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War Powers Act Vote to Limit Iran Action Fails, Meaning This Is Now a Congressionally Approved War
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Okay okay, that's kinda bullshit. But you will agree, this means that this is not a Congressionally disapproved war.
And because double negatives are effectively positives -- yes, Congress has voted affirmatively to not stop the war.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
The Senate rejected the war powers resolution to force the U.S. to cease operations in Iran in the middle of active combat. Only one Democrat, Sen. Fetterman, voted against the resolution despite some of these same senators supporting Obama in unilateral attacks on Libya...
...In the end, the Kaine resolution succeeded in having the opposite effect of voting against limiting the prosecution of the war. The Senate has now been consulted and voted against limits...
The Senate rejected the war powers resolution to force the U.S. to cease operations in Iran in the middle of active combat. Only one Democrat, Sen. Fetterman, voted against the resolution despite some of these same senators supporting Obama in unilateral attacks on Libya...
...In the end, the Kaine resolution succeeded in having the opposite effect of voting against limiting the prosecution of the war. The Senate has now been consulted and voted against limits...
...Notably, the resolution was more feckless given the exception for "imminent threats." With full combat operations on both sides, all threats are now imminent and all attacks responsive.
...What is interesting is that, ever after the Senate was notified, consulted, and voted, Democrats are still calling the war "illegal." The Senate just voted against limiting or blocking the use of force.
The Mullahs made semi-secret overtures through the CIA begging for an end to the war. Trump rejected these overtures.
President Donald Trump told NBC News that would be a "waste of time," adding on social media today that there would be no deal without Iran's "unconditional surrender."
In more Iran news: The leading candidate for Ayatollah is a limpdick.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the favorite to become the new Supreme Leader of Iran, was repeatedly treated for impotency at hospitals in the UK, according to a secret US intelligence document.
On Tuesday, Mojtaba, 56, was reportedly preparing to be named successor to his father Ali Khamenei, who was killed along with 48 other senior regime officials in America and Israel's ongoing Operation Epic Fury.
According to a classified briefing sent by the State Department to the US Embassy in London in 2008, and later released by WikiLeaks, Mojtaba was placed under pressure by his family to produce heirs.
It required four visits, including a final stay lasting two months, and he eventually had a son who was named 'Ali' after the baby's grandfather, the then Supreme Leader.
According to US intelligence, Mojtaba married relatively late in life in 2004. That was 'reportedly due to an impotency problem treated and eventually resolved during three extended visits to the UK.'
'Mojtaba was expected by his family to produce children quickly, but needed a fourth visit to the UK for medical treatment,' it said.
The Conservative Party of Iran just declared itself and announced its principles. It's a pro-monarchy, secular conservative party. "Conservative" is not code here for "mullahs." It sounds like it wants to be what the UK Conservative Party should be, but is not.
🚨 BOMBSHELL: The Islamic Regime in Iran PAID a 47-year-old Pakistani national to assassinate President Trump in 2024. pic.twitter.com/lezwfTtVBq
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) March 6, 2026
🚨 JUST IN: These Iranians in London are being praised for going to the US Embassy to honor the fallen American troops who lost their lives to the Iran conflict
Activist Calla Walsh Praises Iran's Missiles at Exhibition, Drawing Backlash Over Warren Ties
2 hours ago
Walsh, a Cambridge native who volunteered for Warren's 2020 presidential bid and other Democrats, spoke at an Iranian aerospace exhibition in a clip first shared by state media in February 2026. She highlighted Iran's indigenous missile program supplying an 'axis of resistance,' prompting rebukes from figures like James Woods, who tied it to her Warren history. Walsh later shifted to militant activism, co-founding a group targeting Israeli firm Elbit Systems, leading to arrests and jail time in 2023; critics now decry her praise for IRGC weapons while she continues posting pro-Iran content online.
These weapons are good weapons because the drone technology is "indigenous." I mean, except for the part it's all stolen from the West and/or supplied by Russia.
No seriously she praises weapons for being "indigenous" people's weapons.
She is a traitor. The group she formed, "Unity of Fields," is explicitly in favor of terrorism against the west.
Kian Tajbakhsh appeared on CNN last night to discuss the Iranian operation. It wasn't confrontational like Scott Jennings, Kevin O'Leary, or Ben Ferguson; he simply presented facts. He should know, as a former political prisoner. We discussed how liberals are trying to frame Operation Epic Fury as a new endless war, but it's not new: Iran has considered itself at war with the United States since the Iranian Revolution. Tajbakhsh was present when officials stated this--we've been at war with the Islamic Republic since 1979.
What he later said about the failed Obama-led Iran Nuclear Deal is what caused CNN to cut to commercial, and you can see why. Tajbakhsh plainly stated how flawed the Obama administration's logic was with this negotiation, and how giving this regime, the largest state sponsor of terrorism, billions might have led to the October 7 attacks. The fingerprints are all over it--the "straight line" as he said before, host Abby Phillip pulled the plug...
This is what Khamenei did when he was president of Iran: he sent ten year old boys to clear minefields. Each boy was given a plastic key. They were told that when they get blown up, the plastic key would open the kingdom of heaven for them.
This is the man the AWFULs cry for and call "selfless, egoless."
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
One of the most haunting stories from the Iran--Iraq War is that the Iranian regime mass produced little plastic keys that were hung around the necks of young children who were then sent out to clear minefields, after being told that if they died the key would open the gates of heaven for them.
The regime later tried to deny the story about the keys, but there is no dispute about the underlying reality tens of thousands of elementary school children were systematically indoctrinated in martyrdom and sent to clear minefields.
A couple of days ago I posted video of what was supposed to be a memorial service outside a mosque in Manchester, England. They got mogged by Iranians celebrating his death.
Well, the mosque tried to stage another tearful memorial, and they mogged it again.
Check out the music. It samples Trump saying "Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, dead, dead, dead."
🚨 BREAKING.
Second night in a row. Islamists tried to set a vigil up for the Ayatollah in Manchester again.
AGAIN Iranians turned up and showed them what the death of the Islamic Regime leader actually meant to them.
Candace Owens to Military-Aged Men: Trump Has Betrayed You, Do Not Join or Remain in the Military, Abandon Your Posts and Take Dishonorable Discharges
—Disinformation Expert Ace
She wants people in the military to desert.
This isn't the first time. She previously told service members to abandon the military and take a dishonorable discharge if they had to. Anything to protect her Terrorist Friends.
Oh, and of course, she says that Israel killed Charlie Kirk because he secretly -- source: "Trust Me Bro" -- was going to denounce Israel as the biggest threat to the US.
Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
Charlie Kirk was the first casualty of the War in Iran.
Never forget what they did to him.
She also, by the way, is doing a seven part series called "Bride of Charlie."
This series "exposes" Erika Kirk as...
1) a murderess who killed her husband
2) a secret lesbian (source: Trust Me Bro)
3) a groomer pedophile and child sex trafficker
On that last point, apparently Erika has fund-raised for an organization that rescues sex-trafficked children. It did not take long for Cavernous Nostrils to begin claiming that Erika Kirk was f***ing the sex-trafficked girls.
She's also "exposing" members of Erika Kirk's family, like her mother.
I know, I know: "Why are you talking about Cavernous Nostrils, the woman with the world's #2 podcast? If you just ignore the Nazi scum they'll all go away like the already didn't when we ignored them for two fucking years."
And so when you tell me to lay off Cavernous Nostrils, please let me know if you also think I should amplify her unending attacks on Charlie Kirk's grieving widow. I mean, I wouldn't want to be accused of "in-fighting" with "other conservatives." If these are all Important Conservative Discussions, maybe I should start linking them and get some of the clicks, too.
'I think that Candace can be opposed,' Boreing continues, 'I think that she must be opposed, [but] I don't think that she can be defeated.'
...
The show Candace was launched at the Daily Wire on March 19, 2021, despite Boreing harboring reservations about her. After all, she began her media career on the left-side of the political spectrum, critically writing in 2015 about the Tea Party and then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
She began her "political career" by accusing her classmates of leaving racist voicemails on her answering machine. She never provided evidence for this, but she did sue everyone. She then parlayed that Race Hoax into a media career.
She started on the hard "woke" left. I mean, she always has been on the hard "woke" left. She just found it amusing to con the rubes into thinking she was a "conservative firebrand" for a few years.
Looking back, Boreing says he assumed Owen had undergone a 'political evolution' but now he realizes it was a reversible 'transition.'
'She's really actually just sort of detransitioning,' Boreing joked. 'She's returning to her first identity.'
Beneath it all, he argues, Owens is driven by an all-encompassing desire for fame.
'She used to tell [PragerU CEO] Marissa Strite that her goal was to be the most famous woman in the world,' Boreing claims. 'She said it in a different way to me, but she said essentially the same thing, which is that she wanted to be Oprah.'
In short, Boreing doubts that Owens holds any real views. 'Candace uses ideology in the same way that she uses conspiracy, or in the same way that she uses slander, and that's for clicks.
'She's post-political, she's openly telling people not to vote. She's saying that she's no longer entrapped by this right-wing divide in the country. She's about something else. And what she's about is Candace Owens.'
...
Perhaps, the most revelatory moment for Boreing in his relationship with Owens occurred as they discussed the rise of white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.
Boreing claims he confronted Owens over her refusal to distance herself from Fuentes and his racist, antisemite Groyper movement. Her response shocked him.
'I could not understand the positions she was talking and her unwillingness to
stand up against what were very obviously bad actors starting to emerge in the [right-wing] movement.
'One of the conversations in particular was about Nick Fuentes and the Groypers. She called them the YouTube Boys. And she said: I'll never go against the YouTube boys, are you crazy? I don't go against the YouTube boys.'
'I said, "Candace, what is it that you actually believe?"' Boreing recounts, 'That's when she said the unbelievable line: I believe what the people believe, I'm the voice of the people.
'It's actually one of the most honest things that I think Candace has ever said,' Boreing reflects.
'She views herself as primarily a famous person. She is going to give the people what they want. And she has an unbelievable instinct, as many incredibly talented people do, to [determine] which way the river is flowing at any given time. She knows where the clicks are.'
'Candace would have worn a yarmulke if she thought that that's the way the world was going, if that's how she was going to get the most and easiest clicks.'
[T]he 'final straw' for him, he told the Daily Mail, came when she engaged with X users accusing a rabbi 'drinking the blood of Christians.'
'I'd been uncomfortable with a lot of what she had said in the months leading up to that, but really, if there was a straw, it was the blood libel,' he says. 'A centuries-old trope used by anti-Semites to defame the Jews, from my point of view, that was the point of no return.'
So again, I'm so, so sorry to engage in "in-fighting" against this Important Conservative Voice who is now using every single show to post conspiracy theories about Erika Kirk being a lesbian murderess and child-rapist.
Jeremy Boreing
@JeremyDBoreing
I don't know Erika Kirk.
I do know Candace Owens.
Erika met the moment of her husband's assassination with a grace unimaginable.
Candace met the moment of her so-called friend's assassination as she meets every moment -- focused on herself and her insatiable hunger for fame and aggrandizement.
If you find yourself believing the latter in her smears of the former, please know you are being manipulated by one of the best in the business. But you're still wrong and in the wrong.
May God open your eyes to the evil you are participating in, and may God bless Erika Kirk.
Seth Dillon
@SethDillon
Imagine being Erika for a moment. You've lost your husband while your children are still young -- and not by natural causes, or some tragic accident, but by assassination for defending his values.
And while you're pressing on despite your mourning, one of your husband's so-called friends begins attacking you, instead of the man responsible, to do as much harm to you and Charlie's organization as possible.
And on top of that, as difficult as it is to believe, people who claim to be your friend -- who spoke on Charlie's stage and attended his funeral -- are suddenly nowhere to be found. They sit quietly on the sidelines, keeping a safe distance, hoping none of the arrows will come their way.
Imagine how deeply that betrayal must hurt . . . how much it compounds the pain you're already suffering.
You can't actually imagine it. There's no precedent for it. You'll never experience anything like it in your life.
Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
Everyday, there's some new line being crossed by this lunatic that makes me wonder whether certain people will finally speak up.
They won't, though. Not even this will be enough, and it's probably time to start asking why they are so invested in Owens.
Yeah I'm speaking up. We talk shit on this blog about virtually everybody. Kristi Noem got some shit yesterday and he main crime was being a little attention-whorey and maybe a little too dumb to be running a key agency.
But when Tucker Carlson, Cavernous Nostrils, and Gay Nazi Nick Fuentes come in for some criticism, suddenly it's just "just ignore them" and "why are you going after people on the right?"
They're not on the right. They're not allies. They intend to destroy MAGA (as they're currently destroying TPUSA) as it stands in the way of what they seek, a Nazi political party with popular support.
What will it take until you get that?
Or is this Good Conservative Behavior?
This is from early December -- and she's only gotten worse, and more direct in her accusations of Erika Kirk, since then. John Sexton:
Yesterday I described how Candace Owens is doing her best to destroy Charlie Kirk's legacy and punish his widow, family and friends in the process. All of this is literally based on a dream that Candace had in which Charlie told her he'd been betrayed by everyone.
For nearly three months, Owens has been insinuating (and then directly stating) that Kirk was murdered by a cabal of foreign interests and that his murder was aided and abetted by people he trusted at TPUSA. And for all that time, TPUSA has for the most part sat back and taken the slander without responding. But yesterday, they finally stopped waiting for Owens decency to kick in and announced a change in their approach.
This clip is about 7 minutes long and most of it is devoted to denying all of the allegations Owens has made.
Again, this is from two months ago. This doesn't even include the Lesbian Child Groomer and Trafficker allegations.
All based on the "ghost of Charlie" visiting this psychopathic narcissist in her dreams and telling her that his wife murdered her and that Candace must avenge him.
Even Matt Walsh, a cuck and coward who has been in the Leave Candace Alone camp, finally decided to debunk Candance Owens' many, many conspiracy theories, mostly about Erika Kirk and her family. Erika Kirk, you see, is putting on a fake show of grieving. She's not really grieving. Sometimes this widow actually smiles or laughs, so you know she's not sad about Charlie at all. But sometimes she cries and can barely speak, and that's all Fake Pretend Acting, so again you know she's not sad about Charlie.
And if she's not sad about Charlie -- you know what that means....! Because what wife wouldn't know how to properly grieve her husband, except the murderess responsible for his murder?
It took him 50 minutes to get through the endless lies Owens is pushing to her rabid, unhinged followers about Erika Kirk.
And by the way: One of those monsters is going to try to kill Erika Kirk.
Instead of telling me to Leave Candace Alone, why don't you start invading her comments and telling her to Leave Erika Alone?
Even before Charlie Kirk was murdered, she had her psychopath followers attacking TPUSA, because she's angry that Charlie separated from her crazy Black Nazi ass and thinks he should have appointed her president of TPUSA.
As Candace is now going after Erika directly, I want to publicly mention that I have it on good authority that these attacks on Charlie from before his death were coordinated with Candace.
In fact, you will notice most of Owens’ biggest supporters pretending that this is all… https://t.co/3veCDdy8is
— Richard Gage, AIA, Architect (@RichardGage_911) November 9, 2025
I think what may be going on is that many of you have no idea what Cavernous Nostrils is saying, so you're just not even aware of why people are criticizing her.
The trouble is, when people attempt to share this information with you, you tell us to stop talking about her and just leave this Important "Conservative" Voice alone.
Maybe i just have to start linking the clips of her attacking Erika Kirk and her mother every single day. After you're done yelling at me to Leave Candace Alone, maybe you'll see after the fiftieth post showing her obsessively attacking Erika Kirk and accusing her of murder you'll realize that gee, maybe Candace Owens is not an Important Conservative Voice who deserves our support and protection.
"Prohibited Access:" Kash Patel Now Examining the FBI's Dark Files, the Hidden History of the Deep State
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Via JackStraw, whistleblowers revealed that the FBI keeps two separate books. You know, like Mafia dons keeping separate books for their fake transactions and their real transactions.
One set of files were the official ones, intended for public consumption and used when they were subpoenaed.
The other set of books were the real ones, about what the FBI was really doing. To make sure no one ever saw these, the files were marked "PROHIBITED ACCESS" so that no one could see them, except the cardinals of the American Kremlin.
It's not just that the files were secret. They were also deliberately kept out of the SENTINEL filing system, so that you couldn't even search for them. You would not even turn up a stub saying "This file is top secret." The very existence of the files was hidden from everyone, including the White House and FBI agents themselves.
Only the heads of the Secret Police knew about them, and the heads of the Secret Police would share the existence of the files with their successors orally. There were no written records or admissions about the files.
Those could be discovered and subpoenaed!
EXCLUSIVE: The FBI's Secret Stash Finally Uncovered
For a generation, the FBI has kept a second set of books called 'prohibited access' files. After a long fight, they're finally being examined.
Matt Taibbi
Mar 06, 2026
A Federal Bureau of Investigation task force has begun excavating the separate set of books FBI keeps using an inaccessible "prohibited access" file designation, according to multiple government sources. Though an internal fight over how to handle the files continues, embattled FBI Director Kash Patel has assigned personnel to examine decades of hidden history, Racket News has learned, with some files already turned over to Congress.
"This is it -- the deep state," one of the sources said.
Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, whose work with whistleblowers and pressure across years was key to prying prohibited access files loose, expressed cautious optimism.
"If it weren't for whistleblower disclosures to my office, the very existence of the FBI using 'Prohibited Access' files for some investigations would have remained in the dark," he said. "I've asked Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel to turn over certain Prohibited Access records to Congress. I've received some, but am still waiting on others. I urge the DOJ and FBI to keep digging -- which previous administrations apparently didn't make any effort to do -- so that the facts can come to light. The FBI's secret stash of records is scandalous."
Files given a prohibited access designation are not merely secret. They are "ghosts" which "do not exist," records rigged to return false negatives when searched for in the FBI's SENTINEL system. They're digital descendants of paper records that as far back as Richard Nixon's presidency were kept in locked offices, accessible to just a few officials, typically at the deputy director level and above. Currently, the number of people with the ability to access the files can be counted on one hand.
The implications of the nation's chief federal law enforcement and counter-intelligence organization having kept a separate, non-searchable filing system are mind-boggling.
"It's not like turning over a rock and finding a few bugs," said retired FBI Supervisory Analyst George Hill. "It's like turning over a manhole and finding a whole city."
"You don't run a Constitutional republic on secret files," added legal analyst Margot Cleveland.
A current government source said the prohibited access designation is "literally designed to hide files from Congress and from the FBI itself. It's really frigging bad."
Off-books surveillance and "disruption" of political figures in the Arctic Frost and Trump-Russia investigations comprise part of the find, but the files extend at least as far back as 1999, across Democratic and Republican Party presidencies, involving as many as a thousand distinct case numbers. There are no rules for passing access to the system from one administration to the next. Instead, operation of prohibited access files is described as an oral tradition passed down among senior FBI officials, independent of agents below and political appointees above in Congress and even the White House.
Here's how the files came to light:
A week and a half ago, on February 25th, Patel mentioned prohibited access files in a statement given to Reuters in a story about Joe Biden's FBI obtaining subpoenas of phone records for Patel and current White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023. Patel called it "outrageous" and "deeply alarming" that the previous administration had him and Wiles investigated, "using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight." He told Reuters he'd "recently ended" the FBI's use of the prohibited designation.
At the outset of the second Trump presidency, neither Patel nor then-Deputy Director Dan Bongino knew how to access the files. "Nobody said, 'Okay, this is how the FBI runs. This is what we do. This is how we hide things,'" is how one source put it.
The bureau has supposedly located all of the "prohibited" files, but the scope of the problem remains unknown, in part because in addition to the prohibited files, the bureau has a problem with what one source called "the shit on paper," which might involve field offices as well as its Washington headquarters. Added a former FBI agent: "There are files in offices and at headquarters that reside either in a safe or in a locked drawer somewhere or hidden within Sentinel."
An extraordinary aspect of this tale -- as Racket's Ryan Lovelace will soon report in more detail -- is that the Justice Department Inspector General has known about the existence of the prohibited access designation since at least 2021. He also obtained a 2023 FBI user manual for its SENTINEL GOLD records system, not always positively reviewed by agents ("Yesterday's Technology Tomorrow," is how one former agent jokingly put it), showing "prohibited" files as one of the categories in the system. According to Racket sources, prohibited access files predate both Sentinel Gold and the original Sentinel system, which was introduced in 2012. (More on this soon.)
The files only came to be accessible to senior Trump appointees after a years-long bureaucratic battle that began with whistleblowers in the Justice Department, later was taken up by investigators in Grassley's office, and only reached the offices of Patel and Bongino last year.
Though the prohibited access issue extends to other presidencies and other problems, including potentially the systematic burying of misconduct cases involving senior FBI officials, this issue only began to leak into the public eye because of Russiagate. When congressional investigators began looking at the origins of the Steele Dossier and the behavior of the private intelligence firm Fusion-GPS, they came across apparent conflicting statements involving Nellie Ohr, a former CIA analyst and Fusion employee whose husband Bruce worked for the DOJ*.
Read the whole thing. It's free to read if you just give them an email address.
They're so sad they try to hide Madison Cornbread's identity by calling her by her criminal alias "Cassidy Hutchinson."
Republicans on Capitol Hill are asking the Justice Department to consider bringing criminal charges against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide in President Donald Trump's first administration who became a star congressional witness about the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to two sources familiar with recent developments.
GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk made a criminal referral of Hutchinson to the Justice Department in recent days, the sources said. He accused Hutchinson of lying to Congress in her summer 2022 testimony when she alleged Trump was aware of the potential for violence on January 6, 2021, and forged ahead with his attempts to rile up his supporters.
Loudermilk has long attempted to reframe the public perception of the events at the Capitol, including by scrutinizing the House committee that investigated the Capitol riot and found Trump was "directly responsible" for the riot. Loudermilk's referral was co-signed by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, who chairs the committee under which Loudermilk is running a probe of January 6.
The Justice Department's press office didn't respond to inquiries about the referral. Both current and former lawyers for Hutchinson didn't respond to multiple inquiries this week from CNN. CNN has reached out to Loudermilk for comment.
It's not uncommon for Congress to make criminal referrals regarding witnesses that have come before it previously, especially in heavily charged political situations, and referrals don't necessarily lead to charges. A referral at times could add to a criminal investigation or prompt one. They are often treated by the Justice Department as suggestions.
A referral and possible Justice Department action against Hutchinson could refocus attention on a fraught aspect of the work years ago of the House Select Committee and prosecutors. It also comes a time when the Trump administration has pursued politically charged criminal cases against former government figures whom Trump considers opponents.
LOL. Oh, Trump is pushing criminal charges against the criminals who pushed criminal charges against him for four years. What a monster.
I mean, it's not even a close call that she repeatedly lied to Congress. Look at this easily-disproved lie that she personally, in her own hand, wrote a key note jotted down during J6.
The note is important because it shows that Trump's people were drafting a tweet that anyone in the Capitol not authorized to be there should leave. The J6 kangaroo court rigged the show-trial to prove that Trump really wanted an "insurrection," so they insisted this was not written by a Trump aid recording his thoughts, but by Madison Cornbread.
In the below exhibit, the the note in question. It is clearly from a masculine hand. Writing in all-caps block letters is the biggest giveaway that a man is writing. I personally only barely remember how to form lower-case letters. I never use them, except in my signature.
So, to disprove the clear fact that Trump was giving orders for the "insurrectionists" to disperse, Madison Cornbread perjured herself and said she wrote the note.
Here's Madison Cornbread's actual handwriting. If you squint really closely, you might notice some subtle distinctions between the note in question and Madison Cornbread's actual handwriting:
Does she really think he would have to seize the controls to go to the Capitol? Does she think the Secret Service would literally, legally kidnap the president and take him somewhere when he was screaming he wanted to go somewhere else?
A House panel reviewing the work of the illegally established and since disbanded Select Committee on Jan. 6 released testimony previously concealed by lawmakers for contradicting the committee's star witness.
On Thursday, the Washington Times reported the House Administration's subcommittee on Oversight released the transcripts of a Secret Service driver for President Donald Trump who pushed back on claims Trump tried to violently hijack a presidential vehicle to riot at the Capitol.
"I did not see him reach. He never grabbed the steering wheel," the driver told then-Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney during an interview. "I didn't see him, you know, lunge to try to get into the front seat at all."
The agent's testimony flew directly in opposition to what lawmakers were told by Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who worked for Trump's final first-term chief of staff, Mark Meadows. Hutchinson sensationalized the televised show trials of the Jan. 6 Committee when she claimed an "irate" president assaulted Secret Service agents to try to drive himself to Capitol Hill.
"The president said something to the effect of 'I'm the f'ing president, take me up to the Capitol now,'" Hutchinson publicly testified in the summer of 2022. "The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel," she added, but he was stopped by the head of his security detail.
Ace is saying something to the effect of, "Imprison this nasty-cooched swamp hag."
THE MORNING RANT: Some Other Election News Out of Texas; plus, A Great Summary from Real Clear Investigations of the EV Debacle’s Cost
—Buck Throckmorton
Paxton’s Chances in the Texas Republican Senate Runoff
There has been a lot of talk about the two Senate primaries in Texas earlier this week, in which James Talarico beat Jasmine Crockett in the Democrat primary, while Ken Paxton forced John Cornyn into a runoff in the Republican primary. I’ve heard about all of the horse-trading going on behind the scenes, as President Trump aims to get one of the Republicans to withdraw. If neither withdraws, I am very hopeful that Paxton wins the runoff.
There has also been much hand-wringing among Republicans and euphoria among Democrats because there were more Democrat votes cast than Republican votes in Texas. While I am frustrated that so many Republican voters skipped the primary, voter turnout in March is almost unrelated to turnout in November’s general election.
In the senate primaries this week, there were 2.07 million Republican ballots cast and 2.22 million Democrat ballots cast. By contrast, four years ago in the mid-term Texas gubernatorial election there were 1.95 million Republican primary ballots and just 1.07 million Democrat primary ballots. But in the November 2022 general election, Greg Abbot received 4.4 million votes and “Beto” O’Rourke received 3.5 million votes. Again, primary turnout is not reflective of the general election.
Beyond that, Texas is infested with so many RINOs because there have been so few contested Democrat primaries in recent decades. Therefore, Democrats often crossed over to the Republican primary to elect left wing, false-flag “Republicans” such as John Cornyn.
Here’s the good news – because there were so many Democrats voting in their own primary this year, John Cornyn cannot count on them bailing him out in the Republican runoff. Anyone who voted in the Democrat primary is now ineligible to vote in the Republican runoff.
This also means, a great number of "sideline" Democrats—who could be tapped for engagement in Republican runoffs—are now not available for that little RINO trick.
— Michael Quinn Sullivan ���� (@MQSullivan) March 4, 2026
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Conservatives Sweep Texas State Board of Education Primaries
Elections involving school boards aren’t very sexy, but they are probably more important in the current culture war than the more prominent governor and senate races.
Ryan James Girdusky’s 1776 Project has done an outstanding job pouring resources and training into local school board races and state board of education races. It supported four hard-core conservative candidates in Republican primaries against RINOs and other establishment candidates. All four conservatives won, and if they win their general election races against their Democrat opponents in November, Texas will finally have conservatives in charge of state textbooks and curriculum. Because of Texas’ size and impact, this also affects other states that follow Texas’ lead.
What were these candidates running on? These were the common issues in their campaigns:
• Combatting the woke agenda and leftist indoctrination in schools.
• Defending parental rights in education decisions.
• Promoting conservative values in schools, specifically faith, family, patriotism, liberty, and moral character.
• Supporting high academic standards and expectation.
— 1776 Project PAC | Text 1776 to 76176 (@1776ProjectPac) March 4, 2026
Much gratitude to Mr. Girdusky and the 1776 Project.
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“One Riot, One Ranger” Statue Stands Proud Again
In the great national convulsion following the death of George Floyd in 2020, there was widespread toppling of patriotic statues across the land. One of those toppled statues was the “One Riot, One Ranger” statue at Dallas Love Field airport. The statue was in tribute to the legendary Texas law enforcement agency, The Texas Rangers.
On Monday morning, the club accepted and installed the 12-foot bronze One Riot, One Ranger statue depicting a member of the Texas Rangers law enforcement agency that had previously stood at Dallas Love Field until it was removed during the racially-charged summer of 2020.
Below is a picture of the despicable desecration in 2020. The header picture at the top of this post is the ranger at his new home.
In case you’ve never heard the “one riot, one ranger” story (which is probably apocryphal): In the late 19th century, lawlessness had broken out in a Texas town, so the mayor telegraphed the governor seeking help from the Texas Rangers. When the train arrived, just one Ranger got off the train. The incredulous mayor asked if there was only one Ranger dispatched, to which the Ranger replied that his understanding was that there was only one riot.
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Real Clear Investigations’ Summary of the Costly EV Debacle
James Varney at Real Clear Investigations is a friend of the blog and a heck of a writer. He has written an outstanding piece summarizing the obscene waste of taxpayer money involved in the failed “EV transition.” I’ve extracted some of it, but there is much more, and I encourage you to go read the entire piece.
The future was supposed to have arrived this year in a cluster of counties just east of Atlanta in the form of a state-of-the-art factory that would churn out 400,000 electric vehicles a year. But when JoEllen Artz looks about her lifetime neighborhood, all she sees are holes.
“Those shovel holes they made in the ground? That’s it,” she said of the planned site of a Rivian manufacturing plant. “It’s awful, awful.”
The problem is not a lack of funds. On the promise of thousands of jobs, elected officials in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta have pledged some $8 billion to the project, including a $6.5 billion loan the Biden administration green-lit in its final hours.
Those loans are just two of the huge public bets, or investments, that state capitals and Washington, D.C., have made on EVs. While no one has calculated exactly how many federal and state dollars both Republican and Democratic elected officials have sent to that green sector, experts RealClearInvestigations consulted fixed the total north of $100 billion.
Public spending on green energy projects, including EVs, began in earnest in May 2009 when President Obama, flanked in the Rose Garden by Detroit and United Auto Workers executives, unveiled his National Fuel Efficiency Policy. It was, the crowd insisted, “good for consumers, good for the economy, and good for the country.”
There has been bipartisan support for many EV initiatives, and the sector got a huge boost during the Biden administration when funding linked to a NetZero future spread throughout the federal government. The bill goes well beyond the billions of dollars in tax credits the federal government provided to EV buyers until that program was ended last September, and includes school buses, postal delivery vehicles, charging stations, and the big manufacturing loans.
The Energy Department, for example, has spent more than $30 billion. That chunk comes from the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing division. Prior to 2019, the ATVM, as it is known, had issued around $8 billion in loans to five different companies. Of those, Nissan repaid its $1.4 billion loan, while Tesla repaid its $465 million loan years ahead of schedule. A $5 billion loan to Ford remains active, but taxpayers lost nearly $210 million on loans to Fisker Automotive and Vehicle Production Group, both of which defaulted, according to the department.
Some states have labored to force EVs into the market. More than a dozen of them have followed California’s lead, requiring at least 35% of cars offered for sale there annually be “ZEVs,” or “zero emission vehicles,” with all cars being ZEVs by 2035. This complicated, opaque system has made all cars more expensive, according to economists. Congress voted last year to kill California’s plan, but President Trump has not acted on that, and state officials have vowed to sue if he signs it.
On top of the costs of those market manipulations, which can be difficult to compute, are billions in direct state spending on EVs and EV-related projects. Both Republican and Democratic elected officials supporting these moves have done so on the grounds that it would provide an economic boost and be good for the environment.
Rivian, whose corporate communications did not respond to RCI’s request for comment, hasn’t only benefited from the Biden administration’s last-minute loan. In 2022, the state’s Republican leadership in Atlanta pledged up to another $1.5 billion – one of the largest incentive packages in Georgia history – including tax incentives, abatements, support programs, and more than $175 million for land acquisition and improvements. There has been an estimated $25 million in local incentives provided, too.
Good morning kids. The military operations to degrade Iran's military capabilities and ultimately to take down the regime continue, and evidently it is turning into a global affair. First we have the nation of Sri Lanka:
The fact the ship has been handed over to the Sri Lankan authorities so quickly strongly suggests the captain took the decision to preserve the life of his men by opting out of the conflict. . . Given the facts as known, this is the first time since the Second World War that a warship has been interned by the government of a neutral power. During the Second World War, several damaged U-Boats were able to limp to neutral harbours and turn themselves over to the authorities after being damaged in attacks, preferring to see out the remainder of the war in captivity rather than the certainty of death at sea.
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan declared on Thursday that his country would use “the full might of our ‘Iron Fist'” against the terrorist regime in Iran after drones flying in from Iran struck an airport and near a school building in the Caucasus nation.
You might recall that during the Obama reign of error, Azerbaijan was going to allow Israel to base strike aircraft on its territory, making it much easier for the Israelis to reach Iranian targets with adequate payloads and fuel for the return trip, while attacking from the north, which would provide for the element of surprise. And Obama, being the Jew-hating dog-eating Muslim traitor he is, tipped off the Mullahs to this. Whether Israel alone even with these advantages could have achieved anywhere near a successful knockout blow against the Iranian nuke facilities back then is debatable, but in the event, it's now obviously a moot point.
On a positive note, along with Israel, Azerbaijan for sure does not want to see another Mullahocracy take control and so has a vested interest in real regime change.
Noem’s tenure as head of DHS comes to an end after a heated Senate hearing, in which Noem blamed Trump for approving questionable contracts worth over $200 million for deportation ads, which raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
Say what you will about her personally, but the fact of the matter is DHS, with her as its administrator, was the key agency that finally sealed our border and deported thousands of illegal aliens, representing a key, if not the most important accomplishment for President Trump's administration to date, and fulfilling a campaign promise and the longstanding desire of all real Americans who voted for and support this President.
An administration official reportedly told NBC News that Trump decided to fire Noem due to “a culmination of her many unfortunate leadership failures including the fallout in Minnesota, the ad campaign, the allegations of infidelity, the mismanagement of her staff, and her constant feuding with the heads of other agencies, including CBP and ICE.” The official allegedly said: “Kristi’s drama sadly overshadowed and distracted from the Administration’s extremely popular immigration agenda, which will continue full force.”
Well, unnamed sources, so there you go. But the fact remains that Trump sacked her. And with regards to Minnesota, is she being blamed for the multi-billion dollar Somali/Democrat grifting or ICE rounding up the grifters, which is what they're supposed to do?! The fact that the Democrats and their propagandists in the media are over the moon about Noem's departure leaves me more than a wee bit disappointed.
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Sri Lanka (Ceylon) has assumed control of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ship (IRIS) Bushehr, a fleet supply ship (oiler). Sri Lanka has sent craft to receive the 1970s-era ship within its territorial waters and, per local media, has taken off 208 officers and men, who are to be sent ashore. The ship will now be taken by the Sri Lankans to Trincomalee for internment for the duration of hostilities. Iranian Warship Surrenders to Sri Lankans, First Time Ship Interned By Neutral Nation Since Second World War
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan declared on Thursday that his country would use “the full might of our ‘Iron Fist'” against the terrorist regime in Iran after drones flying in from Iran struck an airport and near a school building in the Caucasus nation. Azerbaijan Vows ‘Iron First’ Against Enemies After Suspected Iran Bombing
No one wants another war, but Biden proved appeasement doesn't work. (It wasn't appeasement so much as it was COLLUSION. Biden, i.e. OBAMA wanted Iran to get nukes and become the dominant power in the region. Even if it meant, and really wanting the destruction of Israel - jjs) Why Trump Took on Iran
Prediction: This war will end with Iran’s mullahs still in control. (At least, the ones that haven’t been killed yet.) Because it has to: We’re hoping the Iranian civilians will rise up and overthrow the government, but they can’t do that until the bombing stops. Which means that immediately after America and Israel conclude their air strikes, Iran will claim victory because it’s still standing. Iran’s Strategy to Defeat America, Shatter the MAGA Movement, and End Trump’s Presidency
I’m confident it’s going to be the same in Iran. Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, where stupid people like me believed you could turn 7th-century goat herders and religious fanatics into Thomas Jefferson, Trump’s stated goals in Iran are clear: Annihilate Iran’s rocket, missile, and ballistic missile capabilities. Destroy their nuclear program. Remove any leader who does not accept this or who continues to fund terrorism outside of Iran. The Trump Doctrine is that you state your objective, achieve your objectives, and then you declare victory and get out. Trump Doctrine of ‘Declare Victory and Leave’ Goes Back to 2007
From Iran's perspective, this is an existential conflict. The revolutionary government in Iran intends to destroy Israel, slaughter Jews worldwide, and, in its leaders' more fevered dreams, conquer the globe. The war it began 47 years ago ultimately is a war of annihilation. What It Means To Achieve Victory in Iran
The current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida. I thank Kristi for her service at “Homeland.” Kristi Noem Out: Trump Picks Sen. Markwayne Mullin as Replacement
The announcement follows two Congressional oversight hearings Tuesday and Wednesday where lawmakers grilled Noem on her job overseeing the Department. Two fatal shootings in Minnesota following the DHS’ Operation Metro Surge and an alleged affair with her top aide have led members of Congress to scrutinize Noem’s leadership. Trump Reveals Sen. Markwayne Mullin Will Replace Fired Kristi Noem At DHS
In Maryland, for instance, federal authorities moved in to shut down three India-based call centers that were making cold calls to U.S. seniors to sell fraudulent gold bars. The scammers reportedly stole upwards of $50 million from more than 600 victims in the U.S. through wire transfer, cryptocurrency, and gold bar schemes, ABC News reported FBI Cracks Down on Indian Migrant ‘Gold Bar’ Scam Targeting Seniors
Lankford is introducing The Stop Unemployment Fraud Act to reform the joint federal-state Unemployment Insurance (UI) program following the hundreds of billions in fraudulent unemployment payments made during the height of the layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill would strengthen the program and ensure only those eligible and in need would be able to benefit from the system. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Whip Emmer Says Blue States Are ‘On Notice’ In Trump’s War On Fraud) EXCLUSIVE: Sen. James Lankford Goes For Jugular Of $100,000,000,000 In Blue State Unemployment Fraud
Our moral betters, our moral superiors, those who sneer at us for our support of someone as “uncouth” as Donald Trump; those who have lectured us for a decade about how they are the virtuous, tolerant, and empathetic ones… These very same people are suddenly okay with supporting and defending a guy who sported a Nazi tattoo for 18 years. Bulwark, Matt Yglesias Embrace Graham ‘Nazi Tattoo’ Platner
When the dust settled, the annualized productivity growth rate for the entire current business cycle — dating from the fourth quarter of 2019 — was revised up from 2.0 percent to 2.2 percent. That matches the long-run average going back to 1947, and far exceeds the 1.5 percent rate of the sluggish 2007-to-2019 cycle that spawned a decade of productivity pessimism. America’s Productivity Boom Is Getting Hard To Ignore
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
A Satanic cultist who killed his parents in a plot to assassinate President Donald Trump was sentenced Thursday to two life sentences without the possibility of parole. Nikita Casap, 18, confessed to the murders in January after authorities found him living with his parents’ corpses in their Wisconsin home, court records show. Law enforcement also found materials detailing his descent into nihilistic ideology, terrorist plots and discussions with unidentified individuals who egged him on — a spiral that ultimately led a Waukesha County court to lock him up permanently. Court Sentences Teen Who Killed Parents In Deranged Trump Assassination Plot
Does it ever seem like certain types of crimes get ignored or played down by legacy media? As humorist David Burge (Iowahawk) famously stated, “journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.” We aim to correct this by bringing you the crime stories the media hate to cover in our new daily feature... American Crime Blotter: 3/5/26
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The House on Wednesday approved the Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act, with 176 Republicans voting in favor — just a week after some GOP House members reportedly drew battle lines over blocking Senate priorities. President Donald Trump has been pushing Congress to pass the SAVE America Act for weeks in a bid to advance the GOP’s election integrity agenda. (RELATED: Senate Republicans Have The Power To Force Democrats To Filibuster Voter ID — So Why Don’t They?) House GOP Seemingly Relents In SAVE Act Standoff With Senate
The DOJ’s failure to act against Biden or his aides marks another setback for Bondi, who has already failed to act hold the likes of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James to account. Pam Bondi Ends Investigation into Biden’s Autopen Usage.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
A May 2025 clip of Carville telling Omar to leave the Democrat Party on his “Politics War Room” podcast resurfaced and went viral on Feb. 25. Host Stephen A. Smith asked the Democrat strategist on his show to explain what prompted him to push Omar to depart from his party. James Carville Slams BRO-FO Omar Over ‘Stupid’ Rhetoric
16 months after Kamala Harris cackled her way into a loss against President Donald Trump, the Democratic Party seems to have realized its candidates need an image makeover to get voters to forget what their team actually believes. The name of the game is acting normal and talking like a moderate. For Democrats, that’s a stretch. Texas Democrat James Talarico’s ‘moderate’ act exposes his party’s new scam
The 36-year-old nominee is described as a “rising star” in Democrat politics and was seen the more moderate and electable choice for the party, given Crockett’s reputation as an outrageous and theatrical Democrat firebrand. But newly uncovered past tweets exposing Talarico’s bizarre woke views make the 44-year-old Crockett seems like an elder stateswoman in comparison. ‘He’s Toast’: Texas Democrat James Talarico’s Old Tweets Come Back to Haunt Him (Beatification to Beto-fication - jjs)
There are no moderates among elected Democrats. (because their policies and beliefs, like Islam, are antithetical to morality, sanity and civilization - jjs) They Can’t Give It Up
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The incident highlights the escalating tensions between Ukraine and Hungary, with Zelensky accused of imposing an “oil blockade” on Hungary and Orban threatening to block tens of billions of dollars in EU aid for Ukraine in return. Zelensky Threatens to Give Orban’s Address to Ukrainian Military.
Short version: Putin is stirring up ethnic crap in western Ukraine to distract from the ethnic crap he’s stirring up in eastern Ukraine, and he’s being aided in his efforts by pro-Moscow forces in Budapest and by ethnic Rusyns overseas. Put into an even broader context, we now have two ostensible NATO allies — Hungary and Turkey — working at cross purposes to Western interests. Putin doesn’t have to blow up NATO to get what he wants; the edges of the alliance are fraying all on their own. NATO is turning into a giant new Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia — it just doesn’t know it yet. The Weirdest Thing Just Happened in Ukraine... Again
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
And yes, while China is a net importer of oil and natural gas — and yugely so — the Communist nation exports refined products including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and marine bunker fuel, largely to Southeast Asian, South Pacific, and African nations. But not as of today. EPIC FURY: Trump's Play to Starve the Dragon?
The "special" job is, of course, taking over Cuba (last week, Trump called it a "friendly takeover"). The president implied during his speech that it would happen in a couple of weeks, but he said we need to get Iran under control first. But Trump was adamant, as he has been for weeks, that Cuba will fall. Of the regime, he said, "They want to make a deal so badly. You have no idea." Trump to Rubio: Here's Your Next Project
One thing unites the three great powers: all stand in increasingly strained relations with Brussels and the leading capitals of the European Union. Fresh Troubles for the EU
This result is actually disappointing, in that an impact of this asteroid, estimated to be about 200 feet in diameter, would have not only been spectacular, but would have been scientifically useful. ... The impact would have also eliminated the chance this asteroid might hit the Earth in the future. New Webb data says asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss the Moon in 2032
...these results add weight to the need for developing interplanetary spaceships with some sort of artificial gravity. Does weightlessness cause blood clots?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 is touted as a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. However, this year’s celebration is also providing a worldwide platform from which gender ideologues hope to promote their efforts to recognize men who say they identify as women as actual women through official themes and a number of trans-inclusive events worldwide. Make that make sense. Celebrating International Women’s Day In a Culture That Cannot Define What a Woman Is
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“By age seven, the younger Mill had read most of Plato’s dialogues. . . He did not believe that happiness itself could be attained by rational means. . . Larger ideals are just what technocratic liberalism tells us to do without. . .I don’t want to see armies of drones when I look out the window. . .Liberals would do well to take more seriously the anti-liberal critique of technocracy.” Abundance Is Not Enough
A once-banned novel about migration and civilizational guilt reads today less like dystopia than prophecy—an unsettling mirror held up to a West losing the will to defend itself. The Camp of the Living Dead
Time and again, what appears to be the inexorable march to the hard left turns out to be another example of fake news. Traditional, right-of-center Americans are usually too peace-loving to take to the streets and too respectful of law and order to vandalize stores or set buildings on fire when things don’t go their way. Often, it looks like most of the momentum is on the left by their frequent shows of riotous force. From Bud Light to Netflix, Traditional Americans Keep Winning the War on ‘Woke’
Above all, however, this history does illustrate what Washington himself believed, that God himself was on his side, that “the same bountiful Providence, which has relieved us in a variety of difficulties before, will enable us to emerge from them ultimately and crown our struggles
with success.” Tuchman illustrates the almost miraculous confluence of events that made
that success possible. And in looking at those facts, it sure looks like God was playing favorites in making the birth of the United States possible. The American Revolution, as seen from across the Atlantic
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That's up from the current 8GB, but the details kind of make sense given the exact specs of the 5050. The update would switch from four 16Gb DDR6 chips running at 20GHz to three 24Gb DDR7 chips running at 28GHz.
It would provide a little more memory and a little more performance while using fewer components. The rest of Nvidia's 5000 series graphics cards all use DDR7 memory; the entry-level 5050 was the only one that did not.
I have the smaller, cheaper Idea Tab Nothing. It's not an amazing performer but the display is first rate - Lenovo calls it "paperlike" and I can't disagree. It doesn't feel like looking at a screen at all; it feels like magic.
The new model has a 13" 3540x2190 display (mine has an 11" 2560x1600 screen), 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a microSD slot, and a pen. The specs don't use the term "paperlike" anywhere but I hope it's similar.
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - March 5, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Thomas Point Shoal Light Station in the Chesapeake Bay
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday night ONT. Today may or may not be an important day for your humble host. Either way, thanks for stopping by!
As Boeing manufactured newer, faster jet bombers for the Air Force, mid-air refueling aircraft lagged behind. The standard refueling aircraft at the time, the propeller-powered KC-97, flew much slower than the jet-powered bombers it was meant to refuel. To Boeing president William Allen, it seemed like only a matter of time before a jet tanker became necessary.
The Air Force hadn't requested a jet-powered refueling aircraft, but Allen was sure that they'd buy it once they saw it fly. His $16 million bet eventually led to the creation of the 707 jetliner and the Air Force's KC-135 tanker.
Development began in 1952. To keep the project under wraps and ensure they were the first to market, Boeing named the prototype the 367-80, nicknamed "Dash 80," to disguise it as a piston-powered aircraft from Boeing's 300 series.
Really interesting backstory on this technology. Check it out!
A new exhibition in London takes visitors behind the scenes of the beloved stop-motion franchise featuring Wallace and Gromit. The show marks 50 years since the founding of Aardman, the animation studio behind classics like The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and “The Wrong Trousers.”
“Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends” is now on view at the Young V&A museum. Through set models, props, demonstrations and interactive exhibits, the show illustrates how Aardman producers brought to life characters like Wallace, Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph for half a century.
“Aardman is an incredibly complex and skilled operation,” Alex Newson, the museum’s chief curator, tells the Guardian’s Catherine Shoard. “It’s also slow. Each animator only produces around two seconds of footage a day. Yet it’s one of the most accessible creative processes; even a small child can grasp it.”
Interesting article. Lengthy. Check it out!
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WTF??
He thought he put his opponent in an impossible situation and then bro does this… pic.twitter.com/3H6vp81xwe
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) March 5, 2026
The world's most complex aerial obstacle course, flown via wingsuit. I remember doing this about ten years ago. I was playing Arkham Asylum and doing the side-mission to get the grapnel boost. It was intense, man. My save point was on fire, dude.
What a disgusting cuck. Choosing terrorists over his wife.
I'm sure someone else is banging her. Must be, right?
Levi Strauss Heir Dan Goldman Distances Himself From Pro-Israel Wife Who 'Liked' Social Media Post From 'God Bless Donald Trump'
One meme that caught Corinne Goldman's eye mocked the slogan 'Jews for Palestine' as 'chickens for KFC'
Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.) has a girl problem. The Levi Strauss heir, best known for serving as lead counsel in the first impeachment of Donald Trump, was forced to distance himself from his own wife to avoid alienating a core Democratic constituency: terrorist supporters.
Goldman threw his wife, Corinne Levy Goldman, under the bus this week after left-wing activists in his Manhattan district circulated screenshots of social media posts she had "liked" in the aftermath of Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist massacre. In a statement to the New York Times, the congressman insisted that his wife does "not speak for me." Like many married couples, he explained, they do not always share the same views--particularly when one of them is trying to survive a Democratic primary in a district where hostility toward Israel has become something of a litmus test.
The controversy stems from nearly a dozen social media posts that Mrs. Goldman liked or shared in the weeks after the Hamas attack, which many Democratic voters embraced as a triumph of "anti-colonial resistance." The Goldman family was in Israel at the time.
Among the posts Mrs. Goldman liked was a widely circulated meme from the popular account @EndWokeness mocking the slogan "Jews for Palestine" as "Chickens for KFC." She also liked posts suggesting that Western activists who chant "Free Palestine" might consider relocating to Gaza and living under Hamas rule. Another post came from the account "God Bless Donald Trump," which praised Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson for arguing that the United States should revoke visas for visitors from places such as Iran and the Palestinian territories if Hamas executed American hostages.
Left-wing activists quickly seized on the posts, circulating screenshots and bringing them up at town halls in an effort to weaken Goldman's credibility with pro-Hamas Democrats. The congressman faces a tough primary challenge from former New York City comptroller Brad Lander, an outspoken critic of Israel. Goldman's critics argue that his wife's social media activity was proof that he also hated Hamas, which would put him at odds with the anti-Western values of his constituents. The congressman's district includes portions of Manhattan and Brooklyn, where anti-Israel activism has flourished since the Gaza war began.
Goldman told the Times that his wife's antagonism toward terrorists and their supporters did not reflect his own views.
"Like most married couples, my wife and I do not always share the same views, and any tweets she has liked as a private citizen do not speak for me," he said. "As an elected official and public figure, my record, votes and public statements are the only reflection of my beliefs."
CNN now broadcasting stories approved by the Iranian government. They admit they are in Iran "only with government permission."
🚨 BREAKING: The employee of Gov. Tim Walz who keyed SIX Teslas causing over **$20,000** in damage in retaliation against @ElonMusk has been given a ONE DAY SUSPENSION from his Minnesota government job
WOW. Marcelo Gomes da Silva, the illegal alien guest that Rep. Seth Moulton (D) brought to the State of the Union address, was reportedly mentioned in police reports involving "sexual assault and juveniles.”
NEW: The Boston Herald reports that Rep. Seth Moulton's (D-MA) illegal immigrant SOTU guest is referenced in police reports involving sexual assault and juveniles. Moulton hid him in his office during the speech and called him a "great American".
Capitol Police were attempting to remove an unhinged protestor from the Armed Services hearing. He was fighting back. I decided to help out and deescalate the situation.
This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one. I hope he gets the help he… https://t.co/MU1THo8fKA
🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: Brian McGinnis — the protestor who resisted Capitol Police and got hauled out — has been EXPOSED as an ardent pro-Islam, pro-Hamas and pro-illegal alien mouthpiece
Production on the next James Bond film is underway. Tentatively titled James Bond 26 (27 if you include the non-Eon Never Say Never Again) falls under Amazon, which purchased Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and inherited the distribution rights to its films, including the 007 movies.
This "news" article is off to a bad start. No, Bond 26 is not "tentatively titled James Bond 26." How stupid. Bond movies are routinely referred to unofficially as "Bond X" until the title is revealed, but in no way would anyone who understands the Bond franchise or the usual operations of the English language say that these movies are "tentatively titled" Bond X.
Also, EON would never include the non-EON Never Say Never Again in its count of EON Bond films.
This seems like it's written by someone who knows nothing.
So, standard media story, then.
Amazon MGM Studios later acquired creative control of the future of the Bond franchise from longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who have been replaced by Amy Pascal (Spider-Man: Homecoming) and David Heyman (the Harry Potter films).
Dune and Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve is helming the new film, while Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight is on writing duties.
A New Rumor About the Film
But we do know that the next 007 will be male, despite rumors of a "gender-swap" doing the rounds following No Time to Die (2021), the final entry in Daniel Craig's series. Craig himself has even publicly opposed the idea. However, a new rumor suggests that the next "Bond girl" will be non-binary, with actor Emma Corrin in line to play the spy's love interest.
NewswirePatriot on X (Twitter) claims that the new Bond film has "officially gone woke":
WARNING: James Bond has officially gone woke! The new love interest in the Bond franchise will be "non-binary" actress Emma Corrin. The producers "wanted to prove even legacy franchises can embrace queer storytelling."
Of course, this should be treated strictly as a rumor and nothing more.
To be honest, I think "treating it strictly as a rumor" would be giving it far more credit than it deserves. This seems like the most amateurish clickbait nonsense, and that's coming from someone who wants this to be true.
I don't think this rises to the level of "rumor." This is just stupid nonsense.
Speaking of Woke Takes: People fault the Nolan Odyssey movie for a lot silly race-bending casting -- a black Helen of Troy, for example -- and for an absurd helmet.
Look at how ridiculous Agamemnon's helmet is:
At least Agamemnon will only be in the movie for like three minutes, so we don't have to see that stupid helmet for long.
But I think I heard that Aphrodite will also be black. Of course.
Supposedly this is pretty good, but Chris Gore from Film Threat said you have to temper your expectations. He says people are going to overhype this, and then the movie won't live up to that hype. So, it sounds good, but not good enough that it can meet elevated expectations:
Hugh Jackman plays an older Robin Hood in The Death of Robin Hood.
Yes, this sounds a lot like Robin and Marion, with Sean Connery as an older, bald Robin, and Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
That pencil-necked pussy dweeb Patrick Willems had a point about Robin Hood and King Arthur: Hollywood keeps making "revisionist" takes on these figures -- dark and gritty retellings, supposedly "historically accurate" unknown true story takes -- but they keep losing money because those kind of revisionist tellings don't work unless the public is familiar with the normal, basic story itself. You can't do a "revisionist" take about a subject where the public doesn't know the non-revisionist version of the story.
The last "normal" kind of King Arthur movie was Exclaibur from 1981, and the last (arguably) "normal" Robin Hood was the Costner version in 1994 (I think). And I personally would not count that!
So the Death of Robin Hood sure would work better if there had been a successful, normie Robin Hood movie in the past ten years. Like you know, the Merry Men, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, cutting nooses with well-aimed arrows, etc.
Maybe the Quisling JD Vance will finally find his manhood as well.
Jonathan Karl
@jonkarl
In a lengthy conversation just now, President Trump hit back at Tucker Carlson who called the Iran war "absolutely disgusting and evil."
"Tucker has lost his way," Trump told me. "I knew that a long time ago, and he's not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that."
Tucker has been having a genuine mental breakdown to find out he's actually not very influential and that he can't help his Islamist paymasters blow up Tel Aviv.
He started by claiming the Jewish Charity Chabad is actually brainwashing Trump into doing Israel's bidding.
This is particularly dangerous because, as a charity, Chabbad is public-facing, meaning it has lots of offices terrorists can bomb. And terrorists already attack Chabad houses and set fire to them.
This isn't Israel, a country with a very serious security apparatus. This is charity with offices right on the street and, at most, a single 70 year old volunteer "security guard" at the door.
And Tucker just told all of his Islamist and Nazi viewers to attack Chabad.
Based on nothing except the demonic voices in his own drug-ravaged brain, Tucker also announced that Israel started this war so that it could blow up the terrorist-beloved Al-Asqa mosque and rebuild the Jewish temple there.
Ever hear of the terrorist Al-Asqa Brigades? Well Tucker is now telling them that the Jews are coming to blow up their temple. Better act fast -- wink.
There is literally nothing backing up this claim, except this is the sort of conspiracy theories terrorist jihadis routinely concoct to excite young men into wearing suicide vests.
Could this be a religious war designed to rebuild the Third Temple on the ashes of Al Aqsa? Hope not. pic.twitter.com/bXxLH1sLDf
Hamas, through its terrorist-propaganda Quds Network, retweeted this.
So did Cavernous Nostrils:
Tucker's and Candace's conspiracy theories are at war with each other:
Joel Richardson
@Joel7Richardson
I'm just trying to keep the Candace/Tucker storyline straight here. Israel can't have any prophetic significance because it's a secular, godless state and the people there aren't even real Jews anyway -- they're Turkic Khazar impostors. But at the same time Israel is masterminding a global religious war so they can rebuild the Third Jewish Temple. So the working theory is that a nation of secular atheist Turks are masterminding the restoration of the ancient Jewish priesthood and Temple system, which requires verified Jewish lineage to function. These sneaky Turks!
From UFOs to chemtrails to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The Fake MAGA Grifters are abandoning the only thing that keeps a roof over their heads.
Calling out and shunning the Woke Right has never been "in-fighting." They have ALWAYS been the right hand of the left. https://t.co/7cLaHb8fXM
— Keri Smith 🌱Deprogrammed (@RealKeriSmith) March 5, 2026
Remember every time you heard the phrase “woke right” and thought “I hate that phrase! There’s no such thing!”
Take a look at your X feed right now. All of the Woke Right is pushing the same “don’t vote” or “vote for Democrats” message right now, with their own spin on it.… pic.twitter.com/rw0bDMt6RG
— Keri Smith 🌱Deprogrammed (@RealKeriSmith) March 5, 2026
Good luck with that, Fellas! I mean, you're all soooooo talented and full of skills I'm sure you will, like Government Teachers, make much more money in the private sector.
Has anyone asked, "Why is this guy still taken seriously by anyone, especially conservatives?" pic.twitter.com/DnZjjQhfTH
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) March 5, 2026
The pro-Hitler "popular historian" that Tucker praised as the "Most honest historian on the internet" says PROTECT TUCKER FROM THE JEWS:
You and Tucker both campaigned for Trump in 2024, and used your platforms to encourage others to vote for him. Now you're both variously accusing him of covering up a giant child rape ring, and launching an apocalyptic religious war. Who could take either of you seriously? https://t.co/zBRqT1Hl3D
Credibly-accused homosexual and Nazi, and Husband of the Year, of course, Elijah Schaeffer says xhe's out, too.
Also, some woman that apparently became MAGA Grifter Famous for saying "N****r." To be honest, I have no idea who this woman is. But Elijah Schaeffer sure seems to think she's a bigtime influencer.
I love that it’s all of the worst people in the world - Schaffer, the N-word idiot, Fuentes, etc - who we’ve been saying for a year or 2 now are saboteurs, who are now pitching fits about leaving. 🤣😆
Great! Goodbye! See ya! The Woke Right are grifting, fake, fraudulent pieces… pic.twitter.com/rmKSlMFTcY
— Keri Smith 🌱Deprogrammed (@RealKeriSmith) March 5, 2026
Karol Markowitz made a good point: Tucker shows off his White House access in order to get big $1 million paychecks to appear on panels.
This is Hunter-Biden-esque influence peddling. Did Tucker learn this from Hunter when they were, as Tucker admits, friends and fellow addicts?
And now that Trump has declared Tucker persona non grata, his Grifter Speech Fee is going to take a hit.
Karol Markowicz
@karol
People focus on Tucker's son but we can't help when we have, ahem, insane parents. The real issue is that Tucker sells his access to the White House. No one is paying a podcaster close to a million dollars a speech on some real estate panel unless they think he has a real in.
Karol Markowicz
@karol
This whole idea that Vance isn't tied to Tucker is betrayed by the fact that Tucker is frequently in the White House and uses that influence to book himself speaking tours of the Middle East. The adopted Hunter attaches himself to Vance and everyone knows it.
The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday said it bombed a compound in Tehran housing Iran's cyber warfare headquarters -- but it's unclear whether the strike will significantly kneecap Iran's cyberattack capabilities.
According to a statement from the IDF, its forces on Wednesday carried out a "wide-scale strike" targeting a collection of military sites on the Eastern edge of Tehran that allegedly housed the headquarters of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The IDF claims that the headquarters of the IRGC's "cyber and electronic headquarters" and its "Intelligence Directorate" were among the military outposts hit in the strike.
It's unclear to what extent these military sites were damaged or whether there were any casualties. Iran remains under an almost total internet blackout, which began on Feb. 28 when the first U.S. and Israeli strikes began, limiting the flow of information coming out of Iran.
Just like Jake Tapper starts talking about The Troops whenever he's in trouble, Tucker's going to start quoting that Bible that he just read for the first time at the start of his podcast career two years ago.
I'm not saying anything bad about the Bible just like I mean no disrespect to the troops.
But this is how these manipulative psychopathic narcissists operate, at least until enough people call them on these cynical tactics.
I know some people don't like when other people's Christianity is questioned, but surely you must know that there is a big "trad" movement in which people who are banging each other's fiances, getting abortions, and engaging in gay sex with younger people are all pretending to be true-believing traditional Christians, right?
Based on search results from February and March 2026, Sarah Stock (also referred to as Sarah Setka) and conservative media figure Elijah Schaffer were involved in a scandal surrounding a 6-month affair
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The Affair Allegations: In early 2026, leaks from Milo Yiannopoulos alleged that Stock, a "tradwife" influencer who previously appeared on the Whatever podcast, had an affair with her boss, Elijah Schaffer, while she was married.
Controversy and Fallout: The affair led to significant online backlash, with critics highlighting the hypocrisy regarding their public, traditional Christian values. Reports indicated that Stock admitted to the affair, which reportedly resulted in a pregnancy and abortion.
Schaffer's Response: Elijah Schaffer, known for his work on "Slightly Offensive" and as a MAGA/conservative influencer, faced intense scrutiny following the leak of the affair.
Subsequent Actions: Reports suggested that Sarah Stock decided to step away from politics following the scandal.
Milo claims Schaffer frequently hit on younger men for sex, too.
I know it's ugly, but noticing isn't ugly. The thing being noticed is ugly. There are a lot of disgraceful and frankly demonic people who are posing as the most pious, sugar-won't-melt-in-our-mouths Austere Religious Scholars now.
Jesus is just a Branding Opportunity to these Pharisees. They're doing collabs with the Holy Spirit, inviting God into their streams.
There is no doubt that Christianity is having a real moment of Born-Again Cool. I know that's a frivolous way to say it, but it's true, Christianity is having a moment of cultural coolness. That's good, except it also attracts the kind of superficial and sleazy people who join things just because they're cool, whether it's pretending to like Marvel superheroes or pretending to believe in Jesus.
I know Christianity is having a "coolness" moment because for a couple of years I've felt that superficial attraction of coolness myself. I almost got a "combat rosary" because I thought it was cool. I put that stuff on hold because I realized, Gee, this isn't a very good reason to become a Christian, I think Jesus would almost be mad at me for this superficial nonsense.
Anyway, we are seeing a lot of people who have always broadcast their complete adherence to secularism -- like Megyn Kelly -- suddenly deciding that maybe it's cool to be Catholic (or whichever demomination). Some of these people who superficially embrace religion for the wrong reasons, but may well wind up becoming actually religious even though it all began as a stunt. And some of them will just use religion as a cover while they f*** other men's fiances and try to f*** every young man in their vicinity.
I don't know who is who, but it is perfectly reasonable to be suspicious of so many people, who seem like absolute scumbags, suddenly "Finding Jesus" at a time when Jesus is trending online and can deliver you clicks. I can't say for sure who the False Prophets are, but it's more than justified to be a little skeptical when a seemingly lifelong atheist Northeastern Establishment Liberal Nepo-Baby like Tucker Carlson reads, at age 55, the Bible for the first time on the eve of launching his podcast.
I can't say for sure he did this out of mercenary reasons. And sometimes one's own mercenary motives are hidden from we ourselves, as we convince ourselves that we're doing the right thing by doing right for our careers.
But I think I am justified in being skeptical of all these sudden Podcast Converts.
The "Moderate Democrat" Governess of Virginia Is Responsible for the Murder of Stephanie Minter and People Are Noticing
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Greg Price
@greg_price11
The murder of Stephanie Minter in Fairfax has turned into an unbelievably massive scandal.
A newly released email shows that the Fairfax Police Department warned Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano's office this past November about releasing illegal alien repeat offender Adbul Jalloh back into the community.
They said "it's not a question of if, but when he will maliciously wound (or worse) again." And they were right. He murdered Stephanie Minter at a bus stop last week.
Steve Descano and Abigail Spanberger have blood on their hands.
The murder of Stephanie Minter in Fairfax has turned into an unbelievably massive scandal.
A newly released email shows that the Fairfax Police Department warned Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano's office this past November about releasing illegal alien repeat offender Adbul… pic.twitter.com/Zwd2UQRIhi
Multiple Virginia Democrats REFUSE to answer questions about Stephanie Minter, who was reportedly m*rdered by a criminal illegal alien with 30+ arrests.
Trump Eases Kristi Noem Out of DHS Spot, Promoting Her Downwards to Head an Agency No One Ever Heard Of
—Disinformation Expert Ace
And I don't mean a cool sexy agency no one ever heard of like UNCLE.
I just mean, I have never heard of "Shield of the Americas" before.
Sounds kind of cool.
Also sounds made-up.
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
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BREAKING: U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), effective March 31, 2026, according to President Trump.
"The current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida. I thank Kristi for her service at "Homeland."
The news comes hours after the National Review reported that Trump was "furious" that Noem suggested that he gave approval of a taxpayer-funded $220M ad campaign contract.
🚨 BREAKING — IT'S OFFICIAL: Kristi Noem is OUT as DHS Secretary and Sen. Markwayne Mullin is taking her place
Noem is being appointed "Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral"… pic.twitter.com/gpXJ96X6eL
About that ad: It was faulted for spending $220 million of taxpayer money on what appeared to be largely a promotion of Noem herself. She claims Trump approved of it -- Trump is pissed, telling people he never even heard of the ad until it aired.
💰📺 A tense Senate exchange is raising new questions about a $220 million DHS ad campaign featuring Secretary Kristi Noem.
Sen. John Kennedy pressed Noem on how the spending aligns with the administration’s push to cut government waste — and whether President Trump personally… pic.twitter.com/9pV19CkQkh
Trump Wins Major, Major 9-0 Win at Supreme Court: Lowly Lawless District Court Justices Must Defer to Immigration Judges
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Immigration judges are actually part of the Executive. There's a big distinction between Article III courts and judges -- those organized under the Judiciary branch -- and other courts (including military courts, tax courts, and immigration courts, among others) established by the Executive.
It should also be noted that Congress decides what cases may be heard by Article III courts -- and also, what cases will be heard by administrative/executive courts.
Since Trump assumed office for his second term, lawless lowly leftwing district court justices have declared that they, not the immigration courts created by Congress, will have ultimate power to decide when the government is allowed to deport criminal illegal aliens who have been under final order of deportation, sometimes for decades. The lawless lowly leftwing district court justices have routinely presumed to overrule those courts and contrive reasons while foreign criminals must be allowed to remain perpetually in the US.
It is true that these cases can be appealed to Article III courts -- but the lowly leftwing district court judges have been giving zero deference to the factual determinations of these courts, instead of doing what courts usually do, which is giving a lot of deference to factual determinations and only correcting on matters of erroneous legal interpretations.
Appeals are not about fact-finding. Fact-finding happens in the originating court. Appeals are for review of legal rulings, not factual determinations.
Appeals courts can set aside factual determinations but only by a high "clear and convincing standard" -- they have to find that the lower court clearly, convincingly got the facts wrong. Anything less than that the appeals court has to accept their findings of fact.
But these lawless leftwing judges have been routinely treating every appeal of a deportation order as a complete factual do-over, with the lawless leftwing district court judge now determining the "facts" as he'd like them to be.
The Supreme Court just said: "No."
This case is such a slam-dunk they let The Retard write the opinion. (The Black Retard, not the Wise Latina Retard. The one who by her own admission "just doesn't understand" nearly everything said to her.)
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling Wednesday ordering federal appeals courts to defer to immigration judges when reviewing asylum decisions, bolstering the executive branch's authority in immigration cases and handing the Trump administration a win as it pushes an aggressive deportation agenda.
Jackson, a Biden appointee and one of three liberal justices on the high court, wrote that immigration laws require federal courts to use a "substantial-evidence standard" when reviewing immigration judges' decisions about whether an asylum seeker could face "persecution" if deported.
Jackson emphasized the high bar courts must meet before overturning an immigration judge's findings, potentially making it more difficult for migrants to challenge their deportations as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration.
"The agency's determination... is generally 'conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary,'" Jackson wrote.
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, migrants can claim asylum when crossing the border without documentation. But immigration judges, who are employees of the Department of Justice, eventually vet those claims and determine whether to grant migrants asylum, which would allow them to stay in the country, or order their deportation.
The migrant can appeal the decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which is also housed within the executive branch, and can then appeal that decision to the federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court.
The decision in this case, Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, affirmed that the judicial branch must largely defer to the executive branch's findings about whether the migrant would suffer persecution if deported, rather than start from scratch and conduct its own review.
"Another WIN for common sense!" the conservative think tank America First Policy Institute wrote on X. "The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that immigration agencies not individual judges determine asylum claims based on alleged persecution. A clear reminder: America's laws should be enforced as written."
Special Note: Voters claim they want "changes" but the moment someone attempts changes they recoil. They're stupid, in the main. They'll say they want all illegals deported and then when Trump deports the worst of the worst, the killers and rapists and pedophiles, the media runs stories about these nice Maryland Men and then the same people who say they want all aliens deported say "But not like this!"
Again, they're stupid.
I point this out because Trump is making truly momentous changes and those changes should be driving his popularity down very low. The stupid voters, remember. The ones who want "change" without anything actually changing. The ones who demand massive transformations without any controversy or disruption.
The fact that he is maintaining a good-but-not-great approval rating while Fundamentally Transforming the United States is a major feat.
🚨 BREAKING: It was just confirmed that President Trump has a HIGHER approval rating than both Barack Hussein Obama and George Bush at this point in their 2nd terms — RealClearPolitics
Oh look! Another issue that will be used by the incoherent anti-American media to bash...let's make a list! President Trump, Secretary Hegseth, General Caine, Israel, the military in general, and probably your local Republican congressman.
Left uncriticized will be the last administration, or the Biden/Obama junta for those with a brain, that sent all sorts of military hardware to Ukraine without understanding or caring about replenishment. And Congress, which is obsessed with funding the building of grand weapons systems, but can't be bothered to fund adequately the mundane, boring, but oh-so-essential stuff like replacement missiles and artillery shells.
And they will run screaming from the pesky little bit of data that shows Donald Trump talking about replenishing our military as far back as his first presidential campaign in 2015-2016!
Of course he also campaigned on the issue in 2024, and has spoken about the issue as president.
The Trump administration is considering invoking the Defense Production Act to ramp up the manufacturing of munitions, driven by worries about U.S. inventory levels during the ongoing “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran. This law permits the government to direct production priorities toward critical national security requirements; the idea of invoking it has surfaced in closed-door briefings on Capitol Hill, per people with knowledge of the discussions.
President Donald J. Trump has openly called on defense manufacturers to speed up output, stating, “We have unlimited middle and upper ammunition, which is really what we’re using in this war.” Trump further stated that defense firms are operating “under emergency orders” to fulfill military demands.
Is it an issue? Absolutely! We cannot allow our stocks to be depleted without a robust plan to replenish them...and fast! The particular problem of course is that these missiles are amazingly complex, and simply take a long while to build. Throwing industrial capacity at the problem is unlike that of World War II, where we were able to convert civilian manufacturing to produce war materiel in a very short time. In addition to the obvious (Boeing,Grumman, etc.) Ford, GM, Chrysler, American Locomotive Company, Singer, International Harvester, Frigidaire, IBM, and many more civilian companies shifted production to planes and tanks and aircraft engines and other needed materiel. The list is amazing, and includes companies like Steinway Pianos, Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation (jukeboxes!), Lionel, Hoover, and on and on.
But...there is a small but rapidly growing niche, in which small and nimble high-tech firms can build advanced weaponry much more quickly than the traditional manufacturers.As an example, those $35,000 drones we are using in Iran are built by a small company that is barely 10 years old! Spektreworks has built hundreds of these drones that have been put to good use at a comparatively low cost, and more importantly, they delivered quickly!
Is this the answer to our supply issues? No, but it is part of it. President Trump will need to pressure the large, traditional manufacturers to stop doing business as usual, and start producing without the procurement nonsense that anyone with a passing knowledge of the process will explain. They have grown fat and lazy, and Donald Trump is just the man to whip them into shape.
As the nature of modern warfare changes rapidly, these companies must be far more nimble than they were. Drones were toys just a few years ago, and now they are a significant threat on the battlefield. A 10-year design and procurement pathway will not work!
And countering the drone threat will be a huge market, with unknown technology that might shift the battlefield tomorrow or next year. Israel's laser-based anti-missile system is changing the paradigm already, and it is entirely possible that there is a small tech firm in America that is working on the next radical advancement.
President Trump's dislike of regulation and the sclerotic pace of government and industry will be a huge driver of this sort of advancement. He has already set the tone, and I wouldn't bet against American ingenuity!
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The Garvagh Madonna or The Aldobrandini Madonna)
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
It was owned by the Aldobrandini family for a very long time, but the last owners before it was sold to Britain's National gallery were the Garvaghs, so that is what the museum calls it.
It is really small, but impressive in its warmth and gentleness of portrayal.
If anyone wants to steal it, I will be happy to buy it!
Good morning kids. While the military campaign continues over and around Iran — pretty amazing that we sank an enemy warship with a torpedo fired from a submarine for the first time since the end of World War 2! —the question is what is the ultimate goal and what will it take to achieve it. My understanding is the complete dismantling of the Iranian regime's ability to produce nuclear weapons and the ability to deploy them, i.e. their missile production and firing capabilities. But beyond bombing infrastructure, the only way to ensure that is indeed regime change. I have no problem with that since it was Iran that declared and has been at war with the United States of America since the removal of the Shah and the installation of the current Islamic government in 1979. And the Ayatollahs have openly demonstrated that "Death to America" is not merely a slogan but the nation's foreign policy goal and raison d'être.
The first attempt the surviving rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran made to replace their fallen supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, didn’t quite go as planned. Fox News reported Tuesday that “Israeli forces struck an Iranian Supreme Council gathering on Tuesday as the group was meeting to choose a successor to the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.” According to Fox News’ Trey Yingst, “They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what’s left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new Supreme Leader.”
The remaining high command quickly regrouped, however. Also on Tuesday, Iran International reported that “Iran’s clerical body, the Assembly of Experts, has elected Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ali Khamenei, as the Islamic Republic’s new Supreme Leader, according to his informed sources who spoke to Iran International on condition of anonymity.
”Dr. Eric Mandel of the Middle East Political and Information Network (MEPIN) observed that Mojtaba Khamenei is “widely viewed as one of the architects of the regime’s repression.” Iran analyst Arash Azizi added that the new supreme leader “has been a bete noire of democratic movements at least since 2009 when he was rumored to have helped orchestrate the repression.
Terrific. The US Navy can return to port and the Air Force can stand down. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?! This is not regime change and certainly if we accept this outcome, the "new" government will clean up the rubble and immediately begin reconstituting its nuclear weapons and missile programs as well as continue slaughtering anyone who they even suspect of daring to object.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signaled prolonged U.S. military involvement in Iran on Wednesday morning, stating a surge of forces is “accelerating, not decelerating. . . “As President Trump said, more and larger waves are coming. We are just getting started,” Hegseth said. “We are accelerating, not decelerating. Iran’s capabilities are evaporating by the hour, while American strength grows fiercer, smarter and utterly dominant. More bombers and more fighters are arriving.” “To our steadfast partner, Israel: Your mission is being executed with unmatched skill and iron determination,” he added. “Fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with such a capable ally is a true force multiplier and a breath of fresh air. We salute your courage and your contribution — four days in we have only just begun to fight.”
“Can’t we just get tired of — are we tired of being wrong, consistently, on the region?” Fetterman also stated that people in the party don’t want to be seen as agreeing with President Donald Trump.
“If you can render Iran essentially incapable of military action against us and against our allies thats worthy, and I think what they’re trying to do is to neuter Iran as a military power in the region,” she said.
Frederick Haynes III, the senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, secured the Democratic nomination for the seat Crockett will vacate in January 2027 due to her decision to mount her ultimately unsuccessful campaign for the Senate, according to The Associated Press. During the diatribe he unleashed the Sunday following the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of Kirk, Haynes claimed that Kirk’s positions were “rooted in white supremacy.”
To paraphrase the immortal lyrics of The Who, Meet the new Democrat, same as the old Democrat. Feh.
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Raw Egg Nationalist: Tocqueville feared mob rule; instead, America now confronts an unchecked judiciary willing to override law, precedent, and the people to block a sitting president’s agenda. America’s Imperial Judiciary
Questions that remains unanswered are who will take control of Iran after all of its potential leaders or successors are dead, as Hegseth said? What would a governing coalition look like, would it be stable, and what are the conditions for ending U.S. involvement in another war in the Middle East? ‘We Are Just Getting Started’: Hegseth Signals Prolonged U.S. Commitment In Iran
A senior Iranian Kurdish official told CNN the plan is fairly advanced, and the Kurds could begin a ground operation “in the coming days,” emboldened by their belief that they have a “big chance” to topple a regime crippled by devastating U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. The Times of Israel (TOI) also reported consultations between Iranian Kurdish militias and the United States. TOI said the Kurds have been training for battle with regime forces, and have asked the CIA to supply them with weapons, but “a final decision has not yet been made on the operation and its possible timing.” “Three sources with knowledge of the matter” confirmed the report of U.S. consultation with the Iranian Kurds to Reuters on Tuesday. As with TOI’s report, Reuters said a “final decision has not yet been made on the operation and its possible timing.” Reports Claim U.S. Arming Kurds to Fight Iran
So I had to laugh yesterday when China's $400 billion, 25-year comprehensive co-operation agreement with Iran, in practice, amounts to moral support in the U.N., and less than nothing else. Military aid in Tehran's most desperate hour? How do you say "Fuggidaboudit" in Mandarin? China Only Cares About This One Thing, and Sorry Iran, but It Ain't You
The big takeaway here is that even in a poll of all adults—not merely registered voters—it shows a 3–1 approval for Trump’s attack on Iran if it’s over in a few weeks. And again, this poll is coming from CBS of all places… not exactly a collection of right-wing crazies. New Poll Shows Dems Are Wrong on Another 80/20 Issue
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Frederick Haynes III, the senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, secured the Democratic nomination for the seat Crockett will vacate in January 2027 due to her decision to mount her ultimately unsuccessful campaign for the Senate, according to The Associated Press. During the diatribe he unleashed the Sunday following the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of Kirk, Haynes claimed that Kirk’s positions were “rooted in white supremacy.” (RELATED: Texas Democrat Senate Nominee Has Crazy Ideas About God And The Bible) Jasmine Crockett’s Potential Replacement In Congress Called Charlie Kirk’s Positions ‘Rooted In White Supremacy’
Taylor, who is based in the Dallas area, added, “Sources tell me the pursuit started when he fled Sierra Blanca Checkpoint (a remote area between El Paso and Van Horn), crashed his car, then fired at officers, who returned fire, and killed him.” Border Patrol Shoots Armed Man at Checkpoint
The 57 percent includes 54 percent of political independents and 79 percent of Republicans, but just 35 percent of Democrats, said the February 26-28 poll of 1,999 registered voters by The Harris Poll and HarrisX. Poll: 57 Percent of Americans Want All Illegal Migrants Sent Home
“It is the only metric that means someone actually left, ICE ERO only,” the source continued. “Not an arrest, not a detention, not a voluntary departure, not a border turnaround, hand off from [Customs and Border Protection] — a completed, executed deportation with a paper trail in ICE’s system.” SCOOP: There’s More Than Meets The Eye In Noem DHS’ Deportation Figures
Although the CFPB was established to protect consumers, its lack of accountability to Congress and mission creep have harmed the American people. Many attempts have been made to reform the CFPB, but any meaningful change must begin with structural reforms that restore the agency’s narrow purpose of protecting consumers. CFPB Reform Requires Increased Accountability
Aaron Spencer won 53.53% of the vote against two challengers in the primary, according to the Arkansas Secretary of State’s website. President Donald Trump won Lonoke County, a predominately suburban county in the Little Rock metropolitan area, by over 50% in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. Arkansas Man Charged In Killing Of Daughter’s Alleged Rapist Wins GOP Sheriff Nomination
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
An investigative subcommittee announced it will probe allegations that (Tony) Gonzales “engaged in sexual misconduct towards an individual employed in his congressional office” and “discriminated unfairly by dispensing special favors or privileges,” Republican Committee Chairman Rep. Michael Guest wrote in a letter Wednesday. House Ethics Committee Probes Texas Republican Tony Gonzales Over Claims Of Improper Affairs
The rat race starts young for the children of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. On the Upper East Side, as in certain wealthy enclaves of San Francisco and Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., parents devote extraordinary effort towards getting their 5-year-olds into “top-tier” K-12 schools. Race To Get Kids Into Elite NYC Schools Provides Perfect Example Of Liberal Hypocrisy
Government and political leadership remain Americans’ top concern, according to a Gallup poll conducted February 2-16. Immigration emerged as the second-most-cited issue, followed by the economy and inflation. Importantly, Gallup stresses that the survey was conducted before the United States and Israel launched military strikes on Iran on February 28. It’s NOT The Economy, Stupid! – The Issue That Most Americans List as Their TOP CONCERN Might Surprise Some.
The executive director of the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) Alex Latcham attacked the hundreds of thousands of Texas voters who voted for Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) in the GOP senatorial primary on Tuesday night, a head-scratching missive that undercuts the SLF’s stated mission of backing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) for reelection. Thune’s Right Hand Man Undercuts Cornyn Consolidation with Broadside Against Hundreds of Thousands of Texans
“Serving the people of Montana in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate the past 13 years has been the greatest honor of my professional career,” Daines said. “I’m grateful to God for allowing me to serve, but after much careful thought, I’ve decided not to seek reelection.” GOP Sen. Steve Daines Not Seeking Reelection: ‘Thankful to Have Served Alongside’ Trump
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
David Taylor, the husband of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Joani Reid, was arrested on suspicion of spying for China Wednesday. Counter-terrorism police detectives in London arrested him on suspicion of helping a foreign intelligence service, according to The Guardian. UK’s Chinese Spy Crackdown Targets Lawmaker’s Husband
“Children raised in a culture rooted in ignorance are surrounded by disorder, and sometimes even conflict,” she stated. “These societies are filled with rigid thinkers who embrace prejudice and shun human dignity. When a nation restricts thought, it restricts its own future.” (No wonder Hop Sing went ape - jjs) China Trashes Melania Trump’s Turn Leading U.N. Security Council Meeting: ‘Striking Scene’
Kennedy spoke about how Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was taking the dietary guidelines and putting them into “military meals.” Kennedy explained that Hegseth “hired a dietician,” celebrity chef Robert Irvine, who is “changing the meals on all the military bases” in the United States so that they are “real food, fresh food, locally sourced, whole food.” RFK Jr. Announces Plan to Teach Americans to Cook: ‘Americans Have Forgotten How To Cook’
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The telescope has a 5-inch mirror, so its resolution is far lower than Hubble’s 94-inch mirror, but because it is above the atmosphere its view is far better than larger ground-based telescopes. Mauve is intended as a three-year-long demonstration project, during which it will study flares from nearby stars that are thought to have exoplanets, as well as binary star systems and variable stars. It is also making this data available to scientists, for a subscription fee. It already has almost a dozen universities signed up. The first orbiting private space telescope releases “first light” image
In other words, the spokes exist because of multiple factors, some still unknown, that cause these streaks of brightness in the rings. The mysterious spokes in Saturn’s rings
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Trump’s anti-DEI push may mark the start of a deeper reckoning: not just with wokeness, but with the moral and political foundations of the civil rights regime that enabled it. The Spell of Woke is Broke: Let’s Keep It That Way
While Holtz would have his greatest moment by winning a national championship at Notre Dame in 1988, he would amass a record of dominance in his 40 years as a head coach. In all, Holtz would spend 32 of his 40 years in coaching in college football. During that time, he would win national championships and conference championships at William & Mary, NC State, and Arkansas. Lou Holtz, Legendary Notre Dame Head Coach, Dies at 89
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Podcast: CBD is joined by Buck Throckmorton (the EV industry's worst nightmare)... we discuss how the template of the Marshall Plan and "You Break It You Bought It" has been discredited by President Trump, Mexico is a flashpoint or an opportunity, more EV debacles, should we reserve employment for US citizens only, and more!
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NOW: The crowd goes TOTALLY SILENT when Biden tells them HE closed the border -- not Trump
Even a crowd full of DEMOCRATS know that's a total lie
Maybe having a dementia patient out there attempting to rewrite history ain't the brightest idea, @DNC
Nancy Mace to force a House vote of sexual misconduct report and harassment by congress members and staff. The wood chipper is no respecter of persons. Do it.
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Podcast: Sefton and CBD Talk SOTU and the Dem's vile behavior, Donald Trump's love of country, Iran is coming to a head, is Mexico intractable, Mamdani's NYC is circling the drain, and more!
Forgotten Early 80s Schmatlz Mystery Click Honey, I was your hero
And you were my leading lady
We had it all
Just like Bogie and Bacall
Ooof, it's worse than I remembered.
China Is Not Our Fren: Chinese government posts AI generated content featuring attacking and killing American soldiers. Pay attention to the ridiculous AI banter of the US soldiers. [dri]
Podcast: Sefton and CBD discuss AOC's brilliant entrance into geopolitical policy, Jesse Jackson's demise, Transsexual Psycho Killers, is NYC about to get taxed even more? Olympic athletes who bite the hand that fed them, and more!
