Daily Tech News 25 April 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Microsoft is running a competition with $2 million in prizes to promote its Edge browser. There's a $1 million grand prize, three Mercedes Benz cars, and a whole swarm of tech gadgets and other goodies. But that's not the story. (Tom's Hardware)
The story is that this has been running for a month and nobody noticed.
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If This Be ONT, Make The Most Of It
—WeirdDave
Hey everybody! How's your week going?
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Spooookeeyyy Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Do you know where the phrase "steal my thunder" comes from?
You might guess it has something to do with some mortal stealing Zeus' lightning bot.
It's more literal than that:
The idiom "to steal someone's thunder" originated in the early 18th century with English playwright and critic John Dennis.The Origin Story
The Invention: In 1709, John Dennis created a new, realistic thunder-making machine (likely involving rolling sheets of tin) for his play Appius and Virginia.
The Failure: His play was not successful and closed quickly at the Drury Lane Theatre.
The Theft: Shortly after, Dennis attended a performance of Macbeth at the same theater and discovered the producers were using his thunder machine.
The Reaction: Outraged, Dennis allegedly exclaimed: "Damn them; they will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder!"
A quick video about the phrase. It's from the BBC so you know it's real. (Taps nose.)
A history of stage lightning, thunder, and rain effects.
Ghost bird look like dragon frog
Ghost Rider Halloween costume.
Putting a Boston Dynamics robot dog into a dog costume. It's creepy.
Okay so this one isn't spooky, but only because it's in broad daylight with a blue sky. Try to imagine it at night with a moon hanging over it.
Snaggle-toothed snake-eel is a Democrat Congresswoman 7.
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The Week in Woke
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As several commetenters pointed out, the mother of the Next Innocent Ba-ba Babylamb Who Didn't Do Nuffin' says that the 4-foot-3 girl who tried to flee from the towering six foot black thug was "bullying" him. She said that in class, she "pushed" the six foot thug "down on the ground." (Not on camera, of course.) And this required him to bodyslam his "bully" and then stomp on her head as she lay on the ground in a daze.
The left is shrieking that Trump is deporting 300 DACA illegals for "no reason."
Like the NYT claiming it's "not clear" why he's denaturalizing terrorists -- the left is pretending they don't know the reason for the DACA deportations.
92% have been convicted of a crime or are currently being prosecuted for a crime.
Say, it was an alleged requirement of DACA that you not commit crimes, wasn't it? I mean, I know Obama didn't really intend to deport criminals, but he pretended that was the requirement to Con the Normies.
Last year, on the 13th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an unconstitutional program he had conjured into existence by executive fiat, Barack Obama was singing its praises."DACA was an example of how we can be a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws," Obama said. "And it's an example worth remembering today, when families with similar backgrounds who just want to live, work, and support their communities, are being demonized and treated as enemies."
And it's all a lie.
Since President Donald Trump returned to office, his administration has arrested nearly 300 DACA recipients nationwide -- 75 of them in Texas alone, who were previously protected from deportation.
And here's the number the left doesn't want to talk about: of 270 DACA recipients arrested between Jan. 1, 2025, and Sept. 28, 2025, 250 -- that's 92% -- had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.
Nine out of ten.
The breakdown is telling. Of those 270 arrests, 130 had criminal convictions, 120 had pending charges, and 14 were cited for immigration violations. Within the same window, 174 DACA recipients were removed from the country. According to the Department of Homeland Security, "Of those removed, 71 were convicted criminals, 66 had pending criminal charges, and 66 were in violation of immigration law. None of these applicants had been granted protected status at the time of their removal."
The article also reminds us that "DACA" has no actual legal force. It confers no status on illegals that they can claim shields them from deportation. It was just Obama's executive order declaring he would not enforce the law against "DACA" illegals.
But Trump can enforce the law as he sees fit. Obama's executive order does not bind him.
And anyway, 92% of the arrestees are criminals, and therefore not even covered by DACA.
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok1h
ICE just arrested multiple criminal illegal aliens with previous convictions for p*dophilia, r*pe, and drug trafficking.
Democrats want to defund DHS and prevent them from removing foreign pedos from our country.
Mug shots of these Brain Surgeons and Rocket Scientists here. Weird, I don't see any stethoscopes or slide-rules. Mostly just gang tats.
This should tell you everything you need to know.
A terrorist car bomber gave a video speech at UC Berkeley and was applauded.
So stunning, so brave.
A failed Palestinian suicide bomber released as part of an October 7 massacre hostage ransom spoke remotely to University of California, Berkeley students on Monday at an event held in one of the university's classrooms, according to social media posts by the organizing student groups.Israa Jaabis, who was convicted of an attempted car bombing in Jerusalem in 2015, spoke by video call to students in Berkeley Law School classroom 170 during a Palestinian Political Prisoners Day event organized by Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine and UC Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine.
The video posted on Wednesday by UCB SJP, in which Jaabis addresses the students, shows a full classroom of students clapping for the failed terrorist.
Jaabis was released in November 2023 as part of a ransom for 26 hostages captured by Gazans during the October 7 massacre, according to the BBC.
But meanwhile... UCLA's "student" council condemned a music event because it featured an Israeli victim of Hamas kidnapping/hostage-taking in the 10/7 slaughter.
And UCLA banned the speaker and canceled the event at their demand.
On April 14, the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, together with Hillel -- a Jewish students' association -- hosted an event featuring Omer Shem Tov, a 23-year-old who was abducted by terrorists from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, and held captive by Hamas for 505 days.One week later, the Undergraduate Students Association Council released a statement condemning the event on the grounds that it "advance[d] incomplete and harmful representations of ongoing violence."
The student council did not condemn a government action. Or a political rally. Or a military campaign. It condemned an event featuring a young person, just like them, who had survived 505 days in the clutches of internationally recognized terrorists, only because the event did not also focus on Palestinian suffering.
The recognition of Israeli and Jewish suffering, on the one hand, does not mean ignoring Palestinian suffering, on the other. That zero-sum thinking is one of the great failures of campus discourse today.
I served as president of UCLA's Undergraduate Students Association Council from 2017-2018. I know that office. I know that gavel. I know what it means to represent a student body as diverse, passionate, and complicated as UCLA's.
And as an Iranian American Jew, I know, painfully, how often Jewish students on that campus have been asked to justify their identities, swallow their grief, or prove that their belonging does not come at someone else's expense.
During my four years at UCLA, I witnessed antisemitism in both overt and subtle forms.
Seems more overt than subtle these days.
Dirty leftists, many of whom seem to come from cultures with no tradition of civil political exchange, also shut down a speech by a DHS official. (Video.)
A chaotic situation unfolded on Tuesday night in Los Angeles as far-left activists and students disrupted and chastised a Department of Homeland Security attorney who was speaking to law students at a conservative group's event at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
They are "far-left," but the suggestion that they are not part of the Democrat mainstream is false. They are the Democrat mainstream -- and the Democrat mainstream is far-left.
The incident took place at a speech hosted by the Federalist Society's UCLA chapter, where James Percival, general counsel of the DHS, was speaking to law students. Over 150 protesters gathered outside the event chanting criticisms of the Trump administration, including "No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist U.S.A."Inside the event, students booed Percival throughout his talk, and many held profane signs while he spoke. One sign read, "F--- you loser." The students also set off different sounds on their phones as part of the disruption, and at different points, yelled out the word "Nazi."
The event culminated in a question and answer session, when most of the disruptors walked out in protest.
"Yesterday, DHS General Counsel James Percival came to UCLA School of Law for a good-faith academic discussion and was met with personal attacks, repeated interruptions, and organized disruption that prevented him from speaking," UCLA FedSoc chapter president Matthew Weinberg told Fox News Digital.
"As President of the UCLA Law Federalist Society and the event organizer, I saw students who came to hear and question a senior federal official denied that opportunity. If this is what it looks like for conservative law students trying to host a speaker at an American law school in 2026, we are not staying silent about it."
After the event was announced, left-wing campus groups circulated posts and online petitions containing rhetoric described as "threatening." One of those radical leftist groups was By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), which on its website calls for a "militant new civil rights and immigrant rights movement," posted a flyer on Instagram promoting a picketing event outside the law school.
A "trans woman" murderer kept in a woman's prison has -- you'll never guess, even if I give you 1000 guesses -- sexually assaulted an actual woman.
SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH? SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?!
The twist here is that the Scottish Supreme Court has ruled that "woman" means -- and see if you can follow this twisty logic -- "woman," so a woman's prison is therefore reserved for actual women. But a trans groups is suing the prison to keep it from obeying the law, and for some reason, the prison continues keeping violent male murderers (and now sexual assaulters) penned in with the women.
J.K. Rowling @jk_rowlingThe Scottish government is responsible for this sexual assault. The Supreme Court has confirmed women's right to single sex spaces, a ruling the SNP continues to flout. If the victim wishes to sue, https://jkrwf.org can assist with all costs.
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Gavin McInnes: The Organizer of "United the (Fake) Right" Paid by the SPLC Would Not Stop Beggint Me to Attend His SPLC-Funded Anti-Right Op
—Disinformation Expert Ace
So it was all an op from the beginning: The guy paid by the SPLC -- who was also, get this, a CNN "reporter" (!!!) -- tried to draw in as many people on the right as possible so they would all get smeared as racists when the "They Will Not Replace Us!" tik-torch operatives made their surprise, but planned, appearance.
Here's Gavin McInnes confronting this SPLC plant for attempting to recruit Proud Boys.
More drip, drip, drip on this two-in-one Race Communist/White Supremacist organization:
In the early 1990s, I was the opinion pages editor of the Oceanside Blade-Citizen in San Diego County. We were a 30,000 circulation daily serving Oceanside, Carlsbad, Vista and Encinitas. At that time, California and a few other states were pioneering new laws that required financial institutions to share with customers the files they kept on us - and to provide a process for challenging inaccurate information.The editorial board - publisher Tom Missett, managing editor Rusty Harris, and myself - were in favor of this development, and wrote a series of editorials in support of it. Then we went a step further, and in another editorial argued that political and activist organizations that keep files on American citizens should also have to disclose those files on request, and have a process whereby inaccurate information could be challenged.
We had in mind everyone from the National Rifle Association to the ACLU - the sorts of nonprofit advocacy groups that tend to monitor what their perceived opponents write and say in public.
But it was only the Southern Poverty Law Center we heard from.
I have no idea how they knew a mid-size daily in Southern California had written an editorial in favor of transparency and accountability, but they weren't happy. Maybe a reader who disagreed with our position forwarded it to SPLC headquarters halfway across the country, maybe a newspaper near them picked it up off the wire and ran it - it didn't matter.
What mattered was that someone from the SPLC called Rusty and warned that this was a dangerous idea. That this would make it more difficult and expensive for them to track white supremacists and racists.
Rusty, in his quiet Texas drawl, pointed out that being falsely accused of espousing such views could be devastating to the person so accused - and that surely no reasonable person could oppose allowing people to clear their name?
Well, that never happens, they told him.
Rusty then suggested they submit a commentary in response to our editorial, and said he's make sure it ran.
No, he was told. That isn't good enough. They wanted a retraction of our editorial!
Rusty patiently explained that we'd already given this quite a bit of thought, and we stood by our position.
Then things turned ugly. It would be unfortunate, the SPLC rep told Rusty, if the SPLC had to add a newspaper of all things to their hate watch list! That they would name our editorial board members as well, let the world know that we supported hate!
It's a Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organization.
The SPLC deleted all reports of anti-white racist hate-crimes.
At least 2,000 educators around the country reported racist slurs and other derogatory language leveled against white students in the first days after Donald Trump was elected president. But the group that surveyed the teachers didn't publish the results in its report on Trump-related "hate crimes."The Southern Poverty Law Center partnered with the American Federation of Teachers, which formally endorsed Hillary Clinton, to circulate the questionnaire among its 1.6 million mostly Democratic members. The survey was sent out to K-12 teachers and administrators who subscribe to its "Teaching Tolerance" newsletter.
The SPLC's widely cited report -- "The Trump Effect: The Impact of the 2016 Presidential Election on Our Nation's Schools" -- reported that 40 percent of the more than 10,000 educators who responded to the survey "have heard derogatory language directed at students of color, Muslims, immigrants and people based on gender or sexual orientation."
The takeaway was that Trump-supporting white kids have been harassing minorities at the nation's schools. And SPLC's schools report, along with a broader report on alleged Trump-inspired hate crimes -- "Ten Days After: Harassment and Intimidation in the Aftermath of the Election" -- sparked breathless coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post and other major media.
The reports also triggered a statement Friday from the US Commission on Civil Rights, which expressed "deep concern" that "prejudice has reared its ugly head in public elementary and secondary schools." The panel called for more federal funding to prosecute "hate crimes."
But the SPLC didn't present the whole story. The Montgomery, Ala.-based nonprofit self-censored results from a key question it asked educators -- whether they agree or disagree with the following statement: "I have heard derogatory language or slurs about white students."
Asked last week to provide the data, SPLC initially said it was having a hard time getting the information "from the researchers." Pressed, SPLC spokeswoman Kirsten Bokenkamp finally revealed that "about 20 percent answered affirmatively to that question."
Bokenkamp did not provide an explanation for the absence of such a substantial metric -- at least 2,000 bias-related incidents against white students -- from the report, which focuses instead on "anti-immigrant sentiment," "anti-Muslim sentiment" and "slurs about students of color" related to the election.
"They left that result out because it would not fit their ideological narrative," former Education Department civil rights attorney Hans Bader said. "It was deemed an inconvenient truth."
Flashback: Biden partnered with the SPLC to "enforce civil rights law." You know, anyone acting as an agent of the state is restricted by all the laws and rules that cops are bound by, right? Did you remember that, Biden and SPLC? I bet that slipped your mind.
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Buzzfeed: "Secret" Signs (and Stuff We Just Imagined In Our SSRI-Drenched Pea-Brains) That a Woman Might be a Far Right Extremist
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I think the most obvious indicators are that her hair is a natural color, that she doesn't have a 56-year-old male news editor's busted hairline from being high to the gills on SSRIs, and doesn't have more metal in her face than Pinhead -- excuse me, "The Hell Priest."
But Buzzfeed asked its experts -- its underemployed ill-educated idiot readers, I mean -- to provide less subtle clues and here's what the Damaged Brain Trust came up with.
We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share subtle signs that a woman is right-wing (because a lot of people had thoughts about how to tell if men are secretly Republicans). Here's what they shared:
1. "Women who are conservative tend to be cagey about answering how they voted, or say they are 'not very political' and feign being moderate. (Honestly, all conservative folks can have a tendency to do this if they think their honest answer won't be well received.)"
--Anonymous, 40, Non-binary, Texas
I mean yes, because all conservatives, male and female, know that you are psychotic basket-cases who will have possibly-violent meltdowns in public if you hear that someone doesn't support your Manson Cult Satanic Religion.
Well-spotted. One point to Slytherin for successfully noticing the most obvious thing in the world.
2. "One sign is when women make excuses for bad male behavior or still support public figures who have allegations of abuse or right-wing ideals. I think right-wing women are really just pick-mes that grew up in and still live around a predominantly right-wing community. I think of it more like Stockholm Syndrome when a woman is really hardcore MAGA. They are more likely to choose not to see or acknowledge negative traits in the men in their lives because narratives of 'women are crazy' or 'make things up' are just the norm."--Anonymous, 29, Woman, Salt Lake City, Utah
Yes, only a small number of drug-addicted lesbians are Republican.
3. "If a woman doesn't like the Barbie movie or Taylor Swift, ask why. Usually, that will give you your answer. It's OK to have different tastes, but if the reason you don't like them is specifically that they are overtly feminist or for women and girls, then we have a problem."--Anonymous, 29, Woman, Salt Lake City Utah
Glad to see that left-wing women continue focusing on what really matters, Taylor Swift, the Barbie movie, and other Regime-approved celebrity twaddle to fill their empty heads with.
4. "A sign a woman is right-wing is when you joke about or even just mention some current internet claim about a falsity propounded by hardline far-righters, and she goes quiet or says, 'I don't want to talk about that now.' Evading a potentially unpleasant conversation to keep fake social propriety is a society-supported female role, and she might not want to shift the current balance to defend far-right opinions and escalate."--Anonymous, 70s, Female, Midwest
Yes, this has already been covered, but when a stranger begins babbling about her Cult Doctrine and daring us to dispute the Wisdom of Satan, many of us don't feel like dealing with you insane bitches so we say "Yeah, listen, we'd love to stand around and chat, but we've gotta... sit down in the lobby and wait for the limo". (Know the reference?)
5. "One indicator is what's on her dating profile. If she lists her religion but not political views, or makes an apathetic 'not political' nonsense claim, that's usually a sign."--Anonymous, 41, Male, United States
Yes again, you have successfully noticed that given that media and social media (and government bureaucracies) are all captured by leftwing lunatics, we are forced to hide like... well, I won't say like who. Let's just say we know better than to publicly identify ourselves.
A couple of ones saying that you can tell a Republican woman because she knows that women aren't men and men aren't women:
6. "I think one subtle sign of a Republican woman is hyper-criticism of nontraditional gender roles. I was watching a show with a woman, and she immediately started going off about a person we saw on TV at a bar. The person on the TV show had short hair but feminine facial features and a masculine clothing style. The woman I was sitting next to started saying, 'I don't know what 'that' is.' I did not find out this person's political stance, but I think criticizing someone's appearance because they do not fit into binary categories is a red flag. The woman felt the need to declare this even though no one asked for her opinion."--Anonymous, 33, Female, DC
7. "Sometimes a sign is if she says she loves 'masculine men.'"
--Anonymous, 48, Male, Texas
I don't think this Anonymous Male has been accused of being a masculine man.
8. "An indicator is if they have strong feelings of support for Johnny Depp during and after the Amber Heard trial."--Anonymous, 35, Female, Australia
Yes because he was innocent and the victim of defamation and a jury found this to be the case. Republican women do, in fact, believe in facts, not just ideological communist imperatives that they bend reality to comport with.
9. "When they refuse to see gender as part of any experience of harm that you recount to them, that's a clue."
--Anonymous, 32, Colorado
No comment. Because I don't really know what this means, except that I suspect it's a "gender"-obsessive transgender who gets mad when perfect strangers don't want to hear hour-long screeds about them's thoughts about what "gender" is and isn't.
10. "Women who say, 'I don't follow politics, I just vote for whoever my husband (or father) tells me to vote for' are probably voting Republican."--Anonymous, 67, Female, Arkansas, USA
Yes this didn't happen. This is what your ideological conditioning tells you happens, and then you get outraged by these Phantoms you have made up.
11. "If she uses the terms 'both sides' or 'meeting in the middle' or 'reaching across the aisle,' then she might be right-wing."--Anonymous, 55, Female, Minnesota
Yes, Republican women tend to even-handed and view the specific facts and parties in a controversy rather than just Going Tribal and insisting that one side is 100% right because of Race Gender and Sexuaiity.
14. "One sign is if she judges another woman for how many relationships she's been in or if she has casual sex. Just mind your own business."--Anonymous, 24, Female, Chicago
Yes, Republican women are less likely to be Scabcrotch Dirthookers and, in cases where a Republican woman has accumulated a bodycount larger than she's comfortable with, she has the good sense to keep that detail quiet and not tell the world what a filthy degenerate slambeast she used to be.
And by the way: You also judge women by their whorishness, or else this wouldn't be a concern to you.
15. "Women who put 'moderate' on their dating profiles are a red flag. I think anyone who labels themselves moderate in these times is doing that because they're aware of how being a conservative can be perceived these days."--Anonymous, 26, Male, Chicago, Illinois
Once again: Anyone who isn't a rabid and shrieking Gay Race Communist must be a Republican. Anyone who doesn't fully embrace the Great Gay Race Communist Cause is a subversive and traitor and wrecker. Not giving a shit about your stupid cult makes them an enemy of your stupid cult.
18. "One indicator is if she pressures other women into motherhood."--Anonymous, 30, Female, NYC
How does that happen, exactly? You don't mean she "pressures" you into motherhood, you mean merely that she talks about her own children and that makes you feel bad for having a womb filled with the ghosts of aborted babies.
It's a "microaggression" for a mother to speak of her children. Meanwhile, if you come within 100 yards of the, you have to hear all about their designer sexuality and bespoke pronouns.
19. "One clue is if she says she's independent and won't tell you who she voted for."--Anonymous, 64, Female, Atlanta, GA, United States
This is the sixth repetition of the exact same point. Does Buzzfeed have editors?
I retract the question. Of course Buzzfeed has no editors. Fucking NBC and CNN and the NYT don't have editors, why would Buzzfeed?
20. "If she calls non-straight sexual orientations a 'lifestyle,' that's a big sign."--Anonymous, 69, Female, Lancaster, PA
Is this now some kind of slur now too, dummy? What should it be called? A "life-fact"?
Here are some more signs. Republican women don't do this:
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Tucker Carlson Is Scraping and Clawing and Suing His Sister to Claim a $2,414 Monthly Payment from the Swanson Family Fortune His Sister Says He's Not Even Entitled To?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I've linked Malcolm and Simone from Based Camp before. Commenters said "who are those lefties with the huge Power Spectacles" and yeah, they do look like total lefties, but they are deeply #Based.
Anyway, discussing Tucker Carlson, Malcolm said that he didn't really believe the take that "Tucker is independently wealthy due to his family fortune and hence is not bribable by Qatar" because he's not actually an heir to that fortune. One can be part of a family without being an heir to the rich members of that family.
Not that he was saying Tucker Carlson was being bribed by Qatar -- just that he doesn't have the big pile of money people assume he does, which would make him un-bribable.
Based on this article from the Daily Mail sent by beckster: Tucker is only getting $2,144 per month, and he has to lodge lawsuits just to get that much. So he doesn't seem to even have enough Podcast Money to just tell his sister, "Take the $2,144 per month, I need it not."
Chances are Tucker Carlson didn't eat many TV dinners growing up.
He's also not missing many meals now. He's a Hungry Man Sirloin Steak Dinner with Brownie 4.
Yeah I'm rating dudes now too, who cares, half of you say I'm gay despite me being so straight I singe quim at 40 paces.
But according to the sister he barely acknowledges, he now wants more than his share.The multi-millionaire former Fox News host is embroiled in a bitter he-says-she-says battle with his heiress stepsister Dr Roberta 'Bo' Hunt, over the Swanson TV dinner family fortune she claims he is not entitled to, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.
Tucker insists he doesn't want the money, yet his name appears in court documents demanding $2,414 a month.
Is it that bad, Tuq'r? You have to fight a woman for rent money?
Hunt is the only biological child of Patricia Swanson Carlson, heiress to the Swanson frozen food firm famed for its iconic foil-wrapped dinners of the 1950s. Patricia adopted Tucker and his brother Buckley in 1979.When the Daily Mail asked him about the stepsister he grew up with, Tucker claimed: 'I don't know who this person is really.'
But we clearly touched a nerve. 'She's bonkers,' claimed the 56-year-old former Fox News host, denying any knowledge of the legal wrangling.
For her part, Hunt, 61, a Georgia-based college professor, decided to step out of the shadows armed with a trove of family photos, financial records, and a legal complaint stating Tucker has been wrongfully receiving their late mother's inheritance.
'I'm not saying I hate him or that he's a bad person,' Hunt told the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview. 'I just want him to do what he knows is the right thing.'
Hunt's lawsuit against the TV star boils down to a sibling squabble over less than $2,500 per month, marking an ignominious decline for the Swanson family, once revered in Nebraska for their success and philanthropy.
Hunt claimed in a 2024 legal complaint that Tucker and his brother Buckley have improperly received a total of $21,727 each from her mother's trust since she died in 2023, arguing that the document written by her grandfather says the money should only go to blood descendants of the Swanson line, not adoptees.
It's possible that Tucker signed the documents because his ne'er-do-well, ne're-employed idiot Nazi brother needs the money.
Tuq'r keeps saying the doesn't talk to this woman, which is odd, because the questions seem to be whether he filed a legal motion to take $2,414 per month from her, not whether he talks to her or not.
...The Swansons' holdings were estimated to be in excess of $100 million at the time, almost a billion dollars in today's money, after the sale of their food business to Campbell's Soup Company.
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So when 18-year-old daughter Patricia announced to her father that she had secretly married beau Howard Feldman, Gilbert felt the need to scramble to protect the family legacy.
He demanded his daughter sign over control of her inheritance to the family lawyers, then set up a trust that stipulated Swanson riches could only pass to grandchildren 'born in lawful wedlock', according to Hunt's 2024 lawsuit.
The Carlson brothers' entry to the Swanson family was a little more turbulent than 'lawful wedlock'.
After majoring in architecture at UC Berkeley, Lombardi met and married Tucker's father, TV newsman Dick Carlson, and moved to Los Angeles, where she had the two boys.
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According to Dick's divorce filings, Lombardi also fell into 'alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine abuse' that 'left her incapable of properly caring' for the children.
Tucker put it succinctly in his father's obituary: 'His wife departed for Europe and didn't return.'
So, Tuq'r's mom was a bohemian pot-head who fucked off to Europe, abandoning them, and then, long story short, Tuq'r's father had an affair Patricia Swanson, then married to another man. Later they married and Patricia adopted the Nepo Babies Tuq'r and Buckley, but the grandfather apparently didn't want them included in the family's trust.
Once ensconced in La Jolla, the Carlson pad became the venue for high society dinner parties where future California Governor Pete Wilson and author Theodore Geisel -- aka Dr Seuss -- were regulars.
Two streets away lived Patricia, married by then to architect George Hunt, and their teenage daughter, Roberta.
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But Hunt says her father left her mother after she and Tucker's dad began an affair.
Dick moved in with his two sons around 1977, leaving Hunt feeling like 'an afterthought' in the family throughout her teenage years. Patricia adopted the Carlson boys in 1979.
'It was all about Dick Carlson and his boys,' Hunt, a Georgia Military College professor, said. 'Whenever anything would go wrong, I was always the one who got in trouble.'
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Asked by the Daily Mail whether he grew up living in the same home as Hunt, Tucker took on an indignant tone, characteristic of his expressive on-screen persona, and replied: 'No!'
'I've had no contact with this person in more than 30 years,' he added, claiming he last saw her 'in the 1980s', and that 'I don't know who this person is really.'
Yeah but are you filling motions to grab that $2,414 or not? That's the question. No one cares whether you're friendly with your adopted half-sister. That's not the story here.
This is just Tuq'r's usual dishonesty and evasiveness.
And evidence does shoe them together sixteen years ago:
[R]ecent pictures show Hunt and her children dining with Tucker and his family at an Easter brunch in Washington, DC, around 2008 and hanging out with Tucker's wife at his home around 2010....'I don't know why he would lie about it,' Hunt said.
Because lying is a drug that Tuq'r got addicted to long ago. Like he got addicted to booze and, I'll warrant, drugs.
...Hunt claimed that on one occasion in the years before her mother's death, Patricia and Buckley asked her and her cousins to sign papers that would confirm the inclusion of the Carlsons in the Swanson grandchildren's trusts.
She alleges a trust established by her grandfather specifically bans inheritance by anyone other than blood relatives, excluding adopted family members.
And she makes it clear the lawsuit is personal, pointing out that the Carlsons never knew her grandfather, the source of the disputed legacy, while to her, he was 'Big Poppa'.
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Tucker claims he has had nothing to do with the trust or the court case.'I have never taken a dollar of the money,' he said. 'I'm not involved in any way. I have never responded to anything.'
But filings from 2025, submitted on his behalf without a lawyer, acknowledged it is 'true' he received thousands a month from the trust.
Later filings say he and his brother hired attorneys who are taking the case to trial in August.
So again, this doesn't prove he's being paid off -- but it does disprove the claim that he is so rich due to his dad marrying into the Swanson fortune that he would never be tempted to take money from a foreign power or play to the algorithm to boost his ratings.
Below: Tuq'r is angry at Trump for focusing all of his attention on Israel.
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Sickening: "Teen" Demands Girl Date Him, Then Bodyslams Her and Stomps Her Head Into the Concrete When She Refuses
—Disinformation Expert Ace
There was a guy who used to appear on Ethan Van Sciver's livestreams, a British guy named "Captain Chokeout." Not his real name, I don't think.
Captain Chokeout said that he had been sent to prison for a serious charge, either attempted murder or assault with a deadly weapon. Because he had been a bit of a soccer hooligan, if I remember right, and had gotten into a fight and kicked a guy in the head when he was on the ground.
And in the UK, he explained, a kick to the head of a downed opponent was considered attempted murder. (Or maybe "assault with a deadly weapon," the kick being the deadly weapon in this situation.)
I say that just to emphasize that a kick to the head of an opponent on the ground. We don't have this rule in the US, I don't think, but other countries do consider it attempted murder. It's a serious attack that can kill someone.
Meanwhile, in the US, since George Floyd killed himself by being 320 pounds and a drug addict, blue cities have created a de facto rule that black thugs are allowed to take "Street Reparations" on whites who "disrespect" them with no consequences or minimal consequences. By "Street Reparations," I mean an unconstitiution and incivil scheme permitting some favored members of the Democrat coalition of criminals and pirates to attack and beat someone from an unfavored group according to how much he believes he's entitled to fist-and-kick unofficial-but-approved "reparations" against another race at that moment.
Remember Trayvon Martin, repeatedly smashing George Zimmerman's head into the concrete --- attempted murder -- because Zimmerman dared to exercise the usual, lawful functions of a neighborhood watch? And the entire left insisted he was justified in this attempted murder, and that George Zimmerman should have allowed himself to be killed rather than shooting the young thug?
Street Reparations.
And this is consequence of that.
I won't call it an "unintended consequence."
It is a perfectly intended consequence.
Sickening video shows NYC teen stomp on girl's head-- after she refused to give him her number
The post doesn't specify the races of the perp and victim. I will: It's a black thug demanding a white girl give him her phone number (and give him "respect" as a thug-harasser) and then violently attacking her when she attempts to flee.
Disgusting video shows a teen slamming a girl to the ground and stomping on her head after she refused to give him her phone number, according to police and sources.
"According to police?" It's on video.
Video circulating on social media shows the 14-year-old brute confronting the 15-year-old girl on the corner of East 107th Street and 3rd Avenue in East Harlem around 3:30 p.m. Monday after school got out.
The 14-year-old Gentle Giant is a full head taller than the little girl he bodyslammed and attempted to kill.
And why did he think he was entitled to do this? Because the Gay Race Communist left told him he was entitled to do this.
But I hear he's really been "trying to turn his live around" since the attempted murder two days ago. He's thinking about becoming a rapper and applying to CUNY.
"I'll knock the s--t out of you right now," the bully says as he blocks the girl's path in the crosswalk, while one of his pals eggs him on to "Do it!"
It's just terrific that this wasn't a single lunatic, but a pack of murderers all cheering on the head-stomping of an innocent girl they never met.
"You stand right here," he orders her, pointing at the ground at his feet.She tries to go around him but he puts an arm out and pushes her back, the tense clip shows.
"Get the f--k away from me, p--y," she tells him, turning around and walking away.
The masked goon then grabs her from behind, picks her up in the air and slams her into the pavement, according to the video.
While she lies on the ground helplessly in pain, he stomps on her head and walks away.
The girl suffered a concussion and was taken by EMS to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, police and sources said.
He was arrested. By the way, he was wearing a mask, of course, a pernicious thing the left has allowed precisely to allow criminals to kill people and then get away with it.
This occurred in Soros DA Alvin Bragg's Manhattan-- do you think he's going to throw the book at this thug and the monsters who cheered on the murder of an innocent white girl because she wouldn't fuck them?
Because I don't.
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No Surprise: Democrats Plot and Scheme to Impeach Trump on "Day One" If the American People Are Insane Enough to Give Them Control of Congress
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Democrat communications shop and Eric Swalwell cover-up agency Axios:
A cohort of resistance-minded House Democrats is pushing their colleagues to begin building the case against President Trump now in anticipation of a Day 1 impeachment vote if they retake the House.Why it matters: The mere existence of this movement demonstrates just how much pressure lawmakers who have not yet gotten on board with impeachment will face in January of 2027.
"This is something that I keep saying to our leadership ... we need to have a very concrete, coordinated strategy," Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) told Axios.
The Illinois Democrat said the party should "build up the case so that when we are in power in January, we've created the conditions ... we've done the fact-checking, we've done the shadow hearings, everything we need to be able to to impeach [Trump]."
Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) told Axios that if Democrats recapture the House "the push for impeachment is going to be overwhelming."
Driving the news: A Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll released Tuesday found that 55% of U.S. adults surveyed said the House should vote to impeach Trump, while just 37% oppose it.
"That net +18 verdict," Strength In Numbers author G. Elliott Morris wrote, "puts Trump in the neighborhood of the numbers Richard Nixon saw at the peak of the Watergate scandal in August 1974."
Sure. Axios, of course, which covers up for Democrats like Joe Biden and Eric Swalwell, fails to note that this polling outfit has a strong Democrat bias. Google AI:
Political Context: The poll often finds results where Democrats lead on generic ballots (e.g., +6 to +8 in mid-2025/2026) and where President Trump's approval is relatively low (often in the mid-30s to low-40s)....
Independent, But Not Necessarily "Neutral": While aiming for objective data, the analysis often highlights areas where public opinion diverges from conservative policies (e.g., high support for ACA subsidies, raising taxes on corporations). It also notes that independent voters are heavily skewed away from Republicans (-30 net rating in some reports), which informs its findings
Again: Sure.
Morris cited Axios' reporting that more than 85 House and Senate Democrats called for Trump to be impeached or removed via the 25th Amendment to the Constitution following his threat to destroy Iran's civilization earlier this month.
The big picture: In the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election, Democrats didn't even want to hear the word impeachment.
"People ridiculed me," said Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), who was the first Democrat to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump last year.
When Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) forced a vote on impeaching Trump last June, 128 Democrats voted with Republicans to quash the effort while just 78 voted to advance it.Things have changed drastically. When Green forced another vote to impeach Trump last December, his support went from 78 Democrats to 140.
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Said Thanedar: "We have a case -- a very strong case -- so we should really work on it now."
Yes, but: Just because a member supports impeachment when asked -- or when forced to go on the record in a House vote -- doesn't mean they think it should be a policy priority for their party.
Yeah, this is just other Democrats attempting to tamp down talk of impeachment for fear of energizing Trump supporters. It's a lie. They will in fact impeach Trump on day one, or at the latest, by the end of month one.
This will probably benefit us. Trump's voters don't vote unless Trump himself is on the ballot, which is why we either lose or gas out in the midterms.
But Democrats just put Trump on the ballot for the midterms.
Oh Dear! NYT Cries That the DOJ Is Increasing the Rate of Denaturalizations of Dirty Terrorist and Piratical Foreigners Who Lied During Their Naturalization Process
—Disinformation Expert Ace
We need every single terrorist plunderer Cultural Enricher the world will give us!!!
Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization The Trump administration is assigning denaturalization cases to regular prosecutors, which could lead to a surge of people stripped of U.S. citizenship.The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations by assigning the cases to prosecutors in dozens of U.S. attorney's offices across the country.
Senior Justice Department officials in Washington told colleagues during a meeting last week that civil litigators in 39 regional offices would soon be assigned to file denaturalization cases against the individuals, according to an official familiar with the announcement who was not authorized to describe it on the record. Two people familiar with the plans confirmed the broader effort to ramp up denaturalizations. It was not clear what led the department to target the 384 individuals.
Is it really not clear? I notice this is a favorite tactic of the communist propaganda media, claiming they don't know what would possibly cause people to suspect Jihadi Mohammad might not be a great American citizen.
By the way, saying it's "not clear" is a very deceptive weasley construction. They know why these people are being targeted for naturalization, but say it's "not clear," which means that if it's proved later they knew the reasons, they can just say "well we didn't know all the details, which meets the requirements to say it's 'not clear.'"
Under federal law, the government may ask a court to strip the citizenship of people who obtained it fraudulently -- for instance, by entering into a sham marriage or by withholding information about their past that would have made them ineligible. Some who commit crimes may also be denaturalized. The government must present evidence to a federal judge through a civil or criminal proceeding, making the process challenging and time-consuming.
Well that seems pretty clear doesn't it?
Traditionally, experts in the department's office of immigration litigation have handled denaturalization cases. But the effort to enlist regular prosecutors to pursue these cases could lead to a surge in denaturalizations, which have been rare in recent decades. It also comes just months after Trump administration officials ordered Department of Homeland Security staffers to refer upward of 200 denaturalization cases a month to the DOJ.Matthew Tragesser, a Justice Department spokesman, said that officials were "pursuing the highest volume of denaturalization referrals in history" from the Department of Homeland Security.
"The Department of Justice is laser focused on rooting out criminal aliens defrauding the naturalization process," he added.
Again, this all seems pretty clear to me.
So what the NYT is saying is that they don't know the exact charges for all 384 of the people being denaturalized. Hence, it's "not clear."
"Citizenship fraud is a serious crime; anyone who has broken the law and obtained citizenship through fraud and deceit will be held accountable," said Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman.The push indicates that the Trump administration aims to make good on its plan to increase the pace of denaturalizations as part of its crackdown on immigration. The move will likely scare many naturalized immigrants as the Trump administration has sought to curtail immigration across the board and spoken disdainfully about migrants from certain countries.
"The message it sends is that naturalized citizens don't have the same rights and stability as native-born citizens," said Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia. "The government has used this power in the past to target people it views as political opponents."
They don't, because foreigners granted citizenship through naturalization can be denaturalized if they have been found to lie in their paperwork. Natural born American citizens cannot be so denaturalized (though if they could be, I've got a little list). Hence they do not have the "same rights and stability."
And these are not "political opponents," these are fraudsters, pirates, plunderers, and terrorists. They are enemies of the vast majority of Americans -- which makes them, naturally, key allies of the communist, civilization-razing left.
Let me repeat a joke from yesterday: The New York Times is like Freddy Mercury came all over Richard Gere's gerbil and they pumped Rod Stewart's stomach and found the lining was made up 100% of cum-cells.
Eric Schmitt @Eric_SchmittWe must be unapologetic about this: denaturalization is a constitutional, long-established tool for stripping citizenship from people who should've never received it
Citizenship is more than paperwork
We should expand denaturalizations. It's why I've filed the SCAM Act
Hello! Happy Friday!
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MORNING RANT: The Virginia Redistricting Vote, Arlington & Alexandria Retrocession, and DC Statehood
—Buck Throckmorton
As anyone who reads political blogs knows, voters in Virginia just approved* a redistricting plan that is designed to change its 11-person congressional delegation from a 6/5 Democrat/Republican split to a new map with a 10/1 split. This is being done by carving up the very blue Washington DC suburbs and attaching those hard-left voters to rural red counties. Fairfax County alone will be part of five different congressional districts. (*As Ace has documented, the redistricting election is facing challenges in Virginia courts.)
There has been much chatter since the election about having President Trump punch back by contesting the 19th century retrocession of Arlington and Alexandria from Washington DC to Virginia. The District was established in 1790 from land ceded by Maryland and Virginia, and was originally square in shape, straddling both shores of the Potomac River. But as Matt Margolis explains in this Townhall piece, the District had abolished slavery, so in 1847 the Virginia portion was retroceded back to Virginia to protect the slaveholders in Alexandria and Arlington. Several presidents since then have challenged the constitutionality of that action, and the U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on it.
Since Alexandria and Arlington are populated by people who are dependent on Washington, returning those counties to DC would be an overdue homecoming.
In the 2024 presidential election, Arlington and Alexandria voted for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump at a ratio of 78% to 19%, with a margin of 121,000 votes. Although that number exceeds the margin of vote difference in this week’s redistricting vote, it would not have been enough in 2024. Kamala won Virginia by 259,000 votes, receiving 52% of the ballots cast counted.
Fairfax County is the great blue whale in Virginia. Fairfax voted 66% for Kamala in 2024, and provided her a massive 209,000 vote margin. Fairfax needs to be given to DC too.
DC statehood is a generally awful idea that won’t go away, and the next time Democrats control all levers of government, they plan to stuff it down our throats, with the intention of getting two more senators. But – DC statehood could be a politically helpful thing if we could just include Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax in the new state, which I’ll call “WaNoVa DC” for simplicity. Throwing Loudon County and Prince William County into the new state would leave Virginia beet red.
Here is what would really be great – the two current Democrat senators from Virginia actually represent metro DC, and they could continue to do so if they run for Senate from the new state. Virginia meanwhile would suddenly get two new Republican senators. The net result of WaNoVa DC statehood in the US Senate would be two new Senators, but they’d both be Republicans, not Democrats! Virginia would also then be free to elect an overwhelmingly Republican congressional delegation too, rather than being shut out as was voted for this past week.
At a bare minimum, simply returning Alexandria and Arlington to DC would make Virginia a purplish state rather than a blue state. Retrocession is a legitimate option that Republicans need to push. It also needs to be a poison pill inserted into any discussion of DC statehood.
Other Stuff I’m Writing About
My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “Under the Radar of the ‘Doomcasting’ Media, There Is Massive Industrial Investment Occurring in the U.S.” discusses the explosive industrial growth occurring in the U.S., and how companies engaged in industrial construction are seeing record sales and a huge backlog of new orders.
The media will not stop trying to spin economic news as being bad for President Trump, but the simple fact is that his effort to re-shore American industry is proving wildly successful. The explosive industrial growth in the U.S. and the cheap natural gas to fuel it have put us in a position for a period of remarkable economic growth and job creation.
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 has been published, “Under the Radar of the ‘Doomcasting’ Media, There Is Massive Industrial Investment Occurring in the U.S.”https://t.co/TA9JRhuQL3
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) April 24, 2026
[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
The Morning Report — 4/ 24/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids, In yesterday's editorial, I took the good people of Virginia to task for allowing the abject abomination of Abigail Spanberger's and her coven of Democrats' naked power grab gerrymandering bill to pass. I perhaps wrongly stated that their apathy or absence at the polls was a primary reason that this happened. Commenter "Washington Nearsider" who I assume used on his handle is more in tune with the goings on in Virginia than I am, and objected to my assessment by pointing out:
Rural Virginians voted in higher numbers than in the 2024 presidential election. We all knew what was at stake.
And so with that, I apologize to the good folk of the Old Dominion for doing their part. So if turnout, or my presumed lack thereof, wasn't the reason this passed, then how did it happen? Yes, the state and national GOP were and are useless both before and during election season as well as once in office in advancing the American agenda. So what happened here? Did the Democrats steal this one? and/or is there something else that accounts for this abomination that we're missing? Given what's at stake going forward to the midterms and beyond, we better get a handle on this, not that the aforementioned Grifting Oleaginous Parasite party will or even has the desire to, so there it is.
As noted yesterday, this insanity is already in the courts and no doubt will ultimately wind up at the SCOTUS, which given the unpredictability of the court, that is the unpredictability primarily of non-overtly Marxist fraud hacks in black, allegedly conservative justices, the superstar Clarence Thomas for sure notwithstanding and maybe Samuel Alito as well. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett and Roberts are reliably unreliable at best.
During the national debates of 1788, the great Virginian James Madison worried that mere “parchment barriers,” or constitutions, wouldn’t be enough to stop an “overbearing majority” from seeking power and stripping minorities of their voice and rights.What he envisioned, in other words, was someone like Abigail Spanberger.
Virginia’s current governor recently signed a bill making her state the 18th to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a scheme to circumvent the Constitution and award all electoral votes to the presidential ticket with the highest national vote total — rather than to the candidate who won the state’s election. . .
. . . Democrats have also convinced half the country that the Electoral College’s undercutting of the popular vote is an antiquated quirk of the Constitution. . .
. . . Anyway, we are inching closer to a true constitutional crisis. The member states of the compact don’t have to send their votes to the “popular vote” winner until the coalition reaches an Electoral College majority of 270. . .
. . . Then again, in the end, the Constitution is only as good as the people.
And that doesn’t bode well for its survival these days.
Basta cosi. UPDATE: a few commenters have reminded me that Virginia allows MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and so that explains everything. I should've known as much, And so it goes!
Hasan Piker sparked backlash on Wednesday when he argued that Luigi Mangione allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson because he committed “social murder.”
...Piker, a Twitch streamer, said Americans “understand” why Luigi Mangione allegedly killed Thompson due to the CEO’s alleged role in “social murder.” “Friedrich Engels wrote about the concept of social murder. And Brian Thompson, as the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder,” Piker claimed in an interview with the New York Times podcast The Opinions.
The ironically-named Piker blathered on about this:
...On the NYT podcast Piker and a writer from the New Yorker were asked to mull on such complex questions as whether it is OK to steal and whether it is OK to murder. . .. . .The answer to both of these questions appears to be “Yes.”
On the first question it turns out that there are certain stores which it is more moral to steal from than others. Piker and his fellow guest agreed that Whole Foods is especially OK to steal from. A small business is less OK to steal from. But listeners were never treated to an explanation of which shops might be on the borderline between being a place where you could help yourself to a five-finger-discount and those where you couldn’t.
That is because neither Piker nor the other people in the studio seemed to have a very stable set of ethics.
Well at least we've seen the last of the SPLC... Meh, I'm not holding my breath. The Berlin Wall might have fallen, but the communists are alive and well and metastasizing right here at home!
Have a great weekend!
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- Today we're going to go, one-by-one, through all of the scientists who have allegedly been killed, or died under suspicious circumstances.
Here’s What Nobody’s Telling You About The ‘Missing Scientists’ Cases
- A global hydra of tyrannies—from Caracas to Tehran to Beijing—spreads violence and narcotics abroad while its most dangerous head persists within America itself.
Grappling with Hydras
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Daily Tech News 24 April 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- The French government agency that manages national IDs, passports, and immigration documents was hacked because of course it was. (Tech Crunch)
You can't paint a bigger target on your back than that, really.
ANTS - the agency is really called that - wouldn't say how many people were affected by the breach, but a hacker is suddenly offering an ANTS database with 19 million records for sale, so at a guess, around 19 million.
- The command line tool for the Bitwarden password manager was compromised. (Socket)
So. Turns out maybe you can paint a bigger target on your back than just being a national identity register.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - April 23, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
From NATURE
Welcome to the Thursday ONT for this week. Glad you could make it. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Found Family Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Kyoto
@da_frames
You know those Mouse commercials from Japan? The "idol" group featured there is called Nogizaka46, and they've done a lot of commercials. It's amazing -- they're obviously alluring, and yet they're not presenting themselves as America pop princesses do, like they're, what's the word, Dirty Trash Scabcrotch Dirthookers.
Hugs are better than drugs. Do you hear that, JackStraw?
Cats: We sleep in all sorts of alarming positions. Babies: Hold our beer.
Probably AI but you got me.
Puppy and baby grow up together.
Hooboy, those truck emergency turn-off lanes are not just there for show.
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—Disinformation Expert Ace
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Salmon given cocaine work harder than those without cocaine, according to researchers at the University of No Fuckin' Duh, Chester.
Salmon exposed to cocaine swim almost twice as far as those without, study showsSalmon exposed to cocaine in the water swim longer distances than those that go without, according to a study released this week.
I love you, Science.
Cocaine use is on the rise worldwide, with the U.N. reporting an estimated 25 million people used the stimulant in 2023 and the drug being increasingly found in waterways.Joint research released Monday by scientists at Australia's Griffith University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences studied how the drug affected the movements of wild fish in their natural habitats.
Researchers took 105 wild Atlantic salmon in Sweden's Lake Vattern and exposed them to both cocaine and benzoylecgonine -- a metabolite created by the drug in the liver -- and then tracked their movements.
They found the river-dwellers exposed to the drugs traveled 1.9 times farther per week than their clean-living control cousins.
Those exposed to the by-product also swam 7.6 miles farther, the study found.
How much medical-grade cocaine do you think is "naturally" lost in experiments like this? Is a 20% unexplained loss of cocaine a reasonable figure?
Steven Greene had a good headline at Instapundit: THEY ALSO WON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT THEIR NEW IDEA FOR A TECH STARTUP.
Thanks to Chuck Martel.
Also in from the University of No Fuckin' Duh, Chester: Germany's back-to-back abandonment of both coal and then nuclear was a "huge mistake," leading authorities say.
German energy minister calls nuclear phase-out 'huge mistake'Katherina Reiche, Germany's economy and energy minister, discussed the likely impact on the country's economy if the Iran conflict continues - as well as the need for a "correction" to energy policies in Europe, at a conference in the USA.
Speaking at the CERAweek international energy event in Houston, Texas, she said that prices of petrol, diesel and jet fuels in Germany were spiking "but we don't see any scarcities in terms of volume - but if the conflict doesn't end we [will] see this probably later in April or May".
She added that the longer the crisis continues the more stress will be put on the "fragile recovery of Germany's economy".
Please please please Trump keep the conflict going at least through June. (So close to Pride Month!)
Remember when people used to respect Germans as sober-minded and good at things? Ye Olden Times.
Here's the history. In 1790, both Virginia and Maryland ceded territory to create the new national capital. Virginia's portion -- what is now Arlington County and the city of Alexandria -- remained part of the District of Columbia until 1847, when Congress returned it to Virginia. The reason? To protect slavery. The District had abolished it, and Virginia slaveholders didn't want to give up their slaves. Democrats love to talk about the legacy of slavery to justify tearing down statues, renaming buildings, etc. -- to be consistent, they should give that piece of land back to the District.The legal questions over this retrocession have never gone away. President William Howard Taft and others argued that it was unconstitutional and pushed to reclaim the land for D.C. However, the Supreme Court has never definitively settled the matter.
Mizelle's proposal is for Trump to issue an executive order declaring that slavery-motivated retrocession unconstitutional. That order wouldn't need to resolve everything on its own -- it would immediately trigger litigation and force federal courts to finally answer the question: Do Arlington and Alexandria legally belong to Virginia or to the District of Columbia?
The legal footing here is rock solid, but the cultural argument is just as strong.
Obviously, with Alexandria and Arlington re-added to DC -- as it should be -- Virginia would be permanently red again. Oh, it would lose a couple of seats in the next redistricting, but worth it.
But wouldn't DC pick up a couple of electoral votes? No, not necessarily. DC's electoral votes are established by legislative fiat, not by a count of DC's population.
Storied men's haberdasher (did I use that right?) Brooks Brothers has gone bankrupt because, as Stephen Green says, "American men now insist on dressing like 14 year olds into their dotage."
So they're trying something new.
But as the 55-year-olds dressing like 14-year-olds say: This ain't it, Chief.
Remember in the late eighties when we thought, for literally five minutes, that two-tone jeans -- half blue, half white or half blue, half black -- were rilly rilly cool? I remember owning a pair just because they went out of fashion so quickly that stores were choked with unsalable jeans and I picked up a pair for like six buck.
And then I didn't wear them, because they're stupid. And what the hell, it was only six buck.
Well Brooks Brothers remembers.
Brooks Brothers, you better Swatch yourself!!!
Old Brooks Brothers: Not exciting but never actually unfashionable
New Brooks Brothers: Will you be a hon and stir my Amaretto Zima with your dick?
Like eight years ago I wanted to buy some new togs so I went into J. Crew, figuring, well, J. Crew will always be J. Crew. Good stuff, overpriced but good.
Nope. It was like Freddy Mercury came all over Richard Gere's gerbil and then they pumped Rod Stewart's stomach and found it was literally made of cum-cells.
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China Made a Ton of Risky Loans to Third-World Nations to Bring Them Under Its Sphere of Influence. Now Those Loans are Turning Bad.
China Wants the US to Bail It Out.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Why Trump is doing this, I have no idea. I saw someone saying that he inherited this position from Biden's Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, but that doesn't seem like a good reason to keep it.
President Trump is scheduled to visit Beijing in May for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and he will come bearing at least one surprising gift: A budget request to Congress to hand more money to Mr. Xi's friends at the International Monetary Fund.We told you recently about the Trump Administration's fiscal 2026 request that Congress endorse a U.S. quota increase of 50%, equivalent to about $55 billion. The quota is a country's contribution to the fund. Congress didn't pass the White House request, but the Administration includes it again in its recent fiscal 2027 proposal.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen initiated the request in the Biden era, and it's hard to understand why the Trump Treasury would endorse it. It's true, as Treasury says, that the U.S. receives an "interest-bearing claim on the IMF" for those assets. But it's not a wash because the interest rate doesn't compensate for the cost of funds or the risk.
More harmful is the cost to U.S. control over IMF resources, which Treasury conceals... What Treasury doesn't disclose is the hit to U.S. power when the IMF gets more of its resources from equity than debt.The fund's use of debt via New Arrangements to Borrow requires 85% approval of voting shares. Since the U.S. has almost 16% of those shares, it has a veto over the use of those resources. It also has an effective veto over Bilateral Borrowing Agreements. But it has no veto power over use of equity--that is, the quota resources.
I think this means that the money we pour into the IMF through this "quota" will be used according to how the multinational organization IMF decides -- and we'll have no say.
And whose power over the use of those funds will increase? Well, China's, of course.
Mr. Xi wants a greater role for China in all multilateral institutions at the expense of U.S. influence. Shifting total fund resources toward quotas would shrink U.S. veto power over IMF resources to 38% from about 60%. IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said recently she's optimistic Congress will pass the increase this year that will bolster the fund's $1 trillion in lending capacity from its own resources, rather than from borrowing over which the U.S. has more influence.That will be welcome news in Beijing, which wants to use the fund to rescue the array of distressed Chinese loans around the world. Let's hope Congress says no again.
I don't know if Trump made this promise to get China to agree to something else. But China's sending dual-use materials to Iran after having vowed that they would not, so I don't see the value of a CCP promise.
Bonchie @bonchieredstate5h
China went around Africa and South America making predatory loans in an attempt to make money and seize infrastructure for the most useful part of its lifespan.
And now it wants others to pay for its bad bets.
We hold 16% of the vote over the IMF. The answer should be no.
Ted Cruz
@tedcruzApr 22
This is a terrible idea.
Congress should say hell NO, to bailing out China.
Related: I give Trump a knock, now I'll give him a plaudit.
Marco Rubio is reportedly about to announce a permanent cut-off of all aid to the Pirate Collective of Somalia after the pirates there demolished a warehouse containing 76 tons of American food aid.
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In Utah, Democrat Women Allege That the Latina Lesbian Running for Congress Sexually Molested Them, Forcing One Up Against the Wall and Demanding She "F***" Her Like a Man: Plus, More Democrat Female Predators
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Democrat feminist and Latina lesbian accused of sexual harassment of women, including one woman she forced against the wall while gripping the victim's throat.
" " " Allegedly. " " " (Touches finger to nose.)
What the **** is going on in Utah?
Four people from Utah political circles -- three of them elected officials -- accuse Eva Lopez Chavez, a Salt Lake City Council member and Democratic congressional candidate, of restraining them during what they considered unwanted sexual advances.Victoria Petro, who is Lopez Chavez's fellow City Council member; Maggie Regier, who worked on Stan Penfold's mayoral campaign in 2019; Hoang Nguyen, who is now a state representative; and Jen Plumb, now a state senator, described their allegations in interviews with The Salt Lake Tribune. Each person said their allegations arose in social settings before Lopez Chavez joined the City Council in 2023.
Petro, Regier and Nguyen said they told others at the time, which The Tribune confirmed.
None of the four reported the interactions to police or spoke about them publicly until now. They said they decided to come forward, in part, because of Lopez Chavez's candidacy for Congress in Utah's new 1st District and after her reaction to newly disclosed online posts that fellow candidate Nate Blouin made between 2009 and 2015, including statements that minimized sexual assault.
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In September 2022, Petro said, she and other council members went to a party after the wedding of a former council member.
At the event, Petro alleges, Lopez Chavez grabbed her by the throat, "pushed me back against a pillar so that my back was against the wall and told me, 'The only reason I still f--- men is because a woman hasn't shown me what I really want.'"
Petro said she froze, but remembers pushing Lopez Chavez's hand away and walking away. She said she told Puy about what she considered to be an assault. Puy confirmed she talked to him shortly after the party, and, he said, Petro "was kind of shocked at what had happened."In her interview with The Tribune, Petro asked, "If a man had done that to me, would there be a question if it was assault or not?"
When Lopez Chavez ran for City Council in 2023, Petro said, she told a few of Lopez Chavez's supporters about what she alleges occurred. Once Lopez Chavez won her council race, the two women met for lunch and Lopez Chavez, Petro said, told her to stop telling people her story.
"At that point, I said, 'You shouldn't have given me a story to tell,'" Petro said. "It's my story."
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State Sen. Jen Plumb, D-Salt Lake City, alleges Lopez Chavez pushed her against a wall at a friend's birthday party in November 2022.
"It absolutely was a sexual advance. She leaned into me, grabbed onto my a--, got up in my face and said in my ear, 'You're sure you're straight?'" Plumb said. "I just pushed her away. Come on. Knock it off."
Plumb said she mostly dismissed it at the time, but now sees it differently.
"I've got to do some work on why I saw it that way, but I would not be comfortable with someone doing that to my daughter, to my mom, my best friends," Plumb said, "and I'm not comfortable with it being brushed away anymore."
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Plumb provided The Tribune with what she said were her most recent text messages from Lopez Chavez. One was an invitation to an event in June 2025, which Plumb said she declined.
She received the second one in February, she said, when Lopez Chavez wrote she had "heard some feedback regarding how you express our professional relationship that doesn't align with my experience" and wanted to meet to discuss it. Plumb, according to the messages she shared, did not respond.
I seem to remember a lot of male sexual assailants contacting their victims later and using the same kind of language -- "hey, I heard you remember things differently than I do, let's meet so I can convince you you're insane."
Nguyen, who is now a state representative, said Lopez Chavez attended a campaign event for Plumb in the Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City in 2022. As Nguyen was leaving the party, she said, Lopez Chavez asked for a ride to her car.
After she drove a few blocks, Nguyen said, Lopez Chavez told her to pull over -- which she did, believing they had arrived at her car. "Next thing I know she has leaned over and she's on top of me, holding my shoulders down," Nguyen said in an interview.
"I said, 'What are you doing?' And she said, 'Kiss me,'" Nguyen said. "She said, 'I'm not going to get off you until you kiss me.' I gave her a peck and she got off."
The next day Nguyen told a mutual friend. The person, a prominent Salt Lake City business owner and community volunteer, confirmed the version of events to The Tribune, which agreed not to name the business owner because they fear retribution.
That one might not be all that serious, compared to the others, but it does demonstrate a consistent pattern of aggressive sexual assault.
She even goes after they/thems.
Regier, who uses they/them pronouns, was working on Stan Penfold's mayoral campaign in 2019 when they went to a Human Rights Campaign fundraising event that Lopez Chavez was also attending, they said. Regier said Lopez Chavez was being "flirty" and led them around the room by the wrist.
Regier tried to deflect Lopez Chavez's attention and excuse herself from the situation, they said, but Lopez Chavez pulled Regier "into a literal corner in the hallway" and pinned them against the wall, refusing to let them leave. A friend of Regier's stepped in and separated them, they said.
Later, Regier was with a friend on the dance floor, they said, "and [Lopez Chavez] was kind of trying to grab on to me and another friend physically stepped between us and pushed her off of me and was like, 'Leave Maggie alone.'"
So close to Pride Month?!?!
SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH, EVA?!!
She denies these allegations -- um, facts -- through her lawyer. Her lawyer, without an ounce of shame, peddles the same "I have other emails in which the victims do NOT accuse her of sexual assault, so that means no sexual assault must have occurred" line that has not worked for male offenders for a decade.
She's Average-Plus looking, a Chipolte 5.25 (they use metric), which I do not think is much consolation to the straight women she sexually assaulted.
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The Democrat Party, AKA The Party of Plunder, Is Now All-In on Shoplifting, Celebrating Rich White Bitches' "Microlooting" Expensive Food from Whole Foods
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Communist jihadist assassination-cheerleader -- and now fully accredited and accepted Democrat Party influencer -- Hasan Piker couldn't wait to endorse more communist looting of the capitalists.
A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker known for bashing capitalism bragged that she has stolen from her local Whole Foods "on several occasions" in a New York Times podcast.Jia Tolentino, 37, made the shocking admission while joining left-wing streamer Hasan Piker and Times' opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman for a Wednesday episode about so-called "microlooting" from mega-corporations.
She looks Asian despite the Italian last name but I'm going to apply Ivy League Admissions rules: You're white enough, bitch.
Besides, in the next article I'll link, rich white bitches are talking up how great shoplifting is.
Examples tossed around by the trio ranged from everyday consumers sharing passwords for streaming services to brazen criminals pilfering paintings from the Louvre Museum.When Spiegelman suggested pocketing produce from Whole Foods, Tolentino confessed she already had "on several occasions."
The scribe said one of her duties as a member of her ritzy Brooklyn neighborhood's mutual aid group was to buy groceries for one of her neighbors, Miss Nancy.
"And so I'd be getting Miss Nancy all of her groceries, and then I would finish, and I'd be like, oh my God, four lemons, I forgot four lemons. And on several occasions I was like, I'm just going to go back in, grab those four lemons and get the hell out," Tolentino said.
"At the time I was like, I had not been to Whole Foods. I had a bit more consumer discipline about where I was spending my money then, and I already felt like I was in the hole, even by shopping there. And it certainly felt, in a utilitarian sense, I was like, this is not a big deal," she added.
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Piker then brushed aside her apparent shoplifting, saying that mega-corporations like Whole Foods have already "factored in" the loss of simple produce so that it won't impact their bottom line.
Ah, the Ghetto Democrat line that it's okay to rob stores during riots because "they're insured." (No, they're not. Almost no one insures their stock. Stealing it is just taking money out of their pockets. And even if it were insured, you'd be forcing them to pay higher insurance rates.)
Piker, a self-proclaimed Communist, also endorsed "full chaos" of shoppers "stealing wantonly" and wholly bypassing the self-checkout machines.When pressed on stealing from government-run grocery stores, like one planned by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Piker and Tolentino faltered.
"No, I would not, because I feel like that's taxpayer-funded, it's union labor, and the prices are also adjusted regardless," Piker said.
From Instapundit, which also links this article from Hot Air about New York magazine celebrating shoplifting as Empowering for Princess.
At Whole Foods, you are apparently being monitored by a swarm of security officers, some of whom wander the aisles in plain clothes, and the company's surveillance tech is improving. When security officers catch you, they will take you to Whole Foods Jail. Sometimes with glee.The Union Square Whole Foods jail is a windowless storage closet near the entrance, says Astrid, a photographer. She mostly remembers the wallpaper: "Layers and layers of grainy faces," she tells Nora Deligter. "All the thieves that had come before me."
A sculptor we'll call Gina found herself in the Bowery Whole Foods Jail. She was late to an Alex G concert at Bowery Ballroom and had decided to slip into Whole Foods for a quick spicy-tuna-roll walk-and-dine. She had a system: Approach the item with confidence, grab it, then head upstairs to the dining area and surreptitiously place it into her bag. But this time, she headed straight for the exit. "A rookie mistake," Gina says.
Gina remembers keeping her head bowed and her eyes low as she was escorted back to Whole Foods Jail. The windowless office was almost too bland to recall, she says, except for a rudimentary banner, that read: ALL SHOPLIFTERS ARE BANNED FROM WHOLE FOODS FOR LIFE. A few weeks later, Gina says her parents received a $90 ticket in the mail from the company.
New York Magazine gives a glowing profile of one such shoplifter, and decries the fact that Whole Foods seems to have a problem with people stealing its food.
How cruel! She was made late to a concert. She paid a lot for those tickets!
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