Daily Tech News 8 November 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Sam Altman's pants are totally on fire. (Marcus on AI)
So, Sam Altman recently said that OpenAI was not asking for government loan guarantees to bail the company out when things blew up in their faces, after Trump Administration AI Czar David Sacks said point-blank that no such guarantees would be forthcoming after OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said that the company was in fact seeking government guarantees for its several septillion dollars in loans, currently backed only by its annual revenues of $3.18.
With me so far?
Well, slight problem. The author of this piece did a little digging and found that Sam Altman went on a podcast just recently to say that the company was seeking such loan guarantees, and documents still on OpenAI's own web site confirm this.
There's a reason I call him Sam Altman-Fried.
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Finally Friday Cafe
—Ace
Traces of Texas @TracesofTexasThe Texas Quote of the Day is just awesome:
"The Rio Grande is an ancient family of rivers that join as they cross the continent, and each member has its own distinct history and appearance. Spanish sailors who first saw the river named it Rio de las Palmas for the groves of native palm trees that once filled its lower delta. Then the Rio Pecos was discovered on the dry Texas plains, wandering along the edge of the Despoblado. Later, conquistadores charted what they called the Rio Brave del Norte as it flowed from Colorado through the long valley of New Mexico. Finally, traders crossing Chihuahua found the river that they named the Rio Conchos, "river of shells," for the fossils in its bed. When, during the last one hundred years, people began to realize that it was all one great system, the name was enlarged to Rio Grande, great river of destiny."
---- Jim Bones, "Rio Grande: Mountains to the Sea," 1985. Y'all should really read this book and every book by Jim Bones that you can find. His texts mix a geologist's knowledge with the soul of a poet. And his book "Texas West of the Pecos" is really the seed that sprouted and eventually resulted in this page and Traces of Texas. The photographs are stunning, and I realized when I first read it in 1982 that there was a whole visual world out there in West Texas that was so unlike what I grew up in in Central Texas. And it was right after I read it that I went out to the Guadalupes for the first time and hiked into The Bowl and that experience percolated and eventually resulted in Traces.
Huh, I think I bought "Texas West of the Pecos" but never read it.
Cat rolls around like a real goof.
He understands the principle but the timing is a bitch.
The prized Pompadour Cow.
A 3-D model of an Escher work.
I got you guys something. Hope you like it.
Flashback: One year ago (well one year and two days) Donald and Melania Trump cast their votes in the 2024 election.
Steve Inman:
Cops arrest fugitive with an assist from the pavement.
He takes on all comers, but after he knocks out the first two, the other two say "Nah man we cool."
Content warning: Supposedly a thief has just robbed a car, and escapes on foot, but then the driver races around the block to deliver V6 Justice. To be honest, I don't know if the narrative here -- that this guy got what was coming to him -- is accurate.
I've linked this before: elevator r*pist hits the button to go to the Lobby of Justice.
Cat UNLOADS on fox.
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The Week in Woke
—Ace
The only thing better than Experts are Diversity Experts.
'Latinx' leader who served as Oregon policy advisor was illegal immigrant convicted of sex crimes
BTW, this is an American outlet, the Washington Examiner. Are we now adopting the British punctuation standard of using single quotation marks -- ' ' -- for quotes, instead of the double quotation marks -- " " -- America has used for a long time?
Just let me know. I don't care either way, I just want to know what we're doing here.
An illegal immigrant convicted of sex crimes in Oregon, a sanctuary state for unlawful immigration, held various advisory positions on state policymaking committees as a so-called "Latinx" community leader.
Now we're back to the double quotes. What is even going on.
Juan Pablo Villalobos Garcia, a criminally convicted Venezuelan national who had overstayed his visa, according to U.S. immigration authorities, served in several committee roles advising the state of Oregon on policy areas such as behavioral health, "health equity," and healthcare for all, regardless of immigration status.Before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security nabbed Garcia, a Portland-area activist and "educator," he was on Oregon's Community Engagement and Communications Committee to the Universal Health Plan Governance Board, which is tasked with creating a comprehensive plan for financing and administering a single-payer healthcare system that covers all Oregonians, no matter their immigration status.
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On the Oregon government website, the board's community engagement committee describes Garcia as the executive director of LatinX Recovery Center, who is "currently in recovery from substance abuse with a criminal justice history."
...Garcia, whose record reportedly includes sexual abuse and bestiality, was also an active member of the Behavioral Health Crisis System Advisory Committee, which advises the Oregon Health Authority, the state's health department, on overseeing the statewide crisis response system.
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Garcia's membership bio says he uses "they/them" pronouns and represents "indigenous populations in South America from a culturally humble level, as well as Spanish-speaking BIPOC communities in Central America."
Outstanding. Give yourselves all a big raise.
The "British Man" who stabbed 10 people on a train slashed a man's face to ribbons months before and the police said "ah you rascal, get out of here you scamp."
Police are to reopen a case in which a taxi passenger's face was slashed by a knife-wielding stranger - after witnesses said they were convinced the attacker was the same man held for the Huntingdon train rampage.Ricky Butcher needed 15 stitches to a slash wound to his face after being attacked at random in September by a man he now believes could have been accused train attacker Anthony Williams.
If confirmed, this would increase growing speculation that last weekend's train rampage might have been prevented.
The attack happened just over a month before the train attack on Saturday night in which ten people were stabbed, some critically.
Mr Butcher was set upon seemingly at random as he waited for a minicab home after a night out in Peterborough on September 27.
But to Mr Butcher's astonishment it was just two days after the terrifying attack that he received an SMS from Cambridgeshire Police - the same force now holding Williams - saying they were closing the case as there was insufficient evidence to make an arrest likely.
They were too busy arresting people for mean but accurate tweets about migrant rape to investigate this run-of-the-mill Diversity Knife Attack.
JaimeJessop @Janine511484078I'm losing count of the number of serious knife incidents Williams was involved in prior to Huntingdon, where police failed to act on each occasion. Taken together, involving the same suspect, who police must have been aware of, this is VERY SUSPICIOUS. They ignored EVERY warning
Ollyp3 @ollyp3I've lost count. Armed with a knife in a barber shop twice. In a town once (at least), stabbed on the DLR. Stabbed on this reported occasion. So many chances to avoid what happened. Practically rubbing his knife with intent to use it under police noses! Zero arrest. Bonkers
Alert the police. I've found two terrorists, commenting on the news.
The Best and the Brightest continue to impress:
Princeton University is launching a new anthropology course on "Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide" in Gaza, a class whose description puts the Israel-Hamas war on par with the Holocaust. The for-credit, graded course is being taught by a "noted Palestinian feminist" who has made provably false claims that Hamas did not kill babies or rape women on Oct. 7, and also called for an end to the Jewish state."Drawing on decolonial, Indigenous, and feminist thought, we examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life, sexual and familial structures, and community survival," the course description reads. "Students will engage reproductive justice frameworks, survivor testimony, and Palestinian feminist critiques of colonial violence, while situating Gaza within comparative histories of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide against Black and Indigenous populations."
She must be fun:
al @ceaseiumsex with a man under the hetero-patriarchy will always be disgusting and humiliating for a woman. we're socially programmed to romanticize sex, to worship the phallus, but none of that romance stands to any meaning when men, your husbands and boyfriends, see you as a sex object
Ketanji Brown-Jackson, the low-IQ underprepared Mean Girl of the Supreme Court.
To negotiate in good faith or go scorched earth?That appears to be the key question plaguing the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal justices as they strategize on how best to lose in key cases that come before the bench, according to a new report.
Published Friday by New York Times lacky Jodi Kantor, the extensive exposé features claims from anonymous confidants and associates of the justices about an alleged ongoing dispute among the court's Democrat appointees. This friction, according to these unnamed individuals, centers on the justices' differing views on how to effectively navigate the court's current makeup and dominating originalist jurisprudence.
In one camp are Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, both of whom have sought to establish cordial relationships with their Republican-appointed colleagues. The article specifically homes in on Kagan, and how she has strategically sought to find areas of compromise with her conservative colleagues -- namely, Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett -- to try and narrow the scope of a ruling (or, on rare occasions, produce a left-wing "victory") in any given case.
In the other camp is the Supreme Court's newest justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson. According to the sources who spoke with the Times, it is Jackson's public remarks and penchant for using antagonistic language in her dissents that are purportedly irking Kagan.
"Admirers of Justice Kagan say she is prudent to show restraint, displaying her frustration only in flashes. Justice Jackson's outspokenness could risk those votes, or further erode faith in a court that may yet stand up to Mr. Trump, they say," the report reads.
Since joining the high court, Jackson has regularly employed aggressive (and quite frankly, embarrassing) rhetoric to trash her conservative-leaning colleagues. In one particular case involving the Trump administration before the court's emergency docket earlier this year, for example, the Biden appointee authored a lone dissenting opinion all but accusing the Republican appointees of abandoning all proper jurisprudence in order to bend over backward for the government.
"This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist," Jackson wrote. "Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins."
The hostile opinion seemingly demonstrates the failures of Sotomayor and Kagan to avoid causing any unneeded friction between the conservative and liberal factions. According to the Times, the two Obama appointees attempted to "advise and coordinate with Justice Jackson" on the tone of her opinions at the outset of her SCOTUS career, in an apparent effort to help sustain their bid to court Barrett, "whose vote they desperately needed."
Although Jackson "sometimes deferred, softening or withdrawing opinions," the Times reported, "she also felt compelled to express frank disagreement even if it caused friction."
...What's become glaringly apparent, as further indicated by the Times' story, is that Jackson has completely forgone (assuming she considered it at all) the Kagan approach of building bridges instead of burning them. Rather than forge professional, working relationships and write to convince her colleagues to come around to her side of the argument, she's opted to pen left-wing "girl boss" fiction for her legacy media fanbase.
That Thing That Never Happens somehow -- get this -- happened again.
Reelected Kansas Mayor Faces Charges Of Voting As Noncitizen
When registering to vote, the only proof of citizenship is checkmark on a postcard, indicating yes or no, "Are you a U.S. citizen?"
The day after Coldwater, Kansas, Mayor Joe Ceballos was reelected to a second four-year term this week, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed election fraud charges against him. Ceballos, 54, is not a U.S. citizen, but he is not in the country illegally; "he is a legal permanent resident of the United States and a citizen of Mexico," Kobach said.
"In Kansas, it is against the law to vote if you are not a U.S. citizen. We allege that Mr. Ceballos did it multiple times," Kobach said in a statement.
Ceballos faces three counts of voting without being qualified and three counts of election perjury. The charges are "nonperson felonies" that could cost Ceballos more than five years in prison. He is alleged to have voted at least in the 2022 and 2023 general elections and the 2024 primary election, although he has apparently been registered to vote since 1990.
He was not charged for holding office, although it is a problem.
"Kansas law at KSA 15-209 requires a city officer to be a qualified elector. And being a qualified elector requires that person to be a United States citizen," Kobach said during a press conference. "It is not a criminal offense to be in violation of that law, but it is worth noting."
I know what you're thinking, Racists, and you're wrong.
Actually I don't know what your Racist minds are thinking, but I'm sure, whatever it is, it's wrong.
The Sierra Club has destroyed itself, claims the Daily Mail. It abandoned its foundational mission of agitating about the environment in favor of DEI, DEI, DEI.
Longtime members of the iconic Sierra Club warn the environmental group is imploding after woke infighting destroyed its focus on nature, driving away members and donors.The once-powerful group, founded in 1892, had long been a giant of American environmentalism, making its name through causes including establishing Earth Day.
But in the last six years the club has lost 60 percent of its membership and is reportedly facing a $40 million projected budget deficit despite several rounds of staff layoffs.
Insiders said issues began during Donald Trump's first term in office a decade ago as the as the group positioned itself in opposition to his rollbacks on environmental laws.
The position attracted a flurry of new members and saw the organization flush with $2 million in donations in just two weeks.
However problems reportedly arose as leaders looked to capitalize on its influence by expanding the club into an umbrella activist group, crusading on progressive issues ranging from racial justice, gay rights and immigration.
Insiders told the New York Times that they were issued an 'equity language guide' and found themselves being scolded for not prioritizing equity and diversity.
'One of the staff said, "That's fine, Delia. But what do wolves have to do with equity, justice and inclusion?"' she recalled.
Earlier this year the Sierra Club fired its first black executive director, Ben Jealous, the former president of the NAACP, after the group hired him in 2022 to reverse its declining membership and donations.
According to the Times, his tenure was marked by 'accusations of sexual harassment, bullying, and overspending', and insiders said the organization spread itself too thin across an array of woke causes.
Jealous told Politico after he was fired that he felt he was subjected to discrimination and a 'campaign' against him, and before he was ousted he said he 'raised concerns about racial discrimination and retaliation I saw in the Sierra Club.'
The censors went quickly to work at Sierra Club, banning words:
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Tesla Stockholders Okay a Big Pay Package for Elon Musk -- One Trillion (Yes that's a "Tr") Dollars
—Ace
The deal was announced by Dr. Evil.
One trilly.
As a Bonus.
Must be nice.
Must. Be. Nice.
It's not a giveaway, though. To collect that big of a bonus, Musk would have to take the value of his company from its current valuation of around $1.4 trilly to $8.5 trilly.
But I wouldn't bet against him.
Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal🇺🇸 TESLA'S $1 TRILLION GAMBLE: ELON'S FINAL FORM
Tesla shareholders vote today on a $1 trillion pay package - a number so big it makes Bezos look middle-class.
The deal would crown Elon the world's first trillionaire if he can grow Tesla to $8.5 trillion by 2035. That's Meta + Microsoft + Google money - combined.
But it's not just about stock price to cash in, Elon has to deliver:
20 million cars,
10 million self-driving subs,
1 million humanoid robots, and a fleet of robo-taxis that actually work.It's the most ambitious (and least humble) to-do list in corporate history - part science fiction, part cult of personality.
Big investors like Norway's sovereign wealth fund are voting no, warning about "key person risk" - which is code for if Elon implodes, so does everything.
But the board's playing chicken with destiny, hinting Elon might walk if he doesn't get the bag.
Source: The Guardian
What would you do with one trilly dollars?
Me, I know what I'd do: I'd get myself a PS5 Pro.
With four (4) controllers. So I could play a friend and have a couple of controllers charging in case we play for a long time.
Unrelated: Megyn Kelly has defended Candace Owens, and claimed that she is "brilliant."
Now Ben Shapiro asks Megyn Kelly why she says nothing about Candace Owens alleging that members of TPUSA and Babylon Bee publisher Seth Tillman were in a conspiracy to kill Charlie Kirk, and that the transgender-loving gay furry who confessed to the murder, Tyler Robinson, is innocent, or just a patsy.
Shapiro also says that Owens is implicating Erika Kirk.
Megyn Kelly says it's "none of my business."
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Four Woke Conde Nast Staffers Fired For Attempting to Bully the Boss
—Ace
The loudest of the bunch is, get this, a woke entitled hyperpolitical transgender.
From Brad Slager at RedState, Conde Nast has been laying off some workers and folding some useless departments into others.
For example -- and this seems to have set these lisping imbeciles off -- "Teen Vogue" fired its "politics" staff. Or at least they were removed from Teen Vogue and "folded into" other Conde Nast departments.
This displeased the communists "working" for the media conglomerate, who believe they have an ownership stake in the billion-dollar corporation because they collect checks from it for sitting at their desks posting on Reddit political threads all fucking day long.
They sashayed down to the head of HR's office and demanded he "answer questions." When the head of HR told them, politely, to go back to work, they hissed "We work here," I guess meaning "We work right outside your office and our job is to harass you until you give us what we demand."
For reasons possibly related to making a case for their defense, a video of this confrontation in the Condé Nast offices has emerged, and it displays all of the dysfunction we have heard about over the years. We see these staffers behaving like insufferable, entitled scolds who disregard the directives from their boss, behaving like they are owed some sort of audience. It is bewildering.What is most surprising is that Duncan did not coddle these cranks, something that has been seen far too often in these media maelstroms. He directed them properly to get back to work, and after a time, he took the appropriate steps and let go of these demanding brats.
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Under Investigation for Bribery From Qatar
—Ace
Ah, Qatar. The country that has bribed a quarter of our politicians, half of our comedians, and three-quarters of our social media influencers.
But at least they're not Jews!
Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser is reportedly the target of a federal corruption investigation over a trip she took with members of staff that was paid for by Qatar.
People familiar with the matter told the New York Times that the inquiry is based on potential bribery or campaign finance law violations. The investigation has reportedly been underway for months, and is being handled by the US Attorney's Office in Washington.
Bowser's office said in a written statement, "This was a business trip. DC representatives regularly travel to promote Washington as a destination for investment and growth." The office said that those efforts have brought business to the city. "All proper paperwork for this standard donation is on file."
I know this might be shocking, but Bowser's "paperwork" lied about who paid for the junket. First she claimed a mayor's group paid, then, when that was proven false, she claimed the trip was paid for by the US Chamber of Commerce.
In fact, the bulk of the trip was paid for by Qatar. And the expenses were significant.
It was revealed that the mayors' group only paid a portion of the cost. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust filed an ethics complaint, which stated that Qatari officials in March sent a letter to the mayor's office showing that the country had paid over $61,000 for Bowser and her staff to come to Doha just before the UN conference.
Must have just been an accounting error.
That's not enough for a post.
This will top it off nicely: Grand jury issues subpoenas in John Brennan obstruction/perjury case.
Justice Department officials in Miami and Washington, D.C., are actively preparing to issue several grand jury subpoenas relating to an investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, Fox News has learned.
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Second Circuit Court of Repeals Rebukes and Reverses Lowly District Court Judge, Instructing the Judge to Consider Trump's Motion to Remove the Alvin Bragg "34 Felonies" Case to Federal Court
—Ace
Yes, the rigged, illegal "conviction" that the left never stops gassing us about.
Trump had moved to remove the entire case to federal court. This motion was denied. The Supreme Court's subsequent opinion on presidential immunity suggested that Trump's original motion had more merit than it was credited for, so Trump refiled the motion, asking again to move the entire case out of Alvin Bragg's Soros-Sponsored Kangaroo Court to a federal court.
The lowly district court judge -- once again assigned completely randomly, I'm certain -- again blew off Trump's argument.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the judge to reconsider and this time actually consider Trump's argument instead of automatically rejecting it like a corrupt hack.
Okay, they didn't say that. I see that in the Penumbras and Emanations, however.
I think that Trump now has a good basis to insist that only a federal court can hear this case, given the federal questions involved, so the state case should be removed to federal court.
We cannot be confident that in doing so [dismissing Trump's renewed motion as untimely (late)], the District Court adequately considered issues relevant to the good cause inquiry so as to enable meaningful appellate review.Those issues include but are not limited to the impact of Trump v. United States on the removability of the underlying state prosecution. For example, the District Court did not consider whether certain evidence admitted during the state court trial relates to immunized official acts or, if so, whether evidentiary immunity transformed the State's case into one that relates to acts under color of the Presidency. Nor did the District Court consider whether any notice of removal of a criminal prosecution under sec. 1455(b)(1) must be filed before trial even if new grounds for removal arise during or after trial. We therefore VACATE the District Court's order denying Trump's motion for leave to file a second notice of removal and REMAND for reconsideration of the motion consistent with this opinion.
DO YOUR FUCKING JOB THIS TIME, FAGGOT.
Whoa, that last sentence seems extremely injudicious. I mean, just waaayyy over-of-line. Why not try constructive criticism? Use words that help, not words that hurt.
What does it mean if the case is removed to a federal court?
It could mean that the conviction just vanishes. It could mean the conviction never happened.
And then they can try this whole bullshit case again, and see how they do with a jury that isn't packed with Trump-deranged, Zohran-Mamdani-voting, George-Soros-selected jurors.
In related news, Republican Senators have written a letter to Chief Justice Cuck Roberts demanding that he actually enforce the canons of judicial ethics on his rogue partisan judges.
Specifically, they're complaining that judges violated the rules about respecting higher courts by anonymously complaining to New York Times "journalists" that the Supreme Court is a deranged authoritarian catspaw of Trump.
In interviews, federal judges called the Supreme Court's emergency orders "mystical," "overly blunt," "incredibly demoralizing and troubling" and "a slap in the face to the district courts." One judge compared their district's current relationship with the Supreme Court to "a war zone." Another said the courts were in the midst of a "judicial crisis." The Times explained that "the judges responded to the questionnaire and spoke in interviews on the condition of anonymity so they could share their views candidly, as lower court judges are governed by a complex set of rules that include limitations on their public statements." The Times went on to characterize these responses and interviews as "overwhelmingly critical of the Supreme Court" and reflective of "extraordinary tensions within the judiciary."
Why do leftwing judges hate the emergency docket? (A docket of cases granted speedy review?)
Well, because it stops their unhinged partisan decisions from standing as the law of the land for more than a year until they're overturned.
RedState's streiff:
Without the SCOTUS emergency docket, lower court decisions could remain in effect for years before getting to the Supreme Court.For instance, it took the Supreme Court 15 months to hear the "Muslim Travel Ban" case during Trump's first term; see The Trump Travel Ban Probably Survived the Supreme Court -- RedState. It took them an additional two months to finally announce the decision. SCOTUS ruled in Trump's favor, but a frivolous lawsuit had delayed his policy by nearly a year and a half.
Correction: I initially asserted, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that the 2nd Circuit (a Northeastern circuit including NY and Connecticut and Vermont) was "another left-leaning court."
Elric the Blade says that my information is out of date:
Ace, the second circuit is about 50-50 now, with maybe one extra Dumocrap appointment. Trump added 5 or 6 judges to the 2d Circuit in his first term. It was then fairly conservative, but then Biden added a bunch DEI retards. So now it's close to 50-50. Of course depends on which panel you get. You could get three raving Biden lunatics.It's the district courts in the 2d circuit that are dominated by leftist retards.
Thanks for the update. (District courts are federal trial courts, the Circuit Courts of Appeal are just appeal courts where judges review rulings from the trial courts, and of course the Supreme Court is the court of final appeal.)
Surprise! A Virologist Warned the "Intel" Community That Covid-19 Did Not Look Natural and Likely Came From a Lab.
Then Fauci Had a Chat With Him.
And Then He Started Telling the Public and Congress It Must Be a Natural Virus.
—Ace
Prominent Virologist Warned Intelligence Community COVID-19 Could Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab. Then He Met With Fauci and Changed His Tune.The researcher, UNC professor Ralph Baric, also privately downplayed the wet market theory but publicly lent it credit
A prominent U.S. virologist who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the COVID-19 pandemic privately informed the U.S. intelligence community in January 2020 that the Chinese lab may be responsible for the outbreak. But in his public remarks to congressional staffers one month later--and after meeting with former White House health adviser Anthony Fauci--the researcher stayed mum about the Wuhan lab and lent credence to the discredited wet market theory.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill virologist Dr. Ralph Baric warned the Office of the Director of National Intelligence during a closed-door presentation with the agency's Biological Sciences Experts Group on or around Jan. 29, 2020, that the Wuhan lab, which was conducting risky gain-of-function experiments on bat viruses similar to the one that causes COVID-19, may have accidentally released the virus into the human population. Baric's presentation, which the Washington Free Beacon obtained from a whistleblower, went beyond mere speculation: Considered one of the world's foremost experts on coronaviruses, Baric experimented with coronaviruses in 2015 with the Wuhan Institute of Virology's top researcher, Shi Zhengli. Later, in early 2024, he testified to House investigators that he had privately warned Shi that her lab lacked sufficient biosafety protections and that he always believed a lab leak origin was possible.
But Baric had nothing to say about the Wuhan lab in his public remarks during the early days of the pandemic as the press cast Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and other proponents of the lab leak theory as unhinged conspiracy theorists.
Huh. You don't say.
Baric's private presentation to the intelligence community in January 2020, which was first disclosed Friday by Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), was almost identical to a public briefing he delivered to the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus the following month on Feb. 26, 2020. For the public presentation, however, Baric removed the slides referencing the possibility that the virus could have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology....
Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard Ebright, one of the most prominent academic proponents of the lab leak theory, said it was no coincidence that Baric omitted his references to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in his public presentation. Ebright said Baric held a "highly unusual one-on-one meeting" with Fauci on Feb. 11, 2020, an appointment reflected in a copy of Fauci's schedule obtained through a Freedom of Information Act Request.
At the time, Fauci was quietly coordinating efforts to cast the lab leak theory as a baseless conspiracy. Fauci and former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins were also warned about the Wuhan lab's potential role in the outbreak during a Feb. 1, 2020, conference call. But instead of heeding those warnings, Collins and Fauci, who led the federal agencies that funded gain-of-function research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, set out to cast discussions of lab origin of COVID-19 as a baseless conspiracy theory.
Collins lamented in an email exchange with Fauci the next day that discussion of a lab origin of COVID-19 "would do great potential harm to science and international harmony."
Trust the experts, peons.
They are above suspicion. Unlike non-experts, they all have sterling characters and possess no human flaws that can be exploited. They are never motivated by money or self-interest.
Did you know that being accredited makes you an actual angel created directly by the hand of God Himself?
It's true, Racists. Read a fucking book once in a while. Ever hear of "the Bible"? It's in there, somewhere.
Sydney Sweeney Is Repeatedly Badgered by a Woke Ugly Karen "Journalist" To Apologize for Being White and Pretty, and Keeps On Not Apologizing
—Ace
Struggle Session rejected.
Do you repent of your race, Sinner?
Usually I start with real news and do a fun silly post later in the day, but the whole internet has been buzzing about this since last night so f*** it, I'm doing it live.
The woke left media is still demanding Sydney Sweeney apologize for her "great genes/jeans" ad. They are still after her to admit it was a Race Crime to make so many neurotic, hysterical, internet-addicted Karens upset by making a dumb pun Brooke Shields made in her jeans ads in 1980.
This gross, manipulative cow interviewing her even demanded she apologize for being "white" and speaking, she claims, of "genetic superiority."
Sweeney -- get this -- refused to apologize.
No matter how many times the angry, unattractive Karen from the gay fashion magazine GQ demanded she apologize for existing, Sweeney pretended she had no idea what the cow meant and gave a light deflection.
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Goodyear Senior Executive Outsourced Jobs to India While Personally Benefitting from the Outsourcing Industry…annnnd She Just Departed Goodyear after Being Exposed
—Buck Throckmorton
Corporate America has a problem. Its C-suites are stocked with ethically compromised individuals who have embraced a hostility to American labor, while wrapping themselves in a veneer of wokeness to cover the depth of their corruption and self-serving behavior.
I periodically like to highlight examples of this America-last, corporate corruption. Here is another example:
This scandal has already taken down one Goodyear executive, Mamatha Chamarthi. The company’s CEO, Mark Stewart, has not yet resigned, even though he is in the thick of the scandal. He needs to be dismissed by Goodyear’s Board of Directors. (But of course, the Board probably think they work for him, not vice versa.) Here is what happened:
• CEO Mark Stewart hired Mamatha Chamarthi as Goodyear’s “Chief Digital Officer” in 2024. Under Ms. Chamarthi’s direction, Goodyear is aggressively outsourcing jobs to India, with the full blessing of the CEO.
“Tech Mahindra to build 3,000-member GCC for Goodyear” [Outsource Accelerator – 02/10/2025]
Tech Mahindra, one of India’s leading IT services companies, is finalizing plans to establish a global capability center (GCC) for Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co in Hyderabad. The center, expected to employ 3,000 professionals, will focus on managing Goodyear’s research and development (R&D) and IT operations.
It goes without saying that Hyderabad is not in Ohio. It’s in India.
• Ms. Chamarthi is also the co-founder of T200, an organization with a goal of “Empowering Women in Technology.”
• Accenture is a company that specializes in providing outsourcing services and consultation, with a special focus on outsourcing jobs to India. Accenture is a potential contractor for Goodyear’s outsourcing contracts. The CEO of Accenture is Julie Sweet.
• A few weeks ago, T200 held its “Soar 2025” conference at Accenture headquarters in Chicago. Two of the three featured speakers at the T200 conference were Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and Goodyear CEO Mark Stewart.
• At the conclusion of the seminar, T200 put up a post at Linked-In that read, ”Thank you Julie Sweet and Accenture for your generous donation to T200.”
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
—CBD
Still Life with Three Puppies
Paul Gauguin
The main page version is from the museum. The clickable version is from WikiArt. They are different!
The Morning Report — 11/7/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. At long last there is at least a very small ray of light after the shattering darkness of the reality which smacked us upside the head this past Tuesday. Nancy Pelosi who for sure is among the most despicable political figures in modern if not all of American history ever to blight the landscape of our once great Republic and rapidly degenerating society is retiring after 40 years in office! That alone is an indicator of how messed up our government is. The latter due in no small part to her presence and malign influence that has dragged us to the very precipice of destruction. Hyperbole? Take a look around and examine everything we have lived through and continue to suffer from during her tenure as House speaker and Democrat Party prime mover.
Mostly, though, Pelosi helped Trump win his historic second-term comeback in 2024 by backing Joe Biden and his disastrous policies, everything from open borders to appeasing Iran to vaccine mandates and all the terrible choices that led to record inflation. Worse still was her role in the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline and her immediate endorsement of Kamala Harris to take Biden’s place in the 2024 presidential election, which meant no primary for the so-called pro-democracy party.Above all, Pelosi was so polarizing and divisive that throughout her role on the national stage after becoming House Speaker in 2007, she was not only one of the most consistently unpopular politicians in the country, but she also helped the GOP raise money like no one else.
Bye, Nancy. You won’t be missed. Enjoy your ice cream and Scrooge McDuck pile of unearned money.
Most egregious was her role indirectly and in my view directly of the chaos that ensued on 1/6/21 at the Capitol first by her refusing to allow President Trump to call out the troops to secure DC and then in her role as the chief of the Capitol Police, whose ineptitude and or intentional actions allowed the ensuing civil disturbance to escalate to a point where two innocent women, Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland wound up dead at the hands of her officers and other unknown law enforcement agents. This allowed her and her ilk to transmogrify the events into a charge of insurrection against Trump and to brand him and his voters as dangerous, treasonous, racist Nazis, fascists and traitors, etc. etc. All of which has escalated to the point where she and her party and their base now have a license to commit literal murder and terrorist acts because they view themselves as defenders of democracy and us as an existential evil to be eradicated. Three attempts on Trump and one successful take down of Charlie Kirk, plus the weaponization of our Judiciary, intel and LE agencies as instruments of political repression against anyone and everyone who opposes the Democrat Party and its rule.
I assert that the events of 1/6/21 were engineered in part by Pelosi, Obama and a cabal that included Brennan, Clapper, Comey and the cadre of power-mad tyrants who engineered the Russia Collusion hoax, aided and abetted by cops on the take, then prosecutors and judges who collectively became the American Gestapo and Gulag commandants and guards of the J-6 political prisoners.
Of course now, the Democrat Party is openly bust-out proudly Democrat/Soy-cialist/Islamist nearly to the point of being the closest thing to Ba'athist that we have yet encountered — and unless and until there is a radical (ironic that word) change of course in our society, it will only get worse from here.
So why is Pelosi ankling? Does she sense her own physical mortality or is it that she thinks she may be targeted for termination by the Titty-Caca up and comers that she herself had an outsized role in creating in the first place.
And here I thought I was bringing a ray of sunshine, instead of micturating in your cornflakes.
Like Zohran Mamdani, Scott Wiener is the frightening face of a new Democratic Party, in which letting children get transgender surgeries is just the tip of the iceberg. From letting the state take gay kids away from their parents to legalizing pedophilia, Wiener makes even the most radical member of Congress look like a moderate. . .In the Golden State, Wiener has pushed socially seismic policies that allow male sex offenders live in female prisons if they claim to be transgender, to exempt gay sex offenders from the state registry if the minor is at least 14 and within a 10-year age gap, and to make California a “haven” for out-of-state kids to come for sex changes without their parents’ consent.
Just as a reminder that Islam was founded by a megalomaniacal, bloodthirsty savage pedophile. And Islam is a growing factor in the Democrat party. If the Bro-Fo Omars and Rancida Tlaibs weren't a wakeup call then for sure this Mamdani cancer in NYC ought to be.
whether Weiner or someone else wins Pelosi's House seat, one thing is certain, with San Francisco the modern equivalent of Sodom on the Pacific, and now with California slated to get at least 5 more House seats which thanks to Newsom's Prop 50 will likely be all Democrat. The only question is will they be Stalinist or merely Trotskyite? So Pelosi is gone, but the Democrat bench is ugly dark and deep.
There are many conclusions to be drawn from resounding Democrat victories in Tuesday’s elections, but perhaps none is sadder than this: the left suffered little blowback from the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In the aftermath of Kirk’s killing, there was a sense that it could be a momentous event in U.S. history, and a wake-up call for the right and the country as a whole. Not only had extreme anti-conservative rhetoric culminated in the murder of arguably the GOP’s brightest young star, but platforms like Bluesky and Reddit showcased the left immediately reveling in the gruesome shooting of an innocent man. .. Two months after the assassination, on Tuesday, Jay Jones was elected Virginia’s AG despite leaked text messages in which he fantasized about the violent death of a Republican lawmaker and that lawmaker’s “little fascist“ children. Jones’ candidacy was a morbid litmus test as to whether Kirk’s death created any significant ramifications for Democrats, with the results being a very clear “no.” . . . The lack of fallout over Kirk’s assassination has proved once again that the left is vastly more adept at following Rahm Emmanuel’s famous advice never to let tragedies go to waste. Kirk’s death, politically speaking, was a blip compared to George Floyd’s, for instance. The date Kirk was slain is not common knowledge, unlike that of the Capitol riots, which have been forever branded in the public memory, 9-11 style, as “January 6.”. . . The devastating irony is that Kirk would have been the first Republican to realize that the party needed to respond aggressively to his murder and leverage it to force a change in Democratic behavior. He would have recognized the opportunity to continue pushing the issue until Democrats were held accountable for both their rhetoric leading up to the fatal shot and the widespread, disgusting reactions by their base during the aftermath. Instead, in Kirk’s absence, the GOP dropped the ball and allowed the event to exit the news cycle without any major consequences for Democrats. By failing to draw a line even at murder, Republicans have left an open question as to where the boundary is for the left, or whether one even exists.
First of all, and it's no excuse, "the news cycle" is controlled by some of the loudest cheerleaders of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Second forget the GOP, but how are we as a people supposed to respond to not only Kirk's slaughter at the hands of Pelosi and her ilk's minions when even when we peacefully show up to protest what we feel was a stolen election or the continued slaughter of babies in utero we wind up tarred and feathered as Nazis and worse, in prison, the hospital or in Kirk's case an early grave.
If we not only cannot seek redress as guaranteed by our Constitutional first amendment rights, or in what is supposed to be the fairest most impartial judicial system yet seen by humanity, then we as a society are lost and when just the opposite happens, that the state or those who wield its power and its supporters are seen as above the law and the arbiters of what is and what is not legal then we as a society are finished, America is dead. Then all bets are off.
If as I pray with all my might we are not at that point and never get even close to it, then this situation cannot go on and must not go on. And what cannot go on, ultimately will not go on. After that, I can't see what the future holds, and I'm too damned scared to even hazard a guess.
Have a great weekend,
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Daily Tech News 7 November 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Why does so much new technology feel inspired by dystopian sci-fi movies? (New York Times) (archive site)
You mean like Escape From New York?
Because the people who wrote those movies were inspired by people, and people do dumb things.
- It's a cookbook. (CNBC) (archive site)
Microsoft has formed a superintelligence team under AI chief Suleyman 'to serve humanity'.
Hey, I've seen this one. It's a classic!
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - November 6, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Hello and welcome to the Thursday ONT! So glad you're here. Content has been provided. Do you care? Open thread, as always. Step on in!
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Thursday Night Cafe
—Ace
Duntrune Castle, Scotland
Doggo lets it slip that the woman's husband always takes him to the pub.
Himalayan snow leopard.
Boom. My uncle, an Air Force master sergeant (or that sort of level of NCO), told me they called this "an unscheduled sunrise."
Cats. You can't stop 'em. You can't even contain 'em.
Neat. Unless it's AI. In which case it sucks.
Dog resigns himself to bathtime.
Double golden retriever welcome.
Rescue dog goes to his first grooming, and is worried that his new master might leave him.
Oldie but a goodie: Buttermilk the rambunctious baby goat.
Pandas, Nature's Natural Acrobats.
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Republicans -- Get This -- Compromise With Democrats for CR
—Ace
Before that, an update to the J6 pipe bomb story.
The story is on hold.
Steve Baker @SteveBakerUSA
🚨Update on J6 Pipe Bomber Report🚨After an abundance of counsel from trusted parties within and outside the government, we've hit the pause button so those interested parties can have some more time to look at the J6 pipe bomber evidence. There are things they need to do internally.
This is a real story. When it breaks, it's going to be a HUGE story. There are a lot of moving parts, but we need to give them time to do what they need to do, and I know everyone is waiting. Believe me. Tensions are running high. There have been a lot of sleepless nights the last two weeks. But this is a game-changer, and we don't want to do anything to jeopardize that right now.
I was up at 3:30 am preparing the video clips for the release on this morning's Glenn Beck Program. Contrary to what so many X complainers will say, this wasn't a hype stunt for views and clicks. And no, the government didn't silence us. Glenn and I both were pretty amped up to put it all out this morning. And we were both very disappointed when the decision to postpone was made.
The government's investigation into the J6 pipe bombs was going nowhere just two weeks ago. Today I can tell you that has all changed. A bunch of people got pretty spun up yesterday.
Hang tight. It's all coming.
DISAPPOINTED!!!!
Well, this is understandable. They are about to name a citizen as a criminal who has been sought (sort of...) by the feds for almost five years. The story can't just be dashed off like an internet post; it needs a full legal scub-down by defamation lawyers.
Still:
DISAPPOINTED!!!!
On to the story of Republicans caving.
Here's why Republicans are caving: Despite the fact that it is the Democrats keeping the government shut down, the propaganda media has convinced the cow-like public that it's the Republicans who are to blame.
If they do press on, if they do keep the government closed, Democrats will be acting with confidence that comes from a number of polls that show more people blame Republicans for the shutdown than blame the Democrats, who actually caused the impasse. Two polls out just before the election, one from the Washington Post and the other from NBC News, both found that more people blamed Republicans for the shutdown than blamed Democrats.
That seems odd, given the plain facts of the case: Democrats are filibustering the government-opening bill. But it makes more sense after looking at media coverage of the standoff. In a new report, the Media Research Center's NewsBusters studied broadcast newscasts for October and noted that "the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have hammered both congressional Republicans and President Trump with a wall of negative shutdown coverage, while largely shielding Democrats from blame for the now-historic gridlock."
"Coverage across all three networks was conspicuously vague about how the shutdown had even occurred," the MRC report continued. "There were only 12 instances in which any of the three outlets hinted that Senate Democrats had voted repeatedly against a continuing resolution." Just informally reading print coverage of the shutdown, it's interesting to note that many articles discussed the internal Republican debate on ending the filibuster but did not specifically say the reason for the debate is that Senate Democrats are employing the filibuster to block a government funding bill that has majority support.
This must be because the GOP isn't anti-Israel enough. (According to Israel obsessives on the pseudoright.)
We're going to be delivering them a win in exchange for opening the government:
Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio
THUNE told Senate Republicans to plan to stay here this weekend & that he'll tee up the House-passed CR for a vote TOMORROW -- but he said he was unsure if enough Dems would back it.60+ would need to get on the bill and then amend
To the point about GOP skepticism -- Dems likely wouldn't provide the votes to advance the House-passed CR until there's clarity on *what* the final deal actually is.
CR end-date is still not ironed out, for example. And Dems demanding RIF language after R's expressed openness
I believe RIF means "Reduction in Force." Democrats want to force Trump to hire back all the useless leftwing bureaucrats fired by DOGE. Or maybe just fired during the shutdown. (But did we actually fire anyone during the shutdown, or did we just threaten to?)
How many we're agreeing to, I don't know.
Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderioMORE -- Dems came to consensus that they should hold out a bit longer (i.e. block Fri procedural vote) to try to extract more from GOP, such as language on RIFs (which R’s injected into the convo)
Belief is they can get a better deal & shouldn’t fold for what’s currently on table
Early on, some R's privately grumbled about RIFs and blue-state funding freezes because Dems would likely use it as a bargaining chip in a deal to get out of the shutdown.That is in fact what's happening
Byron York @ByronYorkBad precedent: Democrats will be rewarded for shutting down the government. Republicans did not insist on hard line. And biased media coverage helps shield Democrats from the consequences of what they have done
Well, if this just means that Trump will hire back people he fired during the shutdown and undo the funding freezes he imposed during the shutdown -- that's not catastrophic.
Look, let's be serious: Those were always bargaining points, intended to be leverage and ultimately bargained away.
If that's the price of opening the government and paying the troops and air-traffic controllers, shrug.
If that's all it is.
Democrats have also demanded that they be given a vote on spending taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens and extending the supposed "emergency" Obamacare subsidies Biden enacted.
But here's the rub: The deal they want is that that stuff would not require a 60-vote cloture vote to come to a vote, but would proceed directly to a vote where all you need is 51 votes.
Murkowski, Collins, Bill Cassidy and I'm sure a couple of other fake Republicans would then deliver Democrats their victory.
That would be a huge concession.
The Democrats never gave us anything.
The Republicans, of course, make concessions to terrorists.
"We Must Stop Fighting, We Cannot Divide the Right*"
* "Except for Tucker Carlson Who Is Allowed to Continue #Cancelling All Jewish Republicans He Doesn't Like"
—Ace
David Strom has a good piece: How can the Tucker Apologists claim that we mustn't attack Tucker Carlson for his, erm, evolution, while his entire show consists of relentlessly attacking Republicans himself?
Is it just some Republicans -- and anti-Republican, anti-MAGA Nazis -- who are afforded this Identitarian Privilege?
Is it, or should it be true that in order to win, we should follow the principle that there are "no enemies to the right?"On its face, the principle makes sense. After all, elections are won by adding together enough voters and voting blocs to get a plurality of the vote. Unless you have more voters than the other side(s), you lose. So if you see a group of voters who might be persuaded to vote along with you, it makes sense to either appeal to them or, at the very least, not criticize them.
This is the essence of some conservatives' arguments that the critiques of Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts are counterproductive. Some would toss Candace Owens into the mix, but fewer because she now just seems kooky to people.
At least I hope so.
There are a number of problems I see with this seemingly plausible argument, morally, intellectually, and electorally, where the rubber meets the road.
First, let's get this out of the way: Nick Fuentes is not a conservative, nor is he somebody who could (at least reliably) be included in the Republican coalition even if we wanted him to be. He is a racist, authoritarian, antisemitic bottom feeder who says he is on "Team Hitler," admires Josef Stalin, attacks JD Vance for marrying his wife, and who literally campaigned against Donald Trump in the last election.
He's not only a scumbag, but he spends a lot of time trying to kick people OUT OF the Republican coalition because they don't fit his model for what America should look like.
Anybody who says "no enemies on the right has to explain why this is not a declaration of enmity TO the right:
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The Blaze: We've Identified the J6 Pipe Bomber and It's a Government Worker at a Three-Letter Agency
—Ace
Intel Report Daily @TruthNinja316🚨J6 PIPE BOMBER HAS LIKELY BEEN IDENTIFIED🚨
The person responsible for planting the pipe bombs has been ID'd. They are a female. They are from a 3 letter agency. They did work for Capitol Police. I know the name but can't name the person out of respect for the person who worked this story masterfully... @SteveBakerUSA
The "lead suspect" is a woman, and high government official.
Here's the Blaze story from yesterday:
'She's one of us!' Steve Baker stuns Glenn Beck with bombshell revelation about J6 pipe-bomb suspectJoseph MacKinnon
November 05, 2025Beck indicated that the suspect will be named as soon as the relevant agencies have 'battened down the hatches.'
Blaze News investigative reporters Steve Baker and Joseph Hanneman have spent years working to identify the masked individual who placed pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021.
Baker, whom the Biden FBI arrested over his January 6 reporting, revealed to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Wednesday that they have finally locked in on a suspect. What's more, Baker hinted that the suspect's imminent identification will implicate and shame at least one federal agency.
Baker told Beck, "When I pulled this thread, I was so shocked by what I saw, I immediately took it to a source in one of the most important, highest-level investigative federal agencies in the country. I immediately took it to our sources there, and I said, 'You have to see this.'"
"After they looked at it for about two hours, the response that I got back was, 'Holy F,'" continued Baker. "And then the follow-up response was, 'She's one of us!'"
When pressed by Beck about his confidence level in the suspect ID, Baker said, "I will tell you that from gait analysis -- that's the analysis of the hoodied bomber ... compared to the gait analysis of this individual in private life and at work -- that the actual software hit at a 94% accuracy."
"Human analysis from the experts in intelligence is much higher," continued Baker. "They looked at it and went, 'My God, that's it. We got it.'"
In the below interview, Glen Beck says the Blaze will publish the story... tomorrow. And since these were posted yesterday, that means "today." But I don't see an update at the Blaze.
Is this real? I dunno. I have heard rumblings that the bomber has been identified for a few months. I wasn't told who it was, just that a researcher knew who it was and was absolutely confident in her belief. I only mention that as the teensiest, tiniest little scrap of information that suggests that maybe this is real. (It's very weak confirmation, but it's all I have.)
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Jeffrey Epstein's Former Cellmate Alleges: James Comey's Daughter, Federal Prosecutor Maureen Comey, Said That I Could Walk Free If I Falsely Claimed That Epstein Implicated Trump in His Pedo Schemes
—Ace
Allegedly, per this admittedly-convicted criminal, James Comey's nasty, ugly daughter promised that he would skate if he could make any allegation against Trump. She further said, allegedly, that it did not matter if he could provide evidence that the allegation was true. All that mattered was that Trump would be unable to disprove it.
The former cellmate of infamous financier Jeffrey Epstein has claimed that Epstein said New York federal prosecutors had offered him a deal if Epstein agreed to implicate Donald Trump, then serving his first presidential term.
Epstein, who was arrested on child sex-trafficking charges in July of 2019, was transferred to the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan and shared a cell with former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, who at that time was awaiting trial. Tartaglione was eventually convicted on a quadruple-murder charge, while Epstein died in the jail a month after being arrested.
In a pardon application obtained by the New York Post, Tartaglione wrote, "Prosecutors ... told Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Epstein's crimes he would walk free."
"Epstein told me that [lead prosecutor] Maurene Comey said that he didn't have to prove anything, as long as President Trump's people could not disprove it. According to Maurene Comey, the FBI were 'her people, not his [President Trump's]," the filing stated.
Tartaglione added in his petition that Epstein told him "President Trump was not involved in Epstein's crimes."
Now, remember, jailhouse testimony is notoriously unreliable and people will say anything in hopes of currying favor from whoever is in a position to set them free.
Still... worth investigating, I would say.
