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—Disinformation Expert Ace
Oregon
Ben Milbrath
Poor little dog just wants peace.
Pet squirrel is crying because wild squirrels stole her stored nuts.
After a long day of work, it's nice to come home.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A team of elite civil rights attorneys announced they will represent Karmelo Anthony in the appeal of his murder conviction for fatally stabbing fellow high school athlete Austin Metcalf.Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe, veteran appellate attorney Russell Wilson, civil rights lawyer Brooke Cluse from Ben Crump Law, and others have joined forces in an effort to overturn Anthony's conviction and 35-year prison sentence, CBS News reported.
They will conduct an independent review of the trial to determine whether any errors occurred during the trial in their pursuit of an appeal, the lawyers said in their announcement on Monday.
End Wokeness @EndWokeness15h
NY-13 nominee Daraliza Avila Chevalier is a founder of CUAD. The org's stated goal?
"Eradication of Western civilization"
The loathsome Dan Goldman lost his bid for reelection in NYC's 10th Congressional district to -- get this -- an anti-Jewish communist.
Greg Price @greg_price113h
Dan Goldman losing is truly hilarious because he has one of the most liberal voting records in Congress and is unapologetic about being willing to tell any incendiary lie about Republicans, but refused to pledge allegiance to third-world terrorists on the other side of the planet and was, therefore, not radical enough for the new Democrat base.
Also losing last night: Jack "Kennedy" Schlossberg, who I would call a nepo baby but don't you need an actual job to be a nepo baby? All this fag does is troll people online and appear on leftwing chat shows to embarrass his family. He's like an even less-accomplished Ron Reagan Jr.
Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon
Against all odds, Manhattan voters made the right call on Tuesday: They handily rejected Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old influencer with four trust funds and no actual employment history, in New York's 12th Congressional District.
Against all odds, Manhattan voters made the right call on Tuesday.Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old Kennedy scion who has never worked a real job, was handily defeated in the Democratic primary for New York's 12th Congressional District, sitting in third place with less than 11 percent of the vote. George Conway, the mentally disturbed Lincoln Project cofounder and frequent guest on The Jim Acosta Show, sat in fifth, trailing not just Schlossberg but also a woman named Nina Schwalbe.
Schlossberg's defeat is worth celebrating for several reasons.
The Kennedy family is a toxic cabal of bloated, boat-shoed sex pests and trust-fund layabouts still living off the fortune amassed by Joseph P. Kennedy, the wealthy patriarch best known for his efforts to make peace with Adolf Hitler. Tuesday's outcome suggests the family's once-mythic reputation is in the midst of a long-overdue correction.
John F. Kennedy, Schlossberg's grandfather, was the Eric Swalwell of the White House, while his great uncle Ted Kennedy was the Eric Swalwell of the U.S. Senate, a reputation he cemented in 1985 by making a "waitress sandwich" with Chris Dodd at a local fine-dining establishment.
To be fair to Swalwell, there's no evidence (that we know of) to suggest he's ever fled the scene of an accident after a woman drowned in his car. Ted Kennedy, on the other hand, continued to serve in public office until 2009, more than 40 years after Mary Jo Kopechne's death.
Days before the election, Schlossberg told the Wall Street Journal he would view his loss in the primary as proof that our political system is irrevocably broken. "If I can't do it, then nobody can," he said.
Indeed, if a 33-year-old Kennedy brat with four trust funds and what the New York Times described as "little traditional work experience" can lose a primary in one of the country's wealthiest congressional districts despite being endorsed by David Letterman and spending $1 million of his own inheritance, the American Dream is truly dead.
And of course ultra-cuck George Conway:
Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew
Kellyanne Conway served as Senior Counsel to President Trump in his first term, after having had a senior role in his campaign that went from 1% GOP support in July 2015 to winning the Presidency in November 2016.Her now ex-husband George Conway, once believing himself to be the best choice to serve as Solicitor General of the United States -- the DOJ Attorney responsible for arguments in front of the Supreme Court -- received the votes of 1 out of every 17 NY Dems who cast ballots for a new Representative in their district yesterday, finishing in 5th place.
He spent $6.65 million and received 1,050 fewer votes than 4th place finisher Nina Schwalbe.
She spent $457,000.
They both finished behind Jack Schlossberg, reported by many in the media to be mentally ill.
If Conway had won or come close, at least some Never Trumpers might have made it official and tried grifting as Democrats. But now that it's proven that no one likes a traitor, the NeverTrumpers will have no choice but continuing their grift of pretending to be "Republicans."
Here's what USAID money was actually paying for:
Catherine Herridge @C__HerridgeSTUNNING: USAID + THE BIG GRIFT
Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist.
Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the financial help via the State Dept. when he was actually a US citizen, born in Las Cruces New Mexico.
Aulaqi would later develop close ties with several 9/11 hijackers and attain leadership status in AQ's Yemen affiliate.
Aulaqi was the godfather of the digital jihad that leveraged his writings and the web to radicalize Americans to AQ's cause.
Aulaqi became the first American targeted for death by the CIA. In 2011, he was killed in a US drone strike.
This 1997 Aulaqi mugshot is for soliciting prostitutes.
Good catch first flagged Feb. 2025 via @browne_pamela
@intelwire
A San Francisco socialist politician took a three month "mental health leave" because she just can't even right now.
A lefty member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who abruptly went on leave at the end of March melted into tears as she explained to her constituents Tuesday why she needed the mental health break.Supervisor Jacqueline Fielder is set to return to work next Monday, after her absence earlier in the year fueled theories on what motivated the first-term lawmaker to go missing from City Hall meetings for weeks before checking herself in for treatment.
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In a Tuesday post on Instagram, Fielder said "I left the work I love so much not because I wanted to but because my mental health demanded it."
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She seemed to attribute her crisis to the pressures of being a politician."At the end of the day I'm a human being and a renter, a working class candidate that is now a supervisor," Fielder said, "but I was going 100 miles a hour since early 2023 when I started the campaign for supervisor, and being a grassroots candidate is a lot of elbow grease."
Her medical leave made her realize that she has colleagues and others who share the weight of representing the city with her, she said.
"I'm coming clear-eyed and grounded and eager to serve in this role again," said Fielder, who ended her note on encouraging others dealing with mental health issues to also seek help or take a leave.
Here's a short video of this lefty basketcase.
One of the many rioters in NYC after the Knicks' win dumped and then stole a trash can.
Turns out she is -- or was -- a DEI executive at JP Morgan.
A woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street then stealing it during New York City's Knicks championship parade was a director at JPMorgan Chase who was fired Tuesday over the incident, The Post has learned.
Angie Báez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile.
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Sources say the bank looked into the incident after the video surfaced and a JPMorgan Chase spokesperson told The Post, "This employee is no longer with the company."
Báez could not be reached by The Post for comment Tuesday. Sources noted she had attended the parade in her personal capacity.
I hate rioters, but I also understand that people with low IQ and poor impulse control can get "swept up" in them. I wouldn't be gleeful about her being fired except for the fact that, let's face it, she never should have had a job in the first place.
So nothing lost.
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Texas, DOJ Sign Joint Decree Declaring Biden's Prior "Backdoor Amnesty" to be Illegal and Void
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You of course know of the Democrats' favorite strategy of sue-and-settle, whereby a friendly third party is invited to sue the Democrat government. The Democrat government gives up the case and agrees to a "consent decree" resolving the issue -- and this resolution has the force of law, despite no legislature having ever voted for it.
Well, two can play at that game. Steven Miller's organization America First Legal joined with Texas to sue the DOJ over a Biden-era policy allowing immigration judges to put immigration cases on "administrative pause," forever. Biden allowed judges who would otherwise be required to deport illegal aliens to instead "pause" the case against them, effectively granting them amnesty (and even the "right to work").
Technically, they're still illegal aliens in the middle of deportation proceedings but the reality is that those proceedings are now "paused," forever. So every illegal alien getting his deportation "paused" is effectively granted backdoor amnesty that Congress never even contemplated, let alone voted to make law.
Texas and Steven Miller sued the DOJ over this blatant end-run around the actual law of the land and the DOJ said "Fair" and signed a consent decree admitting this was always illegal and now is forbidden.
Judge blocks Biden-era immigration rule hours after Texas AG and Stephen Miller's group sued DOJ
On Monday, Ken Paxton's office asked the judge to block the rule, a request the federal agency then agreed with. The suit echoes a similar move in 2025 that killed a 24-year-old state tuition law.
A federal judge in Texas blocked a Biden administration rule on Monday that allowed immigration judges to indefinitely close a deportation case against immigrants on the same day Texas sued to stop the rule.The rule, which was adopted in 2024, allowed immigration judges to close a deportation case after hearing arguments from the federal government and the immigrant in deportation proceedings, especially if the person could qualify for a benefit that allows them to stay in the country legally.
But on Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas in Wichita Falls to block the rule with U.S. Judge Reed O'Connor, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush.
The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice was also co-filed by America First Legal Foundation, an organization founded by Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Trump who has focused on ways to limit both legal and illegal immigration to the country. America First Legal Foundation also previously filed various lawsuits representing Paxton against the Biden administration's immigration policies, which helped derail President Biden's immigration agenda in his lone term.
In this latest complaint, Paxton's office said in the 43-page lawsuit that the Biden-era rule "effectively grant(s) indefinite amnesty to aliens illegally present in this country."
Lawsuits usually take several months to years to settle, but in this case O'Connor ruled late on Monday in favor of Texas after the Department of Justice filed its response saying it agreed with Paxton's office.
Before this lawless action by Biden, 130,000 cases were paused. After Biden gave his leftwing immigration judges permission to dole out personalized amnesty, the number of "paused" cases "skyrocketed" (as the judgment says) to 1.08 million. And then, a year later, it doubled again to 2.2 million.
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Feds Announce Arrests of 455 Defendants Responsible for $6.5 Billion in Fraud Looted from the American People
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Nick shirley @nickshirleyyJun 23
"The fraud is not real"
Today: 455 fraudsters charged, $6.5 billion exposed
*silent*
Society will never improve until people and the media can look at issues with a logical perspective of: Is this right or wrong to be happening?
EXPOSE IT ALL
Think of how many trillions have been stolen -- or allowed to be pilfered by Democrats.
National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in 455 Defendants Charged in Connection with Over $6.5 Billion in Alleged Fraud
The Justice Department today announced the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in charges against 455 defendants, including 90 doctors and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud and opioid abuse schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims and significant patient harm, including death.Today's Takedown represents a new era in federal, state, and international cooperation to combat health care fraud: cases in 56 federal districts and 45 U.S. states and territories, with 50 state Medicaid Fraud Control Units participating, the most in Department history.
In addition, unprecedented international cooperation over the two-week Takedown resulted in the apprehension and return to the United States of the following health care fraudsters: one defendant in Kyrenia in connection with an over $3.7 billion scheme; two defendants in Estonia in connection with a previously charged $10.6 billion scheme; and, in the Philippines, one of FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters in connection with a previously-charged $1.2 billion telemedicine fraud scheme.
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Today's coordinated enforcement action involves a whole-of-government approach, including:
* Actions by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to suspend 1,079 providers and revoke billing privileges for 1,403 providers.
* 48 Civil Monetary Payment settlements amounting to over $73 million, over 1,400 provider exclusions, and 25 actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General ("HHS-OIG") under the Civil Monetary Penalties Law seeking more than $10 billion in payments to the Medicare Trust Fund from payments that CMS caught and suspended before the funds were paid to the fraudulent providers.
* Civil charges against 13 defendants for $14.8 million in health care fraud schemes, as well as civil settlements with 31 defendants totaling $23 million.
* 928 administrative cases by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seeking the revocation of authority to handle and/or prescribe controlled substances since October 1, 2025.
Fake wound graft treatments were a big source of fraud:
Charges were filed against 11 defendants, including a company executive and eight medical professionals, across six districts in connection with billions of dollars in fraudulent claims for amniotic wound allografts. In the District of Arizona, the Vice President of Sales for a company that sold allografts was charged in a nationwide illegal kickback and health care fraud scheme. From approximately December 2021 through June 2024, providers billed Medicare over $4 billion for this company's allografts, resulting in over $2 billion in payments. This significant spike in allograft billings was alleged to have been driven not by medical necessity, but by a kickback scheme that generated substantial profit margins and lavish lifestyles for marketers and providers who participated. The company did not manufacture allografts and instead acquired allografts from tissue banks and relabeled them for sale at a 2,000% mark-up, charging up to $1,450 per square centimeter. The defendant is alleged to have paid illegal kickbacks of approximately 40% of that amount, allowing marketers and medical providers to pocket approximately $500-600 per square centimeter.
The hive of fake hospices in California were raided:
In the Central District of California, charges were brought against a hospice owner and two marketers for a $27.7 million Medicare fraud scheme in which the hospice owner allegedly tried to avoid detection through a scheme to purchase information of the recently deceased from a funeral home employee. The defendant was allegedly carrying out a hospice fraud scheme in which he fraudulently enrolled patients who were not terminally ill.Concerned that Medicare and law enforcement used data analytics to monitor the percentage of patients discharged from hospice alive (an indicator of fraud), the hospice owner allegedly paid illegal kickbacks of $1,000 to $3,000 per person to a funeral home employee in exchange for deceased Medicare beneficiaries' information. The defendant then allegedly billed Medicare for a few days of hospice services for these recently-deceased individuals who hadn't received hospice care and created fake, back-dated medical records claiming that the beneficiaries had been seen by a physician, thereby allegedly seeking to deceive Medicare by reducing his outlier data metrics.
And of course the fake "adult day care" scam:
In the Eastern District of New York, charges were brought against eight defendants for their role in a $38 million fraud on New York Medicaid for social adult day care services that were medically unnecessary, procured by kickbacks to marketers and beneficiaries, and never provided. Although the permitted occupancy of the social adult day cares (shown below) was only 30 people, the defendants fraudulently submitted claims for services provided to hundreds of beneficiaries per day.
One of Trump's bugaboos is opioid distribution. 28 licensed medical professionals, mostly doctors, were charged in illegally writing opioid prescriptions.
...The defendants allegedly operated a voicemail refill line that allowed patients to request and receive refills of Schedule II controlled substance prescriptions--though some patients who used the refill line to obtain Schedule II controlled substances from the defendants suffered drug overdoses and died, the defendants continued to operate the refill line to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances without interacting with patients.
F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli
@USAttyEssayliToday, under the leadership of @VP Vance and @DAGToddBlanche, we are announcing the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown involving 455 defendants charged in connection with $6.5+ BILLION in alleged fraud.
One person arrested by @FBILosAngeles in the Central District of California was Jeannie Choi, 57, of Torrance.
She is charged along with two other defendants--Oren David Shachar, 59, of Van Nuys, and Abraham Shin, 66, of Corona--with a hospice fraud scheme that caused Medicare to pay nearly $27 million in fraudulent claims.
Shachar allegedly exploited deceased Medicare beneficiaries by collecting their personal health data and medical records through meetings with surviving relatives. He then directed staff to use those identities to create false, backdated hospice records claiming evaluations and terminal certifications that never occurred.
Shachar paid Choi and Shin between $1,000 and $3,000 for each deceased beneficiary fraudulently enrolled in hospice care.
Shachar and Shin have pleaded not guilty and have a trial scheduled for August 11. Choi is expected to make her initial appearance and be arraigned today in Los Angeles federal court.
Public health programs intended to help the elderly and sick are being undermined by fraudsters, threatening the financial stability of these programs for all Americans. We are committed to rooting out the rampant fraud that has plagued our institutions for too long.
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Trump's Acting Director of National Intelligence Begins Mass-Firing Obama/Biden Holdovers and Hacks
—Disinformation Expert Ace
During Trumo's first term, a friend of mine, Rich Higgins, wrote to Trump advising him to fire just about everyone in the Office of National Intelligence. Obama and then Biden had purged most good people from the organization and filled it with political hacks.
Trump's acting Director of National Intelligence, Bill Pulte, just took the long-awaited step of firing their asses.
ABC "News" is pissy, of course, because the Democrat way is to fill the bureaucracies with stone-cold Democrat/progressive partisans who shape the country's policies even when a Republican is nominally the president.
Trump's acting director of national intelligence begins firings at agency, sources say
Trump had previously called for the "needed downsizing of the office."
I don't know if the office really needs to be downsized. But I think it's easier just to say "we need to downsize" and then to fire all of the Obama hacks.
And then later, maybe, decide "Oh we need a few more people, we're going to hire some more people."
President Donald Trump's acting director of national intelligence has begun firing people at the agency, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.Bill Pulte, a Trump loyalist with zero intelligence experience, took over the agency late last week and had promised to cut hundreds of jobs at ODNI once taking over.
Obama never held a real job before he became a state senator and the left insisted to us that he had all the experience he needed to be president.
It was not immediately clear how many jobs had already been affected, but sources told ABC News that the National Counterterrorism Center was expected to be hit hard.
Oh, John Brennan's old unit?
...Trump, for his part, has made clear he wants Pulte to slash jobs at the agency.
Trump said earlier this month the size of ODNI has been "way too high for way too long" and told reporters he wouldn't mind it if cuts were made. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, Trump also said he wanted Pulte to "start the process" of firing ODNI personnel and cited his role as acting director as "less shackled," according to the paper.
John Thune knows better than to poke the bear again and supports the firings:
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Fourth Circuit Overturns Lowly District Court Judge, Okays Trump's Expedited Deportations
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Congress passed a bill authorizing expedited deportation -- which could take as little as a few days. They called this, "expedited deportations."
I am stressing it's called "expedited deportations" because the Hawaiian judges who keep blocking Trump from doing this seem to think that Trump is breaking the law by attempting to use expedited deportations to deport illegal aliens in an expeditious manner. They think it should take years upon years until the feds just give up and let the illegal alien stay forever.
The Fourth Circuit considered the dispute. They looked at the part of the law that says "expedited deportations" and
reasoned that the law must mean that illegal aliens can be deported expeditiously.
Federal court allows ICE to expand expedited deportations nationwide
A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with an effort to expand fast-track deportations throughout the U.S., in a legal win for the president's crackdown on illegal immigration.The 2-1 decision by a panel of judges at the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia Circuit allows the Department of Homeland Security to carry out an expansion of the expedited removal process, which empowers federal immigration officials to deport some detainees without court hearings.
Before the second Trump administration, the expedited removal policy was limited to areas close to the border and only applied to recent entrants who could not prove they had been living in the country for more than two weeks.
But the policy allowed to take effect Tuesday -- which was drafted in the first week of President Trump's second term in January 2025 -- expands expedited removal to anywhere in the United States. Officials can use it on any unauthorized immigrant who cannot prove they have been in the country for more than two years.
Congress left it to the Executive to determine how broadly to apply the power. Leftists have been suing for years claiming that because previous presidents -- Biden and Obama --did not choose to use the power to its maximum effect, that means Trump isn't allowed to either.
And Hawaiian judges agreed.
But now they've been overruled.
In August 2025, a federal judge found the Trump administration's expansion of expedited removal violated due process rights, following a lawsuit from immigrant advocacy group Make the Road New York. The panel of appellate judges disagreed Tuesday, invalidating her order.
The two appellate judges in the majority -- Trump-appointed Justin Walker and Neomi Rao -- found the policy offers sufficient due process protections.
"Make the Road has not shown that the expedited-removal process denies its members notice and an opportunity to be heard," they wrote.
The law stupidly includes a provision that an illegal who can show that he's been living in America, illegally or legally (and it will be illegally, of course) for two years is not subject to this expedited form of deportation.
Leftists made up a new part of the law that would read, if it existed, that Trump is required to inform each deportee of this fact so they can begin scrambling to make up a fake timeline showing their continuous presence in the US.
Held: Cops and judges do not have to write illegal aliens' defense motions for them.
Last August, a lower court judge called the government's procedures for ensuring people aren't accidentally subjected to expedited removal "woefully inadequate," writing that migrants were not even informed of the fact that being in the country for at least two years is a possible defense. On Tuesday, the appellate court pushed back, finding that standard "would require immigration officers to provide what amounts to legal advice."
Obama-appointed Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins dissented from the core of the ruling, arguing the policy deprives people of due process rights. In part, he wrote that the policy doesn't require immigration officials to ask migrants how long they have been in the country, or inform them of the two-year rule.
Socialists Take Over the New York Democrat Party, Eye a National Takeover
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_BREAKING: Rep. Espaillat concedes. Mamdani-backed socialists have officially gone 3/3 and won all of their respective Democratic primaries for U.S. House in New York tonight. Their positions are some of the most extreme & far left Dems have seen:
Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13): Abolish prisons, abolish ICE, abolish borders, defund the police, and "all deportations are wrong", including for violent criminals. She has called the U.S. an "effing disgrace", and said in a prior social media post "I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me."
Claire Valdez (NY-7): Grant citizenship and voting rights to illegal aliens, use taxpayer funds for all transgender treatments, & eliminate private health insurance.
Brad Lander (NY-10): Abolish ICE, forgive all student loans (almost $2 trillion worth), expand the Supreme Court.
Mamdani gets a clean sweep, a bad night for Hakeem Jeffries, and big questions for where the Democratic Party is heading.
One of the big winners yesterday was a communist who wants to empty the prisons and refuses to say that even murderers should go to jail. Darializa Chevalier -- a child of an immigrant and, as Actual Justice Warrior surmised, most likely an anchor baby herself -- is firmly against deportations for any reason, favors illegal aliens voting in US elections because the elections affect them too, and wants to end all enforcement at the border.
Meet the Islamic daughter of an immigrant who a leftwing magazine calls "the Next AOC," Darializa Avlia Chevalier.
She is now the Democrat candidate for the 13th Congressional district in NY and will of course win the general.
She says that if you're convicted of murder in the US you cannot be deported on top of that because that would be "double jeopardy" and there's a constitutional forbiddence of that. This is of course completely untrue; if you commit both a murder and a theft, you can be punished for either. Double jeopardy means being punished twice for the same offense, but the Learning Disability Left doesn't know basic things like this.
This anchor baby has an Anchor Murder policy, as Actual Justice Warrior termed it. She really believes that if you commit a murder in the US and go to jail for it, you are now guaranteed permanent residence in the US because deporting you after the murder sentence is double jeopardy.
She is a zealot on defunding the police and emptying the prisons. refuses to say that even murder should result in a prison sentence. Liberal Ben Smith asked her four times in this group interview by liberals if a murderer should ever go to jail and she kept refusing to answer, saying instead that she wants to look at the root causes for the murder and objecting to prison because people only go to prison if they're "black and brown."
Oh and she attended a pro-Palestinian rally the day after October 7, to celebrate the attacks, and converted to Islam three years ago.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
As happens seemingly every year (I wrote about it last year, too), Europe is again going through a major heat wave. This time, they're calling it a "heat dome" and there's lots of apocalyptic language being thrown around, and plenty of blaming "climate change" for this thing that happens every summer. It is indeed hot. Parts of Western Europe have been over 100 degrees and it's expected to continue for a few days. Britain is expecting to set records. Europe can't deal with it and the perennial lack of effective response has real consequences.
According to the WHO (grains of salt, etc.), heatwaves have killed 200,000 Europeans in the past four years. That's a lot of people. For comparison, heat-related deaths in the United States - a country where many parts are much hotter than Europe - has had 20,000 heat-related deaths in the past 25 years. This year, Europe is responding as it always does: by banning things and by engaging in hysterical hand-wringing. It's the only response the EU ever has, and it is perhaps the only response it can have.
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The Morning Report — 6/ 24 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. So, this happened yesterday in the primary elections.
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s far-left slate of Big Apple congressional hopefuls prevailed in Tuesday’s Democratic primary — with firebrand Darializa Avila Chevalier projected to pull off an AOC-style upset.Former city Comptroller Brad Lander and state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez were quickly projected by the Associated Press and NY1 to win over their establishment Democrat opponents. Avila Chevalier held a razor-thin 49.3% to 46% lead over Rep. Adriano Espaillat with 86% of votes counted late Tuesday, leading the five-term incumbent to concede. The projected win by Avila Chevalier and the congressional race victories — coupled with a likely clean sweep of Democratic Socialists of America candidates in state races — signaled Mamdani could expand his socialist wave beyond New York City, to Washington, DC. . . The candidates hold a slew of far-left views that were once fringe within the Democrat Party.. ....Valdez and Avila Chevalier both campaigned on their staunch opposition to Israel — labeling the Jewish state’s actions in Gaza a genocide — and on pushing their pro-Palestinian values. Like Mamdani, the pair called for a full divestment of Israel and cutting off of any sales of US arms to its ally in the Middle East.
Valdez also echoed the Mamdani admin’s radical housing platform, pushing for the seizure of property from bad landlords.
All three also want to abolish ICE and Avila Chevalier, a community organizer and doctoral candidate, has even said she doesn’t believe foreign criminals should be deported.
One can laugh at New York and smugly claim, and not unjustly so, that they brought this on themselves. while New York at least for the last 50 years or so has for sure been liberal, the David Dinkins years notwithstanding, it has not been insane. A combination of cultural societal and political conditions have converged to create a perfect storm of insanity that has utterly eradicated the legacy and miracle of the Rudy Giuliani years. And so while one can jeer at New York, this madness can and likely will spread.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” CNN Senior Political Commentator Van Jones reacted to Brad Lander’s primary win over Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) by saying that “The Mamdani phenomenon is not a one guy thing. The Democratic Socialists are an insurgency in this party.” And “This is a serious movement inside the Democratic Party. The left is on the march.” . . . He continued, “But I think people who thought this was going to be kind of a cute guy off to the side, there’s a huge infrastructure here, there’s a movement here, there’s passion here, and people who don’t like it are going to have to wake up and smell the coffee. This is a serious movement inside the Democratic Party. The left is on the march.”
You know who else was "on the march?!" All Jones needs is an Austrian inflection with a soupçon, or mit einem bisschen of Ugandan/Muslim jive for extra texture! For those unaware or as a refresher, Van Jones is a full-on Anti-American anti-Western freak as you can see from his rap sheet here at Discover the Networks.
Jones’ new approach was modeled on the tactics outlined by the famed radical organizer Saul Alinsky, who stressed the need for revolutionaries to mask the extremism of their objectives and to present themselves as moderates until they could gain some control over the machinery of political power. Jones still considered himself a revolutionary, but a more effective one thanks to his revised tactics.
And thus we had the candidacy and now the actions/policies of Abigail Spanberger among others. So no Van Jones was not lamenting the hard left lurch as illustrated by Mamdani and last night's results in NYC. Far from it, his nipples were bursting with orgasmic glee. But, is this filthy bastard right and my hopes that the coming of President Trump heralded a sea change in our culture merely a speed bump on America's road to hell?
Yes, James Talarico I assume has no shot at all, ditto all the others like him scattered around the sane areas of the country, or am I whistling past the graveyard?
By the end of this year, there could be 10 socialist mayors in the U.S. That’s the most since the 1910s, when socialism was the shiny new object embraced by educated elites. But what excuse do Democrats have today – after 100 years of socialism’s miserable, murderous failures – for embracing this toxic ideology? Back in 1911, according to one historical count, members of the Socialist Party of America won office in 74 towns and cities, and another 32 in 1913. Fast forward to today. As NBC News put it, “Democratic socialists are on the rise in Trump-era mayoral races … fueled by a backlash to Trump policies, economic strain and fatigue with the Democratic establishment.” Right now, there are eight socialist mayors – the most since the 1920s – and primary voters in one-party District of Columbia virtually guaranteed a ninth when they nominated a socialist to run that misbegotten city. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, socialist Democrat Nithya Raman will face off against the Fidel Castro-loving incumbent Karen Bass. Then there’s Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is a socialist in all but name. . But Democrats rushing to embrace the current socialist fad should beware, because the last one was (thankfully) short-lived here in the U.S. In 1919, only five socialists won mayoral elections. Even in the middle of the Great Depression, there were only three socialist mayors in the country. A “historical note” by the New York University Libraries says the party had trouble containing its “revolutionary wing” right off the bat. And the 1917 Russian Revolution, it says, “encouraged the left wing of the party to demand a more militant program and, when this was not forthcoming, to secede from the party in 1919 and establish the Communist Party.” . . . As the City Journal notes, “As more and more DSA members take power, the group they belong to keeps getting more radical—a tension they will inevitably have to resolve.” A separate City Journal article points out the party’s “emerging militant network.” Republicans ignore these developments at their own peril, since they can’t fight something – even if that something is as toxic as socialism – with nothing. And dismissing it as “junk food of modern American politics,” as GOP strategist Luke Ball told Fox News recently, isn’t going to cut it.Yes, way too busy voting to give money to Ukraine to pass the SAVE Act.
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Daily Tech News 24 June 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- It was Prime Day again. Here are the deals you missed. (Tom's Hardware)
There was a reasonable price for the 4TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD, but not on Amazon and the deal is over and they're out of stock.
- For me, the deal of the day was on the Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3, cut from A$1000 to A$500. Also not on Amazon, but I scooped one up from local electronics chain JB Hifi.*
They also had the new Gen 5 model (the Gen 4 was a China exclusive), listed at A$1500. It's about 20% faster than the Gen 3 and has a 20% higher resolution screen, which is not enough to convince me to spend 200% more. Particularly since neither of those are issues with the Gen 3 anyway.
* Long time readers may recall that I bought one of these on sale last year. Yes. And now I will have two.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 23, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Tuesday night ONT. It has arrived. So have you. Open thread, as always. Got anything interesting to say tonight?
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It's Too Darned Hot Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
San Giovanni Bianco, Lombardy
From yesterday, but it fits the "Too darned hot" theme of tonight's cafe.
Dog enjoys the prow of a boat.
Otter bathing beauty.
Dog waits for his toys to dry.
Dog averts a possible injury.
Dog is very happy to see mistress after three days.
Another reunion, this one after (the vid claims) three years. Let's say it's been a minute.
Cat doesn't know what's going on but it's very exciting!
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AGAIN: The BBC Fake-Apologizes For Deliberately Covering Up for "Trans Woman" Who Threatened to Murder Little Girls At School for the Crime of "Misgendering"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is the real face of "transfemicide."
Whatever that is, and that's not a Tuq'r Qarlson style evasion -- seriously, whatever that made-up word for a made-up non-trend is.
On January 19, the BBC "reported" on "threats" made against schools.
Here is their first report -- keeping all relevant facts out of public sight.
A man who admitted sending a number of threatening hoax emails to schools across Merseyside, causing some to go into lockdown, has been jailed.Darren Rigby, 21, of Runcorn admitted three counts of sending communication threatening death or serious harm over a number of days.
Holly Lodge Girl's College in Liverpool, Greenbank High School in Southport and later The Belvedere Academy in Princes Park in Liverpool were targeted in January.
The threats were serious enough that the schools temporarily closed. The "younger girls" were "particularly affected" and were "terrified."
Parents and the public generally would want to know what occasioned these threats, and what kind of a person this "man" is.
But the BBC refused to tell them.
Only now, six months later -- after the man threatening to murder little girls is sentenced to 28 months -- do they admit the motive for the crime:
A man who admitted sending a number of threatening hoax emails to three girls schools, threatening to target pupils and staff over the "misgendering" of trans girls, has been jailed...In the email to Holly Lodge on 19 January, he said he was "inside the school, hiding with a sword and crossbow", adding that he was "going to injure and kill as many girls as I can" and anyone who "tries to stop me will also be shot".
On 23 January, he sent a message to Greenbank, saying he on his way "to the school with a revolver and machete".
He said he was "going to shoot and stab all of your girls", adding that "you TERFS" [an acronym of Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist which has been used as a derogatory term against women opposed to gender ideology] were "going to learn to stop mocking and misgendering transwomen like me".
A transwoman?
Note that the BBC always claims that "transwomen" are women -- until one of those transwomen threatens the mass murder of little girls, and then they just call him a "man."
Why the sudden change to the stylebook rule about identifying "trans women" as "women," BBC?
See more from John Sexton at Hot Air. The BBC "apologizes for the failures in its reporting," but does so with a lie: they claim that the reason these key details were omitted was a simple "miscommunication" between reporters and editors.
Do you believe that? Because I'll tell you, I don't.
Trust us, they lied.
Fire them all. Every single person involved in this corrupt suppression of reality, and everyone involved in drafting this fake cover-up non-apology.
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Woke Prophet James Talarico Is So Convinced of His Chuch of Progressivism Dogma He's Busy Deleting It All From His Website to Snooker Texas Voters
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He's even deleting the word "progressive."
See, he's a moderate now you guys.
Texas's Talarico Scrubbed Website of Statements Supporting 'Trans Kids' and 'Bold, Progressive Ideas' Ahead of Senate Run
Talarico, who represents a deep-blue district in the State House, has excised the word 'progressive' from campaign site
Texas Democrat James Talarico's website once promoted his support for "trans kids" and "bold, progressive ideas." That was then. Around the time he launched his Senate campaign in a state that hasn't elected a Democrat to the upper chamber since 1988, that changed, a Washington Free Beacon review found. Today, as Talarico tries to break the Texas Democrats' dry spell, his campaign website makes no mention of his "progressive" values.As a state lawmaker representing a deep-blue Austin district, Talarico was not shy about broadcasting his left-wing views. On his site's homepage, the 37-year-old said he was "not afraid to stand up to Republican extremism" and boasted about leading "the fight against their efforts to bully trans kids, ban books, whitewash our history curriculum, gut public education with a private school voucher scam, and force their Christian nationalist agenda onto the people of Texas." The site's "Accomplishments" section, meanwhile, presented Talarico as a champion of "Bold, Progressive Legislation."
"I'm committed to building momentum for bold, progressive ideas--no matter how long it takes," Talarico wrote, according to an archived version of the site from August 2025, less than a year ago. "I've introduced ambitious legislation to give every Texas teacher a $15,000 raise, legalize marijuana, combat climate change, and repeal anti-union laws that keep workers from organizing."
The site got a makeover in early September, when Talarico launched his Senate campaign, archives show. The homepage credits Talarico with fighting "billionaire mega-donors" rather than "Republican extremism." A "Meet James Talarico" section touts the Democrat's efforts to "expand job opportunities for young adults" rather than fight for "trans kids." And the site's "Why I'm Running" page says the "biggest divide in this country is not left vs. right" but "top vs. bottom." The word "progressive" has vanished.
The revisions reflect the challenges Talarico faces as he attempts to swap a State House seat in the liberal enclave of Austin for a U.S. Senate seat in a state that has not sent a Democrat to the upper chamber since 1988, when Lloyd Bentsen was elected to serve a fourth term. Kamala Harris won Talarico's Austin district by nearly 50 points in 2024, when President Donald Trump won Texas by nearly 14 points. In his earlier races, Talarico presented himself as a "Democrat," with endorsements from left-wing groups like "Liberal Austin Democrats," who's "fighting back against Republican extremism." Now, he says he's an "eighth-generation Texan, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian" running to "take his fight against corruption to Washington."
Somehow Talarico can't convince Texans that he's actually a man.
Talarico's State House and U.S. Senate campaigns also share donors, most notably Talarico's mother, Tamara Talarico, with whom Talarico shares a checking account. She has contributed thousands of dollars to federal Democrats since 2023, including $650 to Talarico's Senate campaign, and contributed $5,000 to his campaign for state representative in 2021. That same year, she and Talarico's adoptive father, Mark Talarico, covered Talarico's "moving expenses" at a cost of $1,437.84, records show. Talarico was 32 years old.
The New York Post reports on something I'm pretty sure is no longer on Talarico's website: He's a self-declared "fanboy" of a a self-described "TransQueer Latinx" theologian.
Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico once lavished praise on a self-described "TransQueer, Latinx" activist theologian as a major source of inspiration for his left-wing philosophy."When you started following me on Twitter, I couldn't contain my inner fan boy, because I read your book last year and it continues to inspire me and y'all's work continues to inspire me," the state lawmaker told Roberto Henderson-Espinoza during a March 2021 podcast appearance.
"I told you I was a boring, straight, cis white man, and I added 'Presbyterian' to spice it up," Talarico added. "My imagination is also just limited by my own background and identity."
"My whiteness, my masculinity, all those things limit my imagination about what's possible," he went on. "And that's where ... your book helps me do that."
Henderson-Espinoza, a PhD scholar, uses He/They pronouns and self-describes as Mestizaje (mixed race), autistic, non-binary, transgender, and Latinx.
Autistic? No.
I know it's mean to link these mutants' pictures, but I do so because it makes it pretty clear that they are not engaging like traditional philosophers in an inquiry into the nature of reality, but are instead ugly, dumpy weirdo failures working backwards from their handicaps and physical flaws and confabulating a mock-religion that tells them they're really really pretty.
The book Talarico referred to was Henderson-Espinoza's "Activist Theology," published in 2019, which lays out a brand of progressive religious values aimed at fighting "interlocking supremacies."The two began interacting in February 2021 after Talarico followed Henderson-Espinoza on X and described himself as "a BIG fan."
Since winning the Democratic nod for Senate, Talarico has faced a deluge of attacks from Republicans accusing him of being too woke for Texas.
GOP critics have pointed to Talarico's past remarks, including from 2021, when he explained that "In my faith, God is non-binary," argued that the Bible is fine with abortion, and suggested that there are six biological sexes.
Talarico's past affinity for Henderson-Espinoza seemingly provides some clues about where he was getting some of those ideas.In 2018, Henderson-Espinoza penned a paper calling for "transing religion as one approach to methodologically dismantle the logic of the norm that grounds the reproduction of binarisms and theologies of complementarity."
He praised the Bible as "trans-positive," described transgender individuals as "Easter icons," and has given sermons while wearing "Black Lives Matter" paraphernalia.
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North Texas Antifa Cell Members Recieve Combined 450 Years as Sentence for "Protest" Involving Shooting of a Cop in the Neck
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Andy Ngo delivers the good news.
The actual shooter got 100 years, a trantifa ringleader got 70 years, and various other antifa/trantifa conspirators got 50 years, with a couple getting 30.
The left is claiming this is an "attack on free speech" because their violence is, of course, "speech."
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: North Texas Antifa Terror Cell Members Sentenced to Combined 450 Years in Federal Prison
And their legal woes are not yet over.
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Eight members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell received historic federal sentences on Tuesday, with prison terms ranging from 30 years to life in prison for their roles in the shooting ambush on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. The attack led to the first federal Antifa terrorism prosecution -- and later convictions -- in U.S. history.U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman sentenced ringleader Benjamin Hanil Song to 100 years in prison. Song was convicted of the most serious offenses in the case, including attempted murder and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Prosecutors proved at trial that he shot Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross in the neck during the Fourth of July attack last year.
Bradford Morris, a trans militant and sex worker known as "Meagan Morris," who lived in a Dallas commune with other trans individuals he referred to as his "wives," was sentenced to 50 years. (The Kessler Heights neighborhood commune also functioned as one of the group's bases.)Maricela Rueda was sentenced to 70 years in prison.
Elizabeth Soto was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
A Mexican national received 30 years. See the article for the whole list.
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The defendants were among nine Antifa members convicted by a federal jury in March following the first federal Antifa terrorism trial in U.S. history. Their prison sentences are the longest in American history for convicted violent Antifa members.
Jurors found the defendants guilty of offenses including providing material support to terrorists, rioting, conspiracy involving explosives and related crimes.The trial featured extensive evidence regarding the group's ideology, planning and preparation for the attack.
Seven co-defendants pleaded guilty ahead of trial, and five agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and testify against their comrades. As part of their plea deals, they admitted in signed stipulated facts to the court that they organized behind an antifa ideology.
But antifa is just an idea
One of those co-defendants, Lynette Sharp, told jurors that members trained together with firearms and coordinated through encrypted Signal chats. Evidence introduced at trial showed that members operated under aliases and carefully planned the direct action.
Jurors viewed video evidence showing the cell arriving dressed in black bloc and equipped with firearms, body armor, medical supplies and explosive devices.
According to testimony, Song acquired 11 firearms and distributed them among members of the group before the operation.
The group used explosive fireworks to lure federal agents and facility personnel from the detention center before opening fire.
Lt. Gross survived the shooting. Jurors were shown his blood-stained ballistic vest during testimony.Investigators recovered a cache of weapons, ammunition and electronic devices stored in Faraday bags designed to block signals. Authorities also later recovered Antifa anarchist propaganda. Testimony established that members of the group had trained together and collectively acquired more than 50 firearms before the attack.
More at the link.
Additional codefendants will be sentenced on July 1.
Violent antifa propaganda rag the New Republic calls this a "crackdown on free speech."
Oh, New Republic? Do we conservatives equally have the right to use guns against the left as part of our "free speech"?
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Politico: Senator Reuben Gallego (Who Fancies Himself a Candidate for President or VP in 2028) Shared a Joint Back Account With His F***buddy Eric Swalwell, Used His Campaign Kitty to Pay for Personal Expenses
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I can't believe that this slob believes he can be President or VP.
He thinks he has an in because he's Hispanic and Democrats are nothing but racial panderers.
Oh, I guess he does have an in, then.
Gallego tapped campaign cash for family travel, Super Bowl tickets, records show
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) has deployed donor funds to cover travel for his family, child care and a trip to the Super Bowl, a POLITICO review of campaign finance records shows.
Sen. Ruben Gallego repeatedly used campaign cash to fund luxury outings with his wife and to care for his children since launching his campaign for Senate in 2023, according to a POLITICO review of campaign finance records and a person familiar with the senator's spending.The Arizona Democrat has used his leadership PAC to fund recent trips to Miami, Chicago, Disneyland and Disney World with his family. Gallego has tapped that PAC and his main campaign committee for more than $18,000 in reimbursements for child care since 2019 -- including $400 to his wife's mother for babysitting.
A Democrat using public funds to pay a family member for "services rendered"?!
I did not see that coming.
And Federal Election Commission records show that on one such occasion, Gallego used a joint campaign account with disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell to attend the 2023 Super Bowl in Arizona with his wife, Sydney.Federal lawmakers can legally use campaign committee funds for travel, food, events and even child care, as long as those funds are not for "personal use," meaning they may not cover activities that would exist irrespective of the campaign, according to the FEC. Leadership PACs are not even beholden to that "personal use" rule, meaning lawmakers have broad latitude to use the money they raise as long as it has some fundraising function. Ruben Gallego has leaned into that leeway, with his three children, Sydney Gallego, her mother and their full-time au pair frequently joining the senator on donors' dime, according to the person, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the situation.
"He just spends his campaign account like it's his personal slush fund," said the person. "He's using campaign cash to live a luxury lifestyle."
Gallego did not dispute using donor funds to pay for family travel or child care. "This is not breaking news," he said in a statement to POLITICO. "With the rising costs of child care and the burden it has on the budgets of American families, Democrats and Republicans in Congress and the White House alike regularly travel with their wives and children, as is permitted by the FEC."
Unbelievable. He blamed his misappropriation of funds for personal use on... Trump.
Gallego is considering a presidential run in 2028. On Friday, Gallego traveled to South Carolina, where he took part in the Democratic Party's "On the Road" series on Juneteenth.But the pattern of spending could pose a major liability on top of his longtime friendship with Swalwell, who resigned from Congress in April amid allegations of sexual assault and a series of headlines about his misuse of campaign funds.
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The person familiar with his spending said that there was concern among some members of Gallego's inner circle that he would not pass the required vetting to be president or vice president.
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Gallego has denied any knowledge of Swalwell's actions and called for him to be expelled from Congress. Swalwell has called the allegations against him "false" and pledged to fight them.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) told CBS News in April that she had asked Senate leadership to investigate Gallego about allegations of misconduct that are "sexual in nature," as well as "issues of campaign finance violations" but did not release details. A Gallego spokesperson called those allegations "right wing conspiracy theories." Luna did not respond to a request for comment.
Dude, you had an affair with a staffer and then divorced your wife when she was nine months pregnant. You went around the world with Eric Swalwell while he was banging whores in hotel rooms in which you were present as well.
This is not a "conspiracy theory."
Under Threat of Anti-Trust Action, Un-American MLB Walks Back Threat to Discipline Players for Daring to Include Biblical References on Their Forced Gay Cosplay Hats
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As you know, the San Francisco Giants forced players to wear pRiDe rainbow caps. Some players objected to being forced to wear this antibiblical message, so they put little strips of cloth on the caps noting a specific Biblical passage that mentions the rainbow as God's promise to never flood the world again.
It was a small attempt to balance out the compromise of their conscience being forced upon them by the Gay Mafia, Baseball Chapter, and the Gay Mafia could not tolerate that. They threatened to fine or discipline the players daring to safeguard their own consciences, citing fake rules that no player may ever include his own private messages on his uniform.
That's a lie, the league allowed/encouraged BLM messaging on uniforms and cleats.
Josh Hawley responded by threatening to investigate major baseball's unique and unlawful judge-made exemption to our anti-trust laws, and once again corporate back down because money and phony-baloney jobs are much more important to them than their woke posturing.
MLB Walks Back Threats Over Bible Verses At Pride Night"The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be."
Major League Baseball backed down Monday after threatening several San Francisco Giants players over Bible verses marked on their Pride Night caps, promising not to fine or discipline them for expressing their Christian faith.In a letter to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred said the league was enforcing existing rules and blamed the San Francisco Giants for a controversy that quickly became a religious-liberty flashpoint.
"By warning the Giants players that they may not include Bible verses on their caps in the future, MLB was not discriminating or chastising those players based on their religious beliefs; rather, MLB was enforcing (with only an oral warning) a long-standing, collectively bargained rule that keeps uniforms clean and avoids controversy," Manfred said.
Manfred explained that the MLB allows clubs to wear customized uniforms during just 12 league-sanctioned events each year, including Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day, Sept. 11, and Jackie Robinson Day.
And BLM messages.
And if you don't want players stealth-objecting to the pro-LGBT messages you're forcing them to repeat, stop forcing them to repeat pro-LGBT messages. Make wearing the Gay Cosplay optional.
However, Manfred said individual clubs retain the flexibility to recognize other commemorative events throughout the season. He noted that in 2023, the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers successfully requested that their use of Pride emblems on uniforms and hats during Pride Night be grandfathered in under the league's policy.
Oh, so some people are allowed to add their own messages to their uniforms, if the Gay/BLM MLB approves.
..."We understand that some players or other on-field personnel have not been comfortable wearing the pride emblem on their uniform based on their religious beliefs," he added.
During Pride Night, San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Landen Roupp was among them. He inscribed a passage from Genesis 9 on his cap in silver, placing it next to the rainbow logo.
The verses describe God's promise to Noah and all future generations that he would never again destroy the earth with a flood, with the rainbow serving as the sign of that covenant.
What a horror!
I could understand some consternation if players were including the passage from Leviticus calling homosexuality a sin, but all they were doing was supplying an alternate justification for wearing the rainbow, noting that the rainbow was a promise from God.
They would wear the rainbow -- with the gloss that the rainbow they were celebrating was God's rainbow.
Acceptable? No! Tyrants must be obeyed!
The San Francisco Giants decided, "No, not only do you have to wear the Gay Rainbow, you also have to mean the Gay Rainbow means what we say it means. We will not allow you to pretend the Gay Rainbow is anything other than your personal affirmation of homosexuality. Reject your god and bow to the new gods."
But they're the good guys, right? Bullies and tyrants are always the good guys in history, right?
I keep noticing that they way favored political minorities say they want to be treated is not the way they treat minorities when they have the (temporary, limited) majority power.
...Shortly thereafter, MLB issued a verbal warning advising players not to include Bible verses on their uniforms in the future, triggering a wave of conservative backlash, including legal scrutiny from elected officials and state attorneys general.
"The Civil Rights Act prohibits MLB and its franchises from unreasonably burdening the rights of players with religious objections to serving as the League's vehicle for pro-Pride messages," Assistant Attorney General Dhillon wrote in a letter to Manfred.
In a response to Hawley's scathing letter, Manfred appeared to deflect blame to the San Francisco Giants.
"Unfortunately, this year the Giants' communication with players was inadequate and not clear. Some players apparently did not understand that they had the option to wear their normal uniform and elected to add messages to their hats bearing the pride logo as a result," he explained. "After the game had concluded, my office issued a routine oral warning about the uniform policy violation -- unfortunately, it was issued before we became aware of the Giants' lapse in communication,"
In a win for the conservatives, the MLB vowed that no players would be punished for the Bible verses.
"The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be," Manfield said.
Fuck you. Strip their anti-trust immunity.
This is the problem with monopolies. You can't just tell these players "Find another league that doesn't force you to confess sinful messages contrary to your religion," because the monopoly guarantees there is no other league to join.
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Two More Leftwing Incels Charged In Planned UFC Mass Casualty Attack; Another Incel Kills Two People in Montreal
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Maybe young working-age men shouldn't spend all day on the internet jacking off with a robotic vagina. Maybe that's not the way God or biology (or both) designed men to live their lives.
Maybe it does something insidious to your brain.
Just a thought.
Two new defendants charged in alleged White House UFC mass-casualty attack plotJordan W Rincker allegedly transferred a shotgun and funneled cash to co-defendants who planned to storm the White House
The FBI has identified two additional suspects in the alleged plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event in Washington, D.C., bringing the total number of publicly identified defendants to seven.Newly unsealed court records identify Missouri resident Jordan W. Rincker and Washington state resident William Lee Spartacus Falkner as alleged members of the conspiracy. Prosecutors say Rincker allegedly helped fund and facilitate the operation, while Falkner allegedly discussed procuring and operating drones intended for use in the attack.
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Falkner allegedly joined a Telegram chat devoted to drone operations June 7 and communicated with other alleged conspirators about drone procurement, tactics and the use of explosives, according to the Washington state complaint.
Prosecutors allege Falkner discussed obtaining multiple drones through a network of contacts and argued that "the more drones the better." Court records also allege he exchanged messages about drone payloads, anti-jamming measures, fiber optics controls and the number of drones needed to carry out the attack.
The complaint alleges Falkner claimed he could obtain drones capable of carrying heavy explosive payloads and discussed coordinating their acquisition with other members of the group.
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The newly unsealed affidavit also suggests investigators were examining whether members of the group discussed a potential future attack targeting a FIFA World Cup match scheduled for July 3 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Prosecutors said the plotters met around March through a TikTok community known as "Vanguard of the Old" where participants shared workout videos and tactical content before moving to encrypted Signal chats.
TikTok, huh? Why does Trump permit China's propaganda/destabilization app to exist in the US? (It's banned in China!)
That's a rhetorical question. I know why: Because it's popular among the brainwashed, vacant-eyed youths and no one wants to incense the incels. A lot of the more disturbed losers threatened to literally kill themselves if TikTok were banned.
But sometimes, you have to bite the bullet.
Meanwhile, a similar nihilistic violence event actually came to fruition in Montreal.
Suspect 'neutralized' after Montreal shooting leaves at least 2 dead including officer
A suspected gunman has been neutralized by authorities following a Monday shooting in Montreal's Cote-des-Neiges neighborhood that left a police officer and a citizen dead
A gunman was "neutralized" Monday following a shooting in Montreal that left one police officer and one other person dead.Authorities told Fox News that the shooting happened in the Cote-des-Neiges neighborhood of the city.
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A male officer and a civilian died, he said. A female officer was injured and taken to a hospital in critical condition but was upgraded to stable condition.
Via Beege Wellborn at Hot Air, the incel left behind a manifesto attacking women and capitalism.
Montreal shooting: suspect left a manifesto attacking women and capitalism
The man, who drove from Alberta in recent days, espouses "incel" ideology
The man who opened fire in Montreal on Monday left behind a delusional manifesto in which he attacks, among other things, women and Western capitalist society."Be unwavering, move forward, and KILL THEM ALL!" wrote Seth Hatfield in the conclusion of his 104-page document. Police were meticulously analyzing the text on Monday, in the hours following the tragedy that left three people dead.
It is unclear whom the young man proposes killing. According to our sources, Hatfield drove from Alberta in recent days. Investigators believe he espouses an ideology aligned with that of "involuntary celibates," or "incels."
In his lengthy text, which our Investigative Bureau was able to review, he laments "the state of affairs regarding young people (roughly under the age of 30) living in highly developed Western countries."
He decries the plight of the majority of men, whom he calls "ordinary men." He contrasts them with a small number of "brutes"--men supposedly preferred by women due to their attractive physiques. The individual who donned a military uniform at the time of the act is nostalgic for a society founded on traditional values.
Although a lot of this incel's manifesto appears left-wing, you can also see some echoes of the Left-Right Fusion of the Extremes that Tuq'r Qarlson and Cavernous Nostrils are trying to create. (Tuq'r has been railing against capitalism and in favor of socialism for some time. This shouldn't be surprising -- Hitler attacked capitalism as a Jewish contrivance as well. I wonder if this is the "revolutionary violence" he called for in his New York Times interview, before showing his coward's stripe yet again and denouncing himself for having admitted that. Go to 0:48 for that.)
In a speech worthy of the Middle Ages, Hatfield lashes out in all directions. According to him, most women today engage in "frequent and cruel verbal abuse" toward men.Among other unacceptable remarks, he claims they have also "abandoned all or most efforts to be attractive" -- not to mention the refusal of some to have children.
"For the average man, the closest thing to intimacy he is entitled to is usually watching internet pornography on his phone screen, in the darkness of his bedroom, late at night," he writes.
I didn't say anything about your hobbies, dude.
So Close to Pride Month? As Chicago Recovers From Bloody "Juneteenth" Violence Leaving Eight Dead and Thirty-Nine Shot, BlacKKK Mayor Brandon Johnson Changes the Topic and Babbles About Anti-Trans Violence That Barely Exists
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It was another weekend of slaughter in the Lightworker's supposed home city.
8 dead, dozens hurt over holiday weekend in Chicago, including 14 shot during Juneteenth party
A 14-year-old boy was among the dead from gun violence over the long weekend, which also left nearly 40 people injured, catching the attention of President Donald Trump.A 14-year-old boy was among eight people killed over the long holiday weekend that saw nearly 40 others wounded, including 14 people shot during a Juneteenth celebration on the Far South Side.
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A mass shooting in Roseland happened Friday about 11:10 p.m. in the 200 block of West 95th Street as a large crowd gathered for the holiday. A red SUV drove by and two people inside opened fire, hitting the 14 victims, whose ages range from 17 to 47.
That shooting caught the attention of President Donald Trump, who posted on social media: "Lots of Killing going on in Chicago. 22 people shot, at least 4 Dead. Why isn't Governor Pritzker calling me for help."
Seven others were killed from Thursday at 5 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m., according to officials. They include:
Christopher A. Lakes, 34, shot in Austin;
Aniyhas S. Jackson, 18, shot in Austin;
Craig Wright, 21, shot in Englewood;
A 37-year-old man shot in the 500 block of East 38th Street in Bronzeville;
A 33-year-old man shot in the 3000 block of West 30th Street in Little Village;
A 29-year-old man shot in the 11900 block of South Michigan Avenue in West Pullman;
A 32-year-old man shot in the 600 block of East 92nd Street in Chatham.Other shootings wounded nearly 20 others in neighborhoods on the South and West sides, according to Chicago police.
Note that the "14 shot" mentioned there has greatly increased... to 39.
So another Red Weekend in a Blue City.
Why aren't billionaires paying more in taxes? And other questions to distract you from the literal Death Cult that is the Democrat Party.
Racist clown Brandon Johnson doesn't want to talk about this and certainly doesn't want to ask The White Man for help.
Instead, he wants to extend the "crisis" declaration regarding the non-trend of the non-word "transfemicide."
Transfemicide.
Lunatics make up their own languages in the asylums, don't they?
Chicago mayor ridiculed for touting trans violence 'state of emergency' amid murder-plagued Juneteenth weekend
The mayor's office reupped the 2024 "Transfemicide State of Emergency," drawing mockery from commentators online
Chicago's mayor has become the subject of ridicule after promoting his transgender violence state of emergency amid a deadly Juneteenth weekend where dozens of people in his city were shot and six were killed."Since declaring a Transfemicide State of Emergency, our administration has strengthened the City's capacity to support LGBTQ+ Chicagoans," a Sunday X post from Mayor Brandon Johnson said. "This framework builds on that work by centering the voices and lived experiences of trans Chicagoans to chart a path toward a safer, more connected city."
How about the mass shootings in Chicago? Anything, you low-IQ incompetent DEI disaster?
"Transfemicide" is defined as the "targeted killing of a transgender woman motivated by transphobic and misogynistic hatred." Critics were quick to point out that Johnson appears focused on promoting on Juneteenth weekend the fight against an obscure transgender violence category rather than the killing of black Chicagoans.
Critics point out the obvious.
A report on the subject suggests that violence against transgender women, particularly black, indigenous people of color (BIPOC) transgender women, is endemic in Chicago.But the report does not mention how many transgender women have been killed in the city, and admittedly includes suicides in the "transfemicide" category despite the term's definition.
Online critics lambasted Johnson for focusing his administration's energy on the transgender issue, and many noted that the timing of the post coincided with a weekend where 39 people were shot and six killed while the city celebrated Juneteenth.
"Nobody knows what a 'Transfemicide State of Emergency' is," said Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, on X. "This is what the Mayor of Chicago is focused on."
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"Everyone is dunking on this but I think it's NICE that Mayor Johnson finally found a type of murder he doesn't like. Baby steps," said X personality Jarvis Best.
Despite the lies of activists who claim that there's some ever-increasing trend of people murdering trannies, the actual truth is that, despite so many trannies working in the incredibly dangerous sex industry, transgenders experience violence at lower rates than the rest of the population.
They claim otherwise to "center" themselves in the discussion, always.
Hello! I hope everyone and their families are feeling good and healthy on this Tuesday afternoon.
