LGBTQ+ people only as long as it was profitable. Now that there is less support, the community is reminded of why Pride began in the first place.
To endlessly hector and humiliate normies who just want to be left in peace without your constant shrieking, hysteria, and narcissistic insistence on "centering" yourself in all things?
From a marketing perspective, it makes sense that Pride Month is no longer the big event it once was several years ago. Support for same-sex marriage has declined, according to a recent Gallup poll. Fewer people believe that same-sex partnerships are "morally acceptable." Support for transgender rights has gone down.
You kept making more and more extravagant demands, testing people's inclination to be "nice" to avoid confrontation, until those demands became so oppressive they stopped being "nice."
This is entirely on you. Or, it's entirely on the gay grifter activist class, who can only justify their phony-baloney jobs by making greater and greater claims on the public's sympathies and attention so they can show they're "getting results" for their $300,000 per year jobs.
Until the public gets sick of the endless extortion campaign and starts saying "No."
This is the direct result of orchestrated attacks by Republicans on LGBTQ+ rights, particularly trans rights, during Trump's second ascent to the presidency.
No, Trump's second ascent to the presidency is because of your ever-escalating demands on the public.
Thank you for that, by the way. We couldn't have done it without you. Unlike the left, we don't have to create monsters to scare the public with -- they actually exist, and won't shut the fuck up in harassing the public.
Trans people no longer have access to accurate gender markers on their passports. Trans children have lost access to gender-affirming care. Trans women were barred from competing on sports teams that align with their gender.
Do you even hear yourself?
According to the Gallup poll, Republicans are the ones whose support for same-sex marriage and trans rights has waned in recent years. For some reason, they are the ones dictating culture in the United States, leading to fewer Pride collections in stores and decreasing corporate support at festivals.
Absolultely. We thought we could appease you but you demonstrated again and again that you were unappeasable and each fresh concession we granted you just encouraged further aggression. You know, like a communist dictator or Islamic conqueror.
The Gay Lobby assured us, over and over, that "gay marriage will have no effect on your life at all." When objectors said "gay marriage will lead to demands for 'trans acceptance' next, you called those people liars and said that will never, ever happen.
Well, you fucking lied. You lied and lied and lied until you got what you wanted, then you began making the exact kind of demands that people said you'd make when you got what you said you wanted.
And you're surprised people are fed up with your bullshit?
Even if it's unsurprising that corporations are backing away from rainbow capitalism, and even though many within the LGBTQ+ community feel at odds with the commercialization of a celebration that started as a protest, it stings to see Pride transform in this way.
Oh no, they "commercialized" Pride Month. Is nothing sacred?
Christmas, sure, but PRIDE MONTH?!?!!
Check out the massive civil rights violations that gay people in "rural and suburban communities" now face:
... For LGBTQ+ people in rural and suburban communities, stores like Target are some of the only options for buying Pride apparel. In reducing their support for Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ community, these stores are reducing access for people who want to celebrate who they are.
Do you have access to... Amazon.com, praychance?
This is the flipside of the evermore-intrusive demands the gay mafia makes -- the violations they claim to suffer go in the opposite direction, getting tinier and tinier until they are so small their existence, due to Heisenberg Uncertainty, can't even be said to be real.
Meanwhile, they continue actually oppressing everyone who doesn't feel like wearing their gay identifiers:
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OUTRAGE: The MLB is getting absolutely BLASTED online as BOYCOTTS continue to mount after the league "warned" San Francisco Giants players for their "violation" of writing Bible verses on their caps during pride night caps."The writing on the cap violates our rules and consistent with normal practice we have warned the players about future violations," MLB Chief Communications Officer Pat Courtney said in a statement Monday.
The MLB attempted to BACKTRACK in a new statement on Tuesday writing: "To be clear, this routine verbal warning not to wear the hat in future games is not disciplinary and had absolutely nothing to do with the content of the message. We respect players' right to free expression."
"However, writing of any kind, with any message, is prohibited per Major League Baseball's Uniform Regulations which provides in part that, '[a] Player may not write, attach, affix, embroider or otherwise display nicknames or messages on apparel or playing equipment.'"
"We have given the same warning numerous times in the past to players for messages such as 'Dad', 'Happy Mother's Day, I Love Mom' and names of family members."
Uh-huh.
Except you're here compelling people to speak a message they disagree with.
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Soros DA Larry Krasner of Philadelphia Is Brutally Taken Down by (Democrat) Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Which Accuses Him of Bad-Faith and Lying In Order to Set Convicted Murderers Free with No Legal Justification
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You've heard of sue-and-settle. That's the unethical and possibly illegal practice of Democrat bureaucrats (and it is almost always Democrats) conceding lawsuits to friendly, politically-aligned litigants. These concessions result in Democrat policy preferences being encoded into law not by regular democratic processes, but by a "consent degree" agreed to by the executive that has the force of law itself.
So if you can't get 50,000 acres of land blocked from development through a law, just get your environmental buddies to sue your department claiming the snail darter is endangered, and then do no oppositional research to verify that. Just agree that yes, the snail darter is endangered and its very very sad, then propose a settlement by which the 50,000 acres you wanted to put off-limits for development but could not get legislatures to agree to are now off-limits for devolopment per the terms of a consent decree you sign with the "hostile" litigants you actually conspired with to bring about this outcome.
It's an inside-outside game, except that both parties are actually insiders, conspiring with each other to defraud the public.
Such as Larry Krasner, the pro-crime, pro-murder Soros-funded DA for Philadelphia.
For years, he has been setting murderers free or granting them new trials -- which they'll probably win, because witnesses die and evidence is destroyed over the course of 10-20 years -- by claiming that the defense lawyers he's conspiring with brought forward new evidence sufficient to overturn past jury verdicts.
This is the kind of scheme that is almost never punished. How would you prove it? And who would be the party to complain? If you try to sue Kramer himself, a leftwing judge will probably just say you lack "standing" to sue him.
Well, amazingly, the Democrat-majority Pennsylvania Supreme Court just called him out and didn't use polite or evasive language to explain why they refusing his latest "concession" to a defense lawyer to let a murderer out of jail. They say, pretty much straight-up, "You're lying, there is no evidence sufficient to compel this, these are bad-faith 'concessions' you're making to your political allies, and you're setting murderers free not because the evidence warrants it but because you have a personal, political interest in setting murderers free."
Not only do they set aside his lawless decision to free a murderer, but they go a big step further and say because you are a bad-faith actor without credibility, all future decisions "conceding" a point to defense lawyers about a prior jury verdict will first have to be approved by the state Attorney General. They're taking his License to Free Murderers away from him.
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@nextphlmayorWild stuff. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in hot water and now needs the PA AG's office to review all attempts to overturn a murder conviction.
"In a forceful and scolding opinion, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that District Attorney Larry Krasner's office misled the courts, "violated its duty of candor," and submitted false statements when asking a judge to vacate a 2004 murder conviction.
Justice Kevin Dougherty wrote that prosecutors' pattern of misleading judges in seeking to overturn murder convictions is so troubling and recurrent that, going forward, before Krasner's office seeks such relief, judges must notify the state attorney general's office and allow it to review the case."
DA Krasner's Office was playing fast and loose when it came to trying to overturn murder convictions... and then not doing anything after overturning them.
Time and again it has come out that his DAOs lied to the court, hid evidence, or didn't communicate with the families of the victims.
This isn't political. The PA Supreme Court is 5-2 Democrat. This is about due process and justice.
Crazy that it has been able to go on for this long without somebody stepping in...
There has been 115 cases...
"The attorney general's office had filed an amicus brief in support of the families, arguing that, since 2018, Krasner's office had conceded relief to the defendants in 115 cases in which there was no "adversarial testing" of the case.
Attorney General David Sunday, a Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that his office is grateful to serve "as a check on this process for the citizens of Philadelphia and ensure that the interests of victims' families are represented."
When an investigation reveals that a defendant was wrongfully convicted, his office said, prosecutors have a duty to remedy the situation -- through the established court processes.
"As the Court noted," his office said, "this case is about the failure of the process in Philadelphia, both as to this defendant and many others.""
The opinion explains that while the Post-Conviction Relief Act (PCRA court) is the actual body that sets murderers free, they have, until now, taken the DA's "concessions" that prior verdicts must be overturned as nigh-dispositive. Krasner would just concede case after case to his political allies seeking to free murderers.
Now they say that Krasner will not be allowed to make these "concessions" on his own authority -- he'll have to submit them to the state AG for review and approval.
They straight-up say that Krasner is ignoring the law in favor of his own personal lunatic need to set murderers free:
"When relief is not dictated by the record and law but merely advocated for personal, political, ideological, policy, or other non-legal reasons, a prosecutor's concession does not minister justice; it facilitates injustic."
In an extraordinary ruling from Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, if the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office wants to overturn a conviction in state court, the state Attorney General's Office must be given the chance to review the case and make sure a proper investigation was done.The order comes as a King's Bench petition, which is basically a mechanism for the high court to take over a case and review it. The case at hand involved Lavar Brown, a man convicted of killing two men in the early 2000s and sentenced to death row.
In their opinion, the five Democratic and two Republican justices said District Attorney Larry Krasner has "numerous instances of untrustworthy concessions, lack of candor, misrepresentations of fact, lack of adequate investigation, and avoidance of hearings" and is "unreliable."
They said when a district attorney fails to follow through on their duties it "does not minister justice, it facilitates injustice."
The high court said because "the problems are poised to continue," it's now requiring the Attorney General to intervene on behalf of the commonwealth.
"It is only in Philadelphia County that there has been a pronounced, documented pattern of highly problematic prosecutorial concessions," the judges added.
#Based.
Finally, some good news and some sanity and some actual justice.
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