The Week In Woke
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A Fordham professor wants people who reject fake "birthright citizenship" actually punished for wrongthink.
'They exploit norms of collegiality and presumptions of integrity to advance trash'Law professors who support limits on birthright citizenship should be shunned in academia, according to a Fordham University scholar.
"There MUST be repercussions for the lawprofs who advanced such untenable arguments. Their behavior is -- and I mean this literally, not dehumanizingly -- parasitic," John Pfaff (pictured) wrote in a since-deleted post on BlueSky.
"They exploit norms of collegiality and presumptions of integrity to advance trash. Which undermines the work of ALL of us," he said. He later wrote, "I stand by the idea, but I should have phrased it better. Academic freedom is the right to say what you want, without INSTITUTIONAL repercussions (generally). But it's not the right to speak w NO repercussions."
40% of academics won't hire Trump voters.
Black professors outnumber their Republican colleagues at 11 elite higher education institutions including Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.Roughly 40 percent of college faculty would "oppose hiring a Trump supporter."
A quarter of faculty in social sciences and humanities departments would "support a campaign" to remove colleagues for expressing conservative views "in at least one of four topic areas."
These are just some of the issues flagged in a new report from the America First Policy Institute published this month, painting a picture on how higher education is more polarized than ever.
"When you have institutions that are being captured and co-opted by this kind of woke, DEI, critical theory mentality, this is the result," America First Policy Institute Vice Chair of Education Opportunity Michael Shires told The College Fix. "You chase out people who have even mainstream perspectives."
"If you think about it," he added, "half the electorate voted for President Trump, yet on a university campus, you know, 40% of the faculty wouldn't hire them."
The report weaves together dozens of studies, research, surveys and other findings to argue government intervention is needed to correct course, as institutional reform is not coming from within, and demands for "academic freedom" ring hollow given the bias against the right.
I'm just going to say it: I am now ready, willing, and eager to begin inflicting punishments on communists for what I consider wrongthink. If they want to criminalize my thoughts, I am now ready to use state power to criminalize theirs.
Mike Lee wants to defund schools that insanely continue to force students to get vaccinated in contradiction of their religious beliefs.
A bill that would block federal tax dollars from schools that refuse to allow religious exemptions for vaccinations has been introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who argued that educational institutions "need to learn we don't all worship Fauci."The proposed legislation, dubbed the Guaranteeing Religious Accommodation in Childhood Education (GRACE) Act, is cosponsored by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and was introduced in the House by Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL). It is endorsed by over fifty organizations, including Children's Health Defense, Moms for Liberty, and the Autism Action Network.
Not only would the bill defund schools that do not allow religious vaccine exemptions, but it would also prevent institutions from requiring documentation from students or parents in order to justify receiving such an exemption.
The Democrat-led states of California and New York both removed their religious freedom exemptions in recent years, impacting thousands of families who are now blocked from attending the schools their tax dollars pay for.
"Schools are discriminating against religious kids and targeting their families over vaccine exemptions," Lee said in a statement to Breitbart News. "Keeping a kindergartner out of class over a vaccine is cruel -- and it's unconstitutional when the reason is their family's religion."
So important you guys: Oregon's public health schools tackle the one remaining bigotry.
The Oregon Health & Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health hosts an initiative to combat "anti-fat bias.""The purpose of the Fat Justice Working Group is to engage students, faculty and staff of the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health (SPH) in learning, activities and advocacy to reduce weight stigma and anti-fat bias in ourselves, our School and society at large," the initiative's webpage states.
The group was formed by Dawn Richardson, associate dean for academic affairs, as a social justice project to oppose the "oppression" of overweight people, rejecting the notion that excessive weight correlates with poorer health.
In an open letter addressed to the SPH, part of the working group, called the Fat Justice Journal Club, expressed its concerns with the research and healthcare at the school. The letter rejects the "obesity paradigm," requests the expansion of "Fat Studies," and demands the release of public statements that fight "weight stigma and structural anti-fatness."
It includes references to works such as "Health(ism) At Every Size: The Duties of the Good Fatty," "Thick Sistahs and Heavy Disprivileged: Black Women, Intersectionality, and Weight Stigma," and "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia."
The Boyscast discusses Reddit's r/straightpegging subreddit, where "straight" guys brag about being pegged by their "girlfriends." Content warning: It's about pegging.
Ice T has some news for guys in the r/straightpegging subreddit.
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Jim Varney: Biden Pissed Billions Into Blue States for a More Racially "Equitable" Energy Infrastructure -- and the Agencies Are Continuing to Give Away Billions Despite Trump Vowing to Stop It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The old hand of dead men are locked on to the wheel and won't let us turn away from disaster.
Biden Bucks: Climate Change Funds a Bonanza for State Outfits
For much of its five-decade history, the Colorado Energy Office was a small department with a handful of employees who supported practical, cost-saving energy conservation measures. From 2010 to 2022, records show, the office received an average of $7 million per year from the U.S. Department of Energy.All that changed after the Biden administration and Congress approved hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending to provide "a more equitable, low-carbon, and clean energy economy." In fiscal year 2024, Colorado's state energy office was slated to receive $157.5 million from the energy department, along with another $156 million from the Environmental Protection Agency. The Biden team's defeat in the 2024 election didn't stop the gusher, either, as an additional $60 million in funding was allocated after voters elected Trump and his promise to halt the spending.
A RealClearInvestigations search of government data shows that the Colorado Energy Office was just one of many agencies and groups across the country that received exponential increases in federal grants during Biden's last two years as part of the unprecedented attempt to refashion federal agencies into the finance engines that would transform the U.S. energy sector to a renewable, Net Zero future.
The Treasury Department's database suggests that after Congress passed the unprecedented funding to fight climate change, it looked for outfits that could disperse that money at the state and local level. In response, it turned to many organizations in the public and private sector with no track record for handling such vast sums, as well as state energy offices and agencies.
"Biden-era climate policy sometimes prioritized sending money out the door first, and worrying about logistics and oversight second," said Jeremy Portnoy, an investigator with OpenTheBooks who seeks to make all government spending public. "Money went to groups that were receiving grants larger than they had the capability to manage."
Do you see a pattern? Democrats take the same strategy with Medicare and Medicaid. They firehose out money to their criminal supporters and strip away all checks and steps for verification.
...In response to Trump's efforts to halt much of the spending, a coalition of 13 Democratic state attorneys general filed suit in February seeking to have all the approved grant money dispensed. They argued the Trump administration unfairly targeted states controlled by Democrats, and that without the money those states' "ambitious climate goals" may not be reached.
"Since the first day of President Donald J. Trump's second term, his Administration set out to reverse and undermine the historic energy and infrastructure funding measures enacted by Congress in the preceding years," according to the lawsuit.
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The legal challenges have scored some successes; last month the Energy Department agreed to reinstate 11 grants, although the largest of them remain in limbo.
Three Huge Beneficiaries
While most states received some portion of the climate splurge, RCI's analysis focused on three of the biggest beneficiaries: Colorado, California, and New York, which were poised to receive more than $1 billion.
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Border Dividend: Reductions In the Number of Foreign Students Requiring English-Learning Reduces the Cost of Education in Texas and Florida By Nearly $1 Billion in a Single Year
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Well, between $835 million to $890 million.
A border enforcement dividend we can all share.
Declines in the number of English-learning students enrolled in Florida and Texas public schools during the 2025--26 school year were associated with an estimated $835 million to $890 million reduction in education funding across the two states, according to an American Accountability Foundation report obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.The July 23 memorandum, issued by Thomas Jones of the American Accountability Foundation and addressed to the Republican Governors Association, attributes the enrollment changes to the Trump administration's immigration-enforcement policies following several years of increases under former President Joe Biden.
"In Florida the news is good; in Texas, where the drop far outpaced the overall enrollment trend, the news is great," the report states.
Florida classifies students actively receiving English-language-learner instruction under the designation "LY." That population increased from 277,473 during the 2021--22 school year to 368,068 in 2024--25, an increase of 90,595 students, or 32.7 percent.
During 2025--26, however, the number fell by 23,641 students to 344,427, representing a 6.4 percent decline and the first decrease in the period examined by AAF.
AAF said the number of students entering post-exit monitoring continued to rise, which it argued showed that students were "not dropping out mid-program" and that the decline instead reflected fewer new English learners entering Florida schools.
The Florida Education Finance Program funds English-learning students through an English for Speakers of Other Languages cost factor of 1.165, or 16.5 percent above the base amount. Using a Base Student Allocation of $5,372.60, AAF calculated average total funding of approximately $9,122.93 per student during 2025--26.
Texas saw a similar Border Enforcement Dividend.
"The data is clear -- ending Biden's open borders leads to a lower burden on education budgets," AAF concluded. "Put more simply, supporting the President's border-enforcement and deportation policies means more funding for your local schools -- nearly one billion dollars in these two states alone, in a single year."
What are you going to buy with your Border Enforcement Dividend?
Department of Education Ends Use of "Disparate Impact Analysis" to Conjure Up Phantom Cases of "Racism"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The left needs far more racism than actually exists, so they've created many tools to increase that supply. Not just the SPLC funding LARP white supremacists.
The left always needs grievances and they need a mechanism for using grievances to extort money and privileges from the rest of society. Crying "racism" over everything is a good mechanism.
But sometimes you need proof of racism, as in legal and quasi-legal procedures. But there is actually no racism present -- no one expressed any racist thoughts nor actually discriminated against anyone.
"Disparate impact analysis" was created to "prove" the existence of racism in the stubborn absence of any detectable racism. Instead of finding racism, the left needs only find that a law or prerequisite has a "disparate impact" on protected minorities. and then the system infers racism from the simple, non-racist fact that there are fewer black people in, say, science or tech.
If there are any requirements that serve as roadblocks to getting blacks into science or tech -- like the requirement of an actual degree in science or tech -- then that roadblock will have to be removed because of the "disparate impact" on blacks.
Trump's DOE is finally ditching the use of this fake metric to prove racism where none exits.
Education Dept. eliminates tool used to prove racial discrimination Civil rights complaints against schools can no longer use data evaluations, called disparate impact analysis, as evidence of discrimination.The Education Department on Thursday killed decades-old rules that have allowed statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial discrimination, the most recent move by the Trump administration to overhaul the government's enforcement of civil rights law.
The move follows years of conservative complaints about "disparate impact analysis," which incorporates use of data to show discrimination. Supporters say that discrimination is not always explicit and that data analysis is needed to uncover it.
Conservatives say that proving discrimination should require proof that someone intended to treat people differently and argue that when people are being judged by data, they feel pressure to make decisions based on racial quotas.
At the Education Department, disparate impact analysis has been used in recent years to evaluate allegations that students of color were discriminated against by examining data showing they were disciplined at higher rates than White students.
Oh, that is a cherished tool for confabulating "Racism" -- just assert, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that blacks do not misbehave or commit crimes at a level greater than that of other races and therefore, any disparity in arrests or discipline of blacks must be due to racism. Because what else is left? We ruled out any possibility that blacks commit crimes or misbehave at elevated rates. Therefore: Racism. Q.E.D.
The Education Department said Thursday that eliminating the data analysis will assure that schools can address discipline problems without fear of drawing a federal investigation. "The left's notion of 'equity' should never prevent teachers from keeping their classrooms and students safe. With these changes, schools will be empowered to address classroom issues without fearing the federal government will weaponize antidiscrimination laws," Kimberly Richey, assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement.The change was made without an opportunity for public comment, which is unusual for major regulatory action. The rules were announced on Thursday and took effect immediately.
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Supporters of disparate impact analysis say it is a critical tool because finding "smoking gun" evidence to prove someone intended to discriminate is difficult. And even if the intent wasn't to discriminate, advocates say institutions should be held accountable for discriminatory effects.
It's difficult to prove "racism" in most instances because racism is not present in most instances.
And so we have to create a fake proxy definition of racism to find the racism that does not exist and can be shown to not exist by the complete lack of evidence for it.
Since the twin calamities of the election of Barack Obama and the death of a drug-dealing pig named George Floyd, schools and police have actually been avoiding arresting/disciplining black people.
In the UK, cops were advised not to arrest violet BLM or BAME (Black, "Asian" (meaning Muslim), Minority, or Ethnic) "protesters" for fear of triggering even more violence.
Police were warned against arresting violent BLM protesters who assaulted officers or caused criminal damage to avoid "triggering" them, a leaked document reveals.An internal police risk assessment published during the Black Lives Matter protests of June 2020 warned officers of potential "trigger points" that might cause crowds to riot.
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In the summer of 2020, dozens of police officers were assaulted by BLM activists across Britain, including some 62 in London alone.
According to a 2024 report by Lord Walney, the Government's independent adviser on political violence and disruption, officers were "kicked to the ground" and pelted with bottles and other missiles.
However, during the riots, police were told to "be mindful of possible increased tensions when interacting with the BAME community", and warned against arresting violent agitators.
This obviously goes on all the time in America. Rioters in Baltimore were given "space to destroy." Blue city majors continue taking no action whatsoever to stop violent trespasses during "teen takeovers," attempting to normalize rioting as something people will just have to accept as routine, like changes in the weather.
Columnist Warns That the Constant Anti-Marriage Agitation from the Communist/Nihilist/Anti-Natalist Left is Leaving Women Lonely, Sad, and Bitter
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Since the 1920s, it has been the goal of communists to destabilize western societies and immiserate them so that the public would accept the idea of burning it all down and letting the bloody-minded lunatics of the left further degrade and destroy civilization.
Communists realized the "workers' were just too satisfied in western capitalist societies to support communism.
So they set about changing that.
A growing anti-marriage movement is being fueled by viral TikTok trends and high-profile celebrities painting men as the enemy, but according to a new column, women may ultimately be the ones losing out.In a USA Today op-ed, columnist Ingrid Jacques warned of a rising wave of "heteropessimism," defining it as women's growing feelings of disappointment and antagonism toward relationships with men. She argued that viral trends like "divorce glow-ups" and anti-male literature have actively widened the divide between the sexes.
"Studies show that married women are not only happier but also live longer and earn more than their single counterparts," Jacques wrote on Tuesday.
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The trend coincides with falling US marriage and birth rates. Official US Census Bureau data from December shows that just 47% of American households in 2025 were married couples, down from nearly 66% 50 years ago.Of those married households, only 37% included their own children under age 18, compared to 54% in 1975.
Jacques linked the shift directly to liberal ideology, noting that left-leaning Americans choose to opt out of traditional family lifestyles "far more often than conservatives."
"Wherever you look these days, women who 'free' themselves from the chains of marriage are being celebrated," Jacques wrote.
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A 2024 American Family Survey found that 37% of conservative women and 28% of moderate women, between the ages of 18 and 40, reported being "completely satisfied" with their lives.
However, liberal women of the same age reported only 12% feeling the same way.
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Citing Louise Perry, author of "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution," Jacques argued that young women are being alienated after getting "burned by hookup culture" and lacking real friendships with the opposite sex.
Jacques argued that, like Perry, returning to marriage, not abandoning men altogether, is the remedy for the cultural divide.
"That won't be true for everyone, of course," Jacques concluded. "But men and women need to find a way back to each other. Discounting marriage won't get them there."
If you really want to destroy civilization in a hurry, go to the very heart of the human experience -- family and mating -- and destroy that.
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Elon Musk Demolishes Snarky Superior Editor of The Economist
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The extremist didn't like being told that she's the actual extremist.
Elon Musk sat down with The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and boy, did she get more than what she was asking for. If she thought she could lob a bunch of accusations against him, and he'd just take it sitting down.He didn't.
Instead, Beddoes got schooled, and the internet is still talking about it.
The interview covered plenty of ground, but two exchanges stood out as the moments Musk completely dismantled Beddoes' entire premise.
The first came when she tried to paint Musk as a supporter of Europe's "far right."
"You support not just the populist right, but the far right, in fact, very fringe parties in some countries," Beddoes said.
Musk wasn't having it.
"No, I support the normal people -- what do you call the far right, falsely," Musk said.
Beddoes pressed on, asking if Musk really believed those parties represented normal people. Musk's response exposed exactly how the media manufactures its labels.
"Yes, literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years, and these policies were completely normal," Musk said. "One of the tricks that I think is funny is to take a speech from Obama and Hillary, and then go to someone who's sort of on the sort of what I call the lunatic left, and say, 'What do you think of the speech by Trump?' They're like, 'Oh wow, he's the worst person ever.' 'Actually, that was a speech by Obama,' or 'Actually, that was a speech by Hillary.' Literally."
Beddoes tried to pivot, insisting she wasn't talking about the Democrat Party's leftward lurch but about specific figures like Rupert Lowe. Musk shut that down, too, laying out exactly what "far right" actually means to people like Beddoes.
"It's actually just normal people. And here are the principles -- tell me which of these sound terrible: That we should have secure borders? That we should have safe cities? That we should have sensible spending?" Musk asked. "Which of those three are far right fringe? I would like to just admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the far right. It is false and misleading and nonsense."
Phil Trubey @PTrubey...
And then came the oh-so-typical, increasingly tiresome part of most long journalist interviews: the interviewer constructs a straw-man version of Elon and argues against it. Elon carefully explained that he isn't a raging far-right extremist, racist Nazi who kills puppies ... and the journalist still didn't believe it. It is so effing tiresome.
The lack of self-awareness on the part of journalists is off the charts. She complained about Elon's supposed misperception of how dangerous London is, while remaining oblivious to the role she plays in creating the giant misperception of Elon as a person in her own writing.
Elon defended his political views, saying he is for secure borders, locking up criminals, and balanced government spending, something even she had to admit didn't sound crazy.
And... that's about it for an 85-minute interview. I couldn't help but think that the next long-form interview Elon does should be conducted by an AI.
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Fugitive Fraudster Arrested
And Nick Shirley Probes Another Huge Area for Fraud, Durable Medical Equipment
—Disinformation Expert Ace
If Team Trump's anti-fraud efforts sometimes look a bit all-over-the-map, that's because the map is so incredibly large.The feds spend over $7 billion a year, and fraudsters look to cash in on every dime; with Vice President JD Vance on point, the White House has organized a full-court press to fight back.
One day this week, the Justice Department announced it had finally nabbed a fugitive Medicare fraudster on the lam since 2022, who allegedly stole more than half a billion dollars, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare-Medicaid czar Dr. Mehmet Oz froze over $1 billion in funding to California and Minnesota over apparent Medicaid fraud.
About the same time, Scott Bessent's Treasury stopped $100 million in tax money going to dead people thanks to new verification procedures, while the IRS chief revealed that a recent scrub of the Social Security Number database found that one in 10 recipients were erroneously listed.
That follows recent news of blatant adult-day-care scams in Queens and a drive to claw back $1 billion in COVID-era unemployment fraud that may still be nabbing $2 million a day in New York.
Last month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced charges against 455 people for $6.5 billion in health-care fraud.
All this is robbery of the taxpayers and of the folks these government programs are supposed to help: That should outrage Republicans and Democrats alike.
And politicians of both parties should be embarrassed that the crackdowns are only coming now, years after fraudsters notoriously made off with tens or even hundreds of billions in COVID-relief monies.
Yes, some of the crackdown relies on new technology: Kennedy touted the use of AI, advanced analytics and "other cutting-edge tools" to ID suspicious Medicaid outlays.
But much of it is just what Alexander Hamilton called "energy in the executive," meaning leadership from President Donald Trump and his top people.
That's a really good point and very true.
For example, the FBI created a Most Wanted Fraudsters list, which has now nabbed three major suspects: Khalid Satary, the one captured this week, plus Herbert Kimble, who allegedly stole $1.2 billion in a Medicare telemedicine scheme, and Said Abdullahi Ereg, accused of fraud totaling $4.2 million in a child-nutrition program.
Nick Shirley is now discovering another avenue of massive medical fraud, this one involving durable medical equipment, stuff like wheelchairs and CPAP machines and equipment like that which is supposed to last for months or years.
It's a similar scam to all the others: "Enrolling" phantom patients up for supplies, billing the government for those supplies, and then, who knows, putting the equipment in a warehouse or more likely selling it on the street for pennies on the dollar.
This wouldn't work... if anyone bothered checking these businesses and confirming that these were real patients. But they don't, because Democrats enable the fraud deliberately. It's how they fund their supporters who in turn donate back to Democrats and put money in bums' pockets for mail-in illegal "votes."
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THE MORNING RANT: Some Fools Never Learn – Ford & VW Prepare to Roll Out New Small Electric Pickups
—Buck Throckmorton
There are three new small pickup trucks about to roll out. That is great news. They’re all going to be electric. That is bad news.
In my circle of guy friends who came of age in the 1980s, we all seemed to have had a Chevrolet S10, Nissan Hardbody, or Ford Courier / Ranger pickup at some point. We’ve also lamented the lack of small pickup trucks in recent years.
Without getting into the weeds as to why, small pickup trucks with good gas mileage were effectively outlawed by the government’s environmental regulators. Why? Because they’re idiots large trucks were exempt from the automobile corporate fuel standards, but small trucks weren’t. Fortunately, Donald Trump, Lee Zeldin, and Congress’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act combined to kill off all the old mandates.
Auto manufacturers are finally free to build the small pickup trucks that had effectively been banned for decades. And they’re doing just that! Except, they’re going to be electric.
Electric vehicles have been a catastrophic failure for VW and Ford, costing tens of billions of dollars and not ever achieving more than nominal sales before they killed their flagship EVs, the Volkswagen ID.4 and Ford F150 Conflagration Lightning respectively. In fact, Ford and VW both built all-new plants in Tennessee just for their EVs, which were expected to sell hundreds of thousands of units per year. Those plants are now producing zero EVs.
Ford and VW triumphantly rolling out another wave of EVs is as preposterous as Bud Light rolling out another ad campaign with Dylan Mulvaney. But here we are.
First, Volkswagen bought the name “Scout,” which was International (Harvester’s) famous mid-century pickup. What the Scout was not was electric. No matter, VW is building yet another all-new plant in the U.S., this one in South Carolina, with plans to produce up 200,000 electric Scouts per year. From Car and Driver:
Just a few years after announcing its ambitious intention to revive the Scout brand—once owned by the International Harvester Company—VW has issued proof of concept in the form of the 2028 Scout Terra EV pickup. Debuting alongside its Scout Traveler SUV sibling…the Terra is poised to be an amalgam of modern and traditional styling and engineering themes. For instance, it’s built on a classic truck-style body-on-frame blueprint with a crew cab and 5.5-foot bed, but it uses a modern battery-electric powertrain that’s good for an estimated 350 miles of range.
In other words, with 350 miles of range, this Scout pickup truck cannot do what the small pickups of my youth did, drive from Central Texas to South Padre on a whim, with only one 5-minute refueling stop. Nor could it drive out to New Mexico for a ski trip, etc. Like all other EVs, the Scout will be a novelty that is only good for running around town.
As for Ford, it has recently launched the small Maverick pickup truck, which is gasoline-powered and a huge sales success. Perhaps Ford thinks its new EV pickup will be a popular lineup addition. Ford’s EV history indicates otherwise.
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The Morning Report — 7/ 24 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good Morning kids.
With everything going on across the country and around the world today, and as you can see from the breadth and depth of the links this morning, there's a metric shit-ton of meshugas to deal with and unpack. Despite that this item just ticks me the hell off.
There Are No Ag ‘Jobs Americans Won’t Do’ If They Earn A Living Wage
It's not so much the meat of the essay itself which I agree with .. .
Whenever Republicans talk about immigration enforcement, amnesty supporters chant the same tired line: What about picking crops? What about meat processing? Those are necessary jobs that Americans simply refuse to do. That argument was used to justify dozens of House Republicans’ latest mass amnesty effort. Their proposal would give illegal alien agriculture workers a pathway to legal status through the H-2A program, even though they have broken multiple laws by being in the United States illegally and getting a job without a work permit. Their employer has also violated the law by hiring these illegals.
Indeed, so Psaki-Psircling back to that headline, it's this insane completely Commie Leftist garbage of a so-called "Living wage." What a person is paid is or at least in a sane world is merely a reflection of the value of the job or task performed as dictated by market forces such as the skills required to perform them and the availability or lack thereof of the people required to perform them in bringing a product or service to market at a price the public can afford and that an employer can afford to pay to have them performed to stay in business and still remain profitable.
But as the author of this piece points out or at least hints at, is that it's the employers who have over the past several decades willingly employed legal and illegal aliens in order to keep their costs down and in doing so have done untold damage to the labor market and with it the societal dissolution that came with it as we are living through now. Beyond agriculture, whole industries, especially steel and automobile manufacturing and many others were off-shored deliberately so that corporate America can reap mass profits at the expense of the American worker and citizen, cheap mass-produced consumer goods notwithstanding. Forgetting the price tag for a moment, if wages across the board had parity with the cost-of-living in general would we really be paying that much more in real dollars if goods were produced here in America with American workers? Of course we still have to factor in the greed of the essentially Democrat-aligned labor unions as well as the mafia-like extortion of federal, state and local governments and their odious regulatory regimes that make everything that much more expensive. Yes, some sane and minimal degree of responsibility on the part of business is a necessary evil, but in the past that was the purview of the courts as well as enforced by a sense of moral responsibility of business owners not to kill or otherwise poison their neighbors and customers.
Yes rounding up and deporting as many of the illegals as possible is to be applauded, but disincentivizing them from coming here in the first place begins with those who hire them in the first place. So this done forcefully and continually will have a salutary effect and is something we've been screaming about for years, so bravo to the President for this. Stiff fines and prison sentences will do the trick.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director Todd Lyons said in an interview Sunday that his agency will crack down on American companies hiring unauthorized workers. “Not only are we focused on those individuals that are, you know, working here illegally, we’re focused on these American companies that are actually exploiting these laborers,” Lyons said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”“These people that came here for a better life. You know, either, you know, forced labor, child trafficking, you know, a lot of these work site cases — just isn’t a victimless crime of someone here working illegally,” he added. “And that’s why we’re going there with these criminal warrants to focus on these American businesses that are trying to make an extra dollar on the backs of these people that came here for a better life.”
Sadly we'll get just as much resistance from the GOP on this as we will from the Democrats, as is the gravamen of the aforementioned essay.
Pro-amnesty Republicans are allowing the agriculture industry to shut out American workers in favor of foreign migrants.
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Daily Tech News 24 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- AMD has announced its new Zen 6 Epyc server CPUs and we know, if anything, less about them than we did before the announcement. (WCCFTech)
Here's the problem: Zen 6 is strongly rumoured to increase the core count per chiplet from 8 to 12, and increase the L3 cache and X3D cache per chiplet by 50% to match. Which means that the raw numbers of cores and cache do nothing to confirm or deny the 12 core rumour. It doesn't help that the announced mainstream products focused on 96 core models which would have the same numbers whether that's twelve 8-core chiplets or eight 12-core chiplets.
Until you get all the way down to the bottom of the chart for Socket SP8 processors and find the 8-core Epyc with 48MB of cache which rather hints that 12 core chiplets are not a lie.
Oh, also supported (officially) are PCIe Gen 6 - probably for servers only, and 12.8GHz MRDIMMs - also probably for servers only. And up to 16 memory channels per socket, which at 12.8GHz delivers close to three times the bandwidth of Epyc Zen 5.
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Thursday 7/23/26 ONT in the Doghouse [Hour of the Wolf]
—Open Blogger
Source: Charles M. Schulz Museum
I got a little snoopy earlier today, so tonight I'm in the doghouse. Anyone care to join me? Fly in a Fokker Triplane for a dogfight?
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Thursday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Anskar Lenzen
Mother shepherd inspecting her puppies.
Baby guinea pig has something to say.
Rescue toucan. He's a real froot loop.
Dog and duck are farm friends.
Dog and duck are more than friends.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Crime fell 18% last year, on its way to a historic low.
Crime rates are on the decline in U.S. cities with the national homicide rate falling by 18%, inching closer to a historic low, the Council on Criminal Justice said Thursday.The Council on Criminal Justice released its mid-year report examining patterns for 13 types of crime in 36 U.S. cities. It found that nine of the 13 crimes were on the decline through mid 2026.
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Lopez, a senior research specialist for the Council on Criminal Justice, and Boxerman, a research scientist for the Regional Justice Information Service based in Missouri, added in their report that there is not a single explanation for the current crime trends.
Of course. The "experts" always say the same thing after a tough-on-crime policy succeeds: "There are too many variables to say what has caused this."
The national homicide rate increased by 30% from 2019 to 2020.
Of the nine types of crime that declined in the first half of the year, carjacking had the greatest decrease, falling by 47%.
Drug offenses have continued to rise, marking the biggest upward trend at 12%.
The Council on Criminal Justice projected that the end of 2025 homicide rate would likely be the lowest since 1900. It says its mid-year data "suggest" the homicide rate in 2026 will fall even further, "reaching a new historic low."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and failed former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg now lead among Democrat presidential primary voters in New Hampshire.This poll of 648 primary voters released on July 22 shows AOC at the top with 22 percent support. Buttigieg is right below her with 21 percent. Everyone else is in single digits.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) earns nine percent support. Failed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is at eight percent. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) earns just six percent. Former Vice President Kamala Harris is at five percent.
But, John Nolte says, national polling puts Kamala Harris out front:
In the national polling, according to the RealClearPolitics poll of polls, Kamala is in first place, up by 11.3 points over second-place Newsom (27.9 percent to 16.6 percent)....
Democrats are also captured entirely by an obsession with identity, and Kamala ticks off three of those vital boxes: She's black, she's a woman, and although no one will say so, she's a useful idiot.
This means that South Carolina is most likely to come first because it has a large black population.
The Democrat Party simply cannot afford to alienate black voters in 2028, especially black women. You can ask James Talarico about that.
One might speculate that whites are looking at Kamala Harris' actual performance, while blacks and black women especially are looking at the Racial Injustice of not nominating a black woman.
Democrats: Let's make every single aspect of culture, society, and politics relentlessly about race and "racial identity." What's the worse that can happen?
Iowa had traditionally been at the front of the line in assigning delegates (in caucuses, not a primary), but the Democrats decided the state was too white and too conservative to have such a prominent role anymore.Technically, New Hampshire was the first primary in 2024, but it awarded zero delegates anyway. South Carolina, which saved Joe Biden's bacon in 2020, was the first real primary that mattered. And in South Carolina, the black vote is king in the Democratic Party.
For the 2028 primary season, the Democrats are having an internal battle over the first-in-the-nation status, and it has devolved into some nasty racial politics, because of course it has. This is what Democratic Party voters live, breathe, and fight about, because the only way to overcome racism is to think about race every second of the day, and have nightmares about microaggressions at night.
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House Passes "Stop Insider Trading" Bill to Forbid Congressmen from Trading Individual Stocks (Using Insider Information);
Noted Lifelong Inside-Trader Nancy Pelosi Votes Against It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The bill would allow congresmen to own stocks as part of money markets or indexes -- big groups of stocks traded by managers without input from the customer.
They, and their families, will just be barred from buying and selling individual stocks, where a congressman could make a killing based on insider knowledge of coming government action that could boost, or crush, a specific company's valuation.
But congressmen have been permitted to use their insider information -- either granted to them by their position on a committee or tipped to them as a straight-up bribe by company officials seeking official favor -- for decades. That's why every other congressman is a millionaire in six years.
Except for when Congress starts modifying the bill by adding exceptions.
House passes 'Stop Insider Trading Act' in bipartisan voteDemocrats who opposed the legislation argued that the bill does not go far enough because it prohibits members of Congress and their families from buying new individual stocks, but it doesn't prevent them from owning them.
The House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday passed the "Stop Insider Trading Act," which bans lawmakers and their families from trading individual stocks.
The bill passed in a 232-198 vote, with 13 Democrats supporting the legislation. A similar bill is in the Senate.
Democrats who opposed the bill argued that it does not go far enough because it prohibits members of Congress and their families from buying new individual stocks, but it doesn't prevent them from owning them.
"For too long, Americans struggling to make ends meet have watched as lawmakers have entered office just to leave as multi-millionaires," House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement. "This type of behavior is unacceptable and diminishes the American people's trust in this institution.
Nancy Pelosi has been a virulent opponent of such a ban in the past. That's because she's become one of the richest women of the country while "serving" in Congress.
The Democrats voted against this bill with the pretextual excuse "we want the bill to go farther" but one suspects they don't want the bill at all. Democrats have shown that they go into politics to plunder money from the public.
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Amazing: Female USA "Sports" Columnist and Woke Karen Argues That Caitlin Clark Should Accept Being Fouled by Black Lesbians Because If She Complains She's Putting Black LGBTs in Danger
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This nasty Karen claims that Caitlin Clark is "flopping" -- pretending to have been hurt when another player fouls her, or she wants a ref to call a foul on the player that collided with her.
And she says that Caitlin's flopping is a Matter of National Concern, because Caitlin Collins' alleged flopping is "putting the lives of blacks and queers in danger."
She doesn't mention, at all, Clark being the target of unnecessarily rough "you don't belong here white girl" fouls. She pretends those away. She just claims that Caitlin Clark's "flopping" is different from the flopping of all other women in the WNBA -- or the "men" playing in the World Cup, who flop on the ground and start twitching if you even breather in their direction -- because her white tears might, hypothetically, provoke a hypothetical white supremacist to avenge her.
Oh, and she brings up racial martyr Emmet Till, killed seventy years ago, as the reason that Caitlin Clark has to take her Physical Reparations like a good girl and shut up about it.
Otherwise, it's Selma all over again.
Here's a couple of passages from this Woke White Savoir Sermon:
USA Today writer invokes Emmett Till, says Caitlin Clark puts Black and queer players 'in danger' by flopping Nancy Armour's column argues Clark's reactions to officiating fuel racist harassment of opponentsBy Dan Zaksheske
USA Today columnist Nancy Armour wants Caitlin Clark to stop flopping and berating WNBA officials.
Plenty of people agree with that take, including OutKick's Dan Dakich.
Others would argue that Clark's frustration is understandable, given the physical treatment she has received and the WNBA's inconsistent officiating. Either way, Armour is well within her rights to criticize Clark's behavior on the court.
But Armour's latest column goes much further than that. Much, much further, as she invoked the murder of Emmett Till to try and make a point.
Armour argues that Clark's reactions to missed calls put "Black" and "queer" WNBA players "in danger," essentially blaming Clark for alleged racist messages sent by people she doesn't know and has publicly condemned.
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Armour is using disputed basketball plays to push a left-wing narrative about "Black and queer" women in the WNBA.
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And this isn't the first time Armour has worked backward to make Clark the problem.
After DiJonai Carrington poked Clark in the eye during the 2024 playoffs, leaving Clark with a black eye, Armour wrote that Clark needed to "call out the toxic segment of her fan base." Both Clark and Carrington said the contact was not intentional, but Clark was the player left with a black eye. Yet Armour decided Carrington was the victim and Clark was the perpetrator.
What Nancy Armour didn't write about
Now, let's contrast those incidents with what Armour didn't feel the need to write a column about.
Last month, Alyssa Thomas drove her fist to Clark's throat during a game between the Fever and Mercury. Officials didn't call a foul, but the WNBA reviewed the play afterward, assessed Thomas a Flagrant 2 and suspended her for one game for "recklessly making contact" with Clark's throat area.
Armour doesn't appear to have written a single word about that, at least not that I could find.
There was no demand from Armour that Thomas consider the wider consequences of her behavior. No lecture about how her actions might inflame an already toxic situation involving the league's most visible player.
But a troll sent Gray a nasty message after a different game, and Armour suddenly had enough concern about player safety to write an entire column blaming Clark.
There are people who treat words on the internet as equal to physical violence, if not worse. Armour's coverage certainly suggests she belongs in that group. Thomas struck Clark in the throat. Stokes kneed Clark in the quad. Carrington poked Clark in the eye. Chennedy Carter hip-checked Clark when her back was turned. The list goes on.
Yet, Armour casts Clark as the dangerous person.
Clark is the one constantly subjected to excessive physicality from other WNBA players, and Armour still finds a way to make the aftermath her responsibility. When someone else receives an ugly message online, Clark gets blamed for that, too.
No matter what happens, Armour arrives at the same conclusion: Caitlin Clark is the problem.
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But if you think Armour had already taken this argument too far, we've got some bad news.
She wasn't done.
Armour then invoked Emmett Till.
Again, not satire.
"The WNBA's All-Star Game this weekend is in Chicago, Emmett Till's hometown, and a local art gallery is currently hosting an exhibit imagining his life if he hadn't been lynched. While it's incumbent on the WNBA to do more to protect its players, there also should be an expectation on Clark to recognize the wider consequences of her actions," Armour wrote.
Wow.
By invoking Till, Armour invites readers to connect Clark complaining about disputed foul calls to the history of false accusations by white women leading to violence against Black people.
Clark didn't falsely accuse Gray or Stokes of committing a crime. She certainly didn't ask anyone to harm them.
She complained about the referees during a basketball game.
Not only that, Armour doesn't identify a single incident in which a Black or "queer" WNBA player was physically assaulted by a stranger because of something Caitlin Clark said or did.
Her alleged danger is entirely hypothetical.
...Meanwhile, some of the most serious, documented off-court safety incidents in women's basketball have involved Clark, Sophie Cunningham and Paige Bueckers. Men have been arrested and charged with stalking all three players.
Clark's stalker traveled to Indianapolis and sent her hundreds of threatening and sexually explicit messages. Paige Bueckers' stalker flew across the country with an engagement ring and lingerie because he believed he was going to marry her. Earlier this year, another man was charged with stalking Cunningham after allegedly sending threatening messages and delivering a package to Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
All three players are White.
Those cases don't prove that only white players face danger. They do show how backwards Armour's argument is. She has no documented example of Clark's behavior causing someone to physically attack a Black or "queer" player, yet she invokes Emmett Till while portraying Clark as a threat to their safety.
The actual arrests tell a very different story.
But Armour isn't following the evidence. She's forcing Clark into a racial and political narrative that has little to do with what actually happens on the court.
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That is exactly what NBA Commissioner Adam Silver recently criticized when he said it was "incredibly unfair" that Clark had become a political football when she simply wants to focus on basketball.
Armour's column proves his point.
A discussion about Clark flopping and mistreating officials turns into an argument about white nationalism, American racial violence, queer identity and Emmett Till. Talk about hitting every left-wing talking point and even throwing in a few extras.
...That is exactly what NBA Commissioner Adam Silver recently criticized when he said it was "incredibly unfair" that Clark had become a political football when she simply wants to focus on basketball.
Armour's column proves his point.
A discussion about Clark flopping and mistreating officials turns into an argument about white nationalism, American racial violence, queer identity and Emmett Till. Talk about hitting every left-wing talking point and even throwing in a few extras.
This woke white bitch got dragged online, and protected her tweets. (Which will become grist for her next "sports" column, When White Supremacy Came for Me.
Per TMZ, she's doubled down since then:
"In my recent column, I made an inartful comparison with the murder of Emmett Till," she wrote. "I intended to connect the issues the WNBA is currently facing with its All-Star Game being hosted in Till's hometown of Chicago. I obviously did not provide enough context for that."
Then she doubled down.
"However, this point stands: There is a history in this country of perceived threats to white women being weaponized against African-Americans, and the danger that poses to Black players in the league. Players have been abused online and have reported receiving death threats. That has to be taken more seriously."
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CIA Report: Air Power Alone Can't Win Wars
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I've been saying this since day one.
Since WWII, air power theorists have promised a victory from the skies alone. It's never happened. (You can say "Japan" but that was an atomic bomb, and there was an ongoing ground and sea war going on at the same time, and the promise of a land invasion of the home islands.)
Technology is always advancing so there is often a plausible argument for why a victory through the skies is possible now -- the B-52 can drop more bombs than any aircraft ever imagined, cruise missiles can hit a specific window of a building, etc. -- but it's never once panned out.
Ukraine is proving you can fight the Russian army and navy to a standstill -- or better -- with air power, specifically, drone power. But drones are fairly short-range. I'd love a drone invasion of Iran, but those drones would have to be launched and serviced from inside Iran, or at least right on the border.
So what is the endgame here? I don't think it's going to be an actual victory.
It might just be the unsatisfying situation after the Gulf War, when Saddam remained in power and remained belligerent but the US just kept up a regime of "maintenance bombing," as one guy put it, for years and years.
But an actual victory? Not likely.
Report: CIA Says Iran Won't Yield to US Strikes
The CIA are a bunch of paper-pushing failed-academic clowns but I think they're basically right.
A new CIA report indicates that U.S. military strikes are unlikely to change Iran's negotiating stance with the Trump administration.U.S. military strikes won't significantly alter Iran's negotiating stance, according to a new CIA report.
A new U.S. intelligence assessment, first reported by The Washington Post, concludes that despite days of sustained U.S. airstrikes, Tehran is unlikely to soften its position or make major concessions in negotiations with the Trump administration.
According to current and former U.S. officials cited by the newspaper, CIA analysts believe the United States and Iran remain locked in an uneasy cycle of conflict that falls somewhere between war and peace, with neither side showing signs of backing down.
The assessment has reportedly been briefed to the Trump administration as U.S. forces continue retaliatory operations following renewed Iranian attacks in the Middle East.
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Despite the military pressure, intelligence officials reportedly believe Iran's leadership remains focused on preserving the regime and is prepared to absorb significant losses rather than accept U.S. demands....
"They continue to send signals that they want to talk, that they want to negotiate, but their behavior is what we're responding to," Rubio recently said, noting Iran has continued launching missiles and drones at ships in the region.
But that's all nonsense. It's just the "Muslim way of war" -- attack attack attack, and then call for phony "peace talks" while you re-arm and plan your next attack. "Negotiations" just mean "give Iran time to procure new Chinese missiles and build more drones."
We could maybe kill enough Iranian regime thugs that eventually there are too few of them to control the country, but that will take years.
The likely path to victory -- excluding a ground invasion, which seems politically impossible -- will come after a year of bombing so devastating the economy completely collapses and the public is willing to wade into heavy machine-gun fire because they're starving and rip the Muslim conquerors to pieces.
And I don't know if we have any other choice than that grim endgame.
In very expected bad news, oil is over $100 per barrel again.
Global oil prices on Thursday crossed $100 a barrel for the first time since May, after Houthi militants in Yemen claimed to have struck two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea.The reported attack, which came alongside continued strikes between the United States and Iran, threatened to worsen an oil shock that had already amounted to one of the largest in history.
Trump threatens to attack Iran every time its proxy army in Yemen attacks ships, but I don't think that's much of a threat, because he's already attacking Iran.
The jihadists of Iran plan to fight until the last dead civilian.
Below: The US Marines rappelled down to the deck of an Iranian shadow tanker and seized it.
Everyone understand a machine-gun pointed right at your head.
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Ethiopian Migrant Culturally Enriches Three American Citizens In, Get This, Minnesota
—Disinformation Expert Ace
But I'm sure he was an engineer or doctor or scientist developing a cure for cancer. So the three senseless, barbaric murders he committed are balanced out.
This "migrant" could not convince the government to let him bring his family over from Ethiopia. He decided that he was being discriminated against because he was black and an immigrant, which is exactly the murderous grievance instilled in him by the American left.
Suspect charged with killing three people in St. Paul apartment leasing officeCharges filed against the man accused of fatally shooting three people in St. Paul on Monday allege he opened fire on the apartment management company employees after being told he could not cancel his garage parking contract.
Tsegaab Ademassu Binessu, 30, was charged Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court with three counts of second-degree murder.
He's accused of killing Nansi G. Fuentes Zambrano, 25, of Inver Grove Heights; Dena M. Silcox, 56, of St. Paul; and Adam J. Wilwerding, 43, of Oakdale. They were fatally shot inside an apartment complex leasing office on St. Paul Avenue on Monday afternoon.
The charges state that the shooting was captured on surveillance video and claim that Binessu also confessed to his roommate. Court documents allege that Binessu "executed" the three victims.
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Binessu's longtime roommate reportedly called police and said Binessu had confessed to the shooting. He said Binessu had quit his trucking job and planned on enlisting in the Navy -- and that he had just sold his vehicle.
"The roommate thought Binessu planned to speak with apartment management about cancelling his $65/month parking garage contract because he had sold his car," the complaint states. "The roommate spoke to Binessu hours later. Binessu said he had argued with apartment management and ended up killing three people."
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The shooting happened a short time later. The complaint alleges that surveillance video shows Binessu shooting each of the victims multiple times.
The complaint states that he was arrested Monday night on the Iron Range, driving the car of one of the victims.
Binessu allegedly told investigators "he hated the American system," the complaint states. "Binessu complained of unsuccessfully trying to bring his wife and children from Ethiopia for seven years. Binessu said the prolonged immigration process contributed to his divorce and separation from his children."
He also reportedly complained that apartment management would not help him, and that he believed he was "treated unfairly because he is Black and an immigrant."
As Black Conservative Perspective wonders: How long until Tim Walz pardons him?
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One of JD Vance's Secret Service Agents Is Under Investigation for Leaking "Sensitive" Information
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Just filled with rotten apples, one after another.
A member of Vice President JD Vance's Secret Service detail is under investigation for allegedly leaking sensitive information, the agency confirmed Thursday.The administrative investigation could become a criminal inquiry, Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service's chief of communications, said, according to CBS News.
"While we will not comment on the specifics of this matter, one principle is unequivocal: any conduct that potentially threatens the safety of a protectee will not be tolerated," Gugliemi said.
The allegations, according to Gugliemi, involve compromising operational and information security. Gugliemi didn't provide specific allegations, nor did he name the person under suspicion.
The agent is on administrative leave as the government conducts both administrative and criminal investigations.
This follows last week's story that the White House teleprompter operator had made $100,000 making political bets on Kalshi, based, assumedly, on inside information about what Trump would be talking about before he actually said it.
President Donald Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on more than a dozen of Trump's speeches on the prediction market Kalshi, federal investigators with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the president who has been operating Trump's teleprompter since 2016, is in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations he used his inside knowledge of the president's speeches to win more than $100,000, the sources said.
According to the sources, Kalshi alerted its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to the suspicious activity on its "Mentions" market, where users can bet on whether specific words, phrases or topics are uttered during a public speech.
"Our surveillance team promptly flagged and referred these trades to the CFTC, and we are cooperating and assisting regulators," Kalshi's head of enforcement, Bobby DeNault, said in a statement provided to ABC News.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday afternoon, following ABC News' report, that Perez has been put on unpaid administrative leave. Leavitt said she spoke with President Trump about it, and he thought it was a "disgrace" and made the decision himself to put Perez on unpaid.
Jim Jordan Makes a Criminal Referral to the DOJ For Jack Smith's Perjury; Melania Presses Sanctions Against Democrat Media Party Hatchet Man Michael Wolff
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I know, I know: file it in the "Nothing Will Happen" folder.
The criminal referral is for his perjury in denying that he and his team had read the contents of congressmen's texts.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued a criminal referral against former Special Counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday for allegedly making "willfully and intentionally false statements" when testifying before Congress last December."The Committee on the Judiciary writes to refer strong evidence that appears to show Jack Smith, former Special Counsel, knowingly made false statements during his December 17, 2025 deposition," Jordan wrote in a letter sent to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
In the letter, Jordan questioned what Smith said under oath about obtaining phone records of 44 lawmakers who communicated with President Donald Trump and other members of the White House related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
"This information calls into question the completeness and accuracy of statements that Mr. Smith made under oath to the Committee regarding his team's access to the content of Members' text messages," Jordan wrote.
Jordan stated that responses by Smith during congressional testimony "gave the impression that neither Mr. Smith nor his team had access to the content of members' privileged text messages."
"We now know this to be false," Jordan wrote.
"His conduct can only be understood as an effort to thwart the Committee's inquiry by intentionally making false statements and representations before Congress. We therefore believe that sufficient evidence exists for DOJ to examine whether Mr. Smith's actions warrant a charge," the letter added.
Melania is meanwhile seeking judicial sanctions against Michael Wolff, a persistently unethical and loathsome gay gossip columnist posturing as a journalist.
Melania Trump files for sanctions against Michael Wolff over Epstein-linked allegations he madeHer legal team argued the first lady should be granted the sanctions because Wolff allegedly manufactured a jurisdictional dispute in an attempt to keep the case in New York state court, used litigation for improper purposes and made a "frivolous" claim.
First lady Melania Trump filed a motion for sanctions Tuesday against journalist Michael Wolff, after he tried to sue her to prevent her from suing him over allegedly defamatory statements he made regarding her and Jeffrey Epstein.
The first lady is now looking to recover costs and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred in Wolff's lawsuit, along with other appropriate relief, saying the lawsuit was "a fundraising drive and a political spectacle," according to Fox News.
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"Plaintiff and his counsel asserted a legally frivolous claim, propped it up with factual contentions that lacked any evidentiary support, and used them to run a political and commercial campaign," her team said in the filing. "They should pay for Mrs. Trump's fees and expenses incurred for the process they abused."
The legal team argued Wolff wrongly claimed the first lady was heavily involved in the Epstein scandal, despite her denying a friendship with the late convicted sex-offender and his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
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