The Morning Report — 5/ 15/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Considering what's going on in the world, and how it has a direct impact right here at home, this story seems to be fading away far too quickly.
Authorities reported a bomb at an Alabama dam that posed “an unprecedented threat” during routine repairs on Tuesday.Mobile’s water and sewer agency alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office after discovering a grenade-like improvised explosive device underwater at the federally designated Converse Reservoir dam, according to local media reports. The nearby Daphne Search and Rescue Team, Mobile Police Department (MPD), Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) and FBI bomb squad also responded to the scene.(RELATED: Trump DOJ Hits DC Pipe Bomb Suspect With Terror Charges)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was also notified of the discovery.
The Converse Reservoir is a 3,600-acre lake that “is the source of all drinking water and most raw water” for the Mobile area, according to the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS).
Officials have not released information on anyone potentially responsible for placing the bomb or how it happened. The Gulf Coast Regional Maritime Response and Render-Safe Team retrieved and safely detonated the device, Advance Local reported. . .
. . . “This is an unprecedented threat, and we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals,” MAWSS Director Bud McCrory said, NBC 15 reported. “We are grateful for the professionalism and competency of our law enforcement partners — as well as the quick thinking of our contractors and divers — in identifying this device and safely destroying it.”
Agencies are working to boost security around the dam, multiple outlets reported.
While this is indeed an "unprecedented threat," not to minimize the disaster that could have happened had the explosive detonated and the dam was actually breached, given our pre-Donald Trump non-existent border and immigration control, and the proclivities of our global adversaries/rivals and let's face it enemies, imagine a more sophisticated device planted at the base of Hoover Dam?
I suppose, that is I pray, that the security in and around the Dam and other highly sensitive sites would be extremely tight. And yet, experience should teach us that assuming this to be the case would be most unwise. And lest we forget, there are those among us who are not foreigners, by birth anyway, who seek our destruction for various and sundry ideological reasons.
The man accused of starting the Palisades fire, one of the costliest disasters in U.S. history, was motivated by a resentment for the rich and viewed Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, as a Robin Hood-like figure, according to court documents detailing evidence gathered by federal prosecutors.In a court brief filed last week, authorities say a forensic review of his computer showed Jonathan Rinderknecht searched “Free Luigi” and “reddit lets kill all billionaires” in December 2024.
Rinderknecht, 30, is accused of starting the Lachman fire in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 1, 2025, which smoldered underground for a week before exploding into the deadly Palisades fire.
I was thinking perhaps a whacko Red/Green enviro-communist, but anything that advances, in their twisted minds the cause of anti-Americanism and freedom is fair game. By any means necessary, right?
Also, Iran is on the verge of economic collapse with the regime not far behind it and Red China's economy and society are also not necessarily in tip-top shape either, despite the propaganda to the contrary... though certainly not nearly in as critical a condition as Iran. The latter have exported terrorism around the globe since Jimmy Carter midwifed them into the world 47 years ago, while China has followed the Soviet model of infiltrating our society to bring us down from within going back even farther. Mao's cultural revolution was not limited to the confines of China, as has been plainly evident for quite some time now.
“A police station operating in New York City at the direction of the Chinese government has been exposed, its sinister purpose disrupted, and its founder held accountable for blatantly disregarding the law and our country’s sovereignty.” – U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. . . . Lu faces up to 10 years in prison for acting as an illegal foreign agent and an additional 20 years for obstruction of justice. His conviction underscores growing concerns about Chinese influence operations on U.S. soil. It also highlights the CCP’s global strategy to suppress dissent and exert its power far beyond its borders. On Tuesday, the National Pulse reported on Eileen Wang, the Democrat mayor of Arcadia, California, pleading guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government.
Lest we forget Eric Swalwell, NYC pol Grace Meng, Dianne Feinstein's chauffeur the Confucius institute's on college campuses all over America and on and on. Not to mention the massive tracts of farmland as well as real estate abutting sensitive military installations and far too many Chinese nationals employed in our defense and tech sectors as well as research facilities, stealing our secrets.
And of course, unleashing germ warfare on us...
The recent indictment of former senior NIAID official David Morens has ripped the lid off the COVID-era corruption machine. Now, against the backdrop of the United States Senate investigation on COVID origins, North Carolina taxpayers and families also deserve to know whether their flagship public university played any role in the research that may have sparked the entire disaster. Ralph Baric, a world-renowned virologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, by all accounts collaborated for years with Shi Zhengli at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology on bat coronaviruses capable of infecting humans. NIH grants under Anthony Fauci helped fund that work -- including controversial gain-of-function experiments that many experts now believe helped create the conditions for the pandemic.As a state-supported institution -- with Chapel Hill as North Carolina’s flagship campus -- UNC owes its citizens full transparency. There are reports of public information requests being either ignored or stonewalled. Who was paid what, and why? Where did the money flow in from, and where did it finally land? What was the actual result of the research conducted in Chapel Hill -- a scientific breakthrough in a bottle, or harm to millions?
Leaving the investigation in the hands of the United States Senate is not enough.
And suddenly, we have an outbreak of the Hantavirus on a US-bound cruise ship, just as we may be on the verge of toppling Iran, boxing in the Red Chinese and maybe even toppling the Cuban communists and liberating that island gulag after 66 years. Our enemies abroad and especially in our midst can't have that, now can they. Not with two crucial elections in November and then 2028 in the balance...
On April 1, 2026, The MV Hondius, a Dutch-registered cruise ship, departed from Ushuaia, a city in southern Argentina. Between April 6 and April 28, a number of passengers became sick, with the first reported death on April 11. On May 2, an outbreak of hantavirus was officially reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). Hantavirus is carried by rodents and there are currently no targeted treatments or widely available vaccines. Consequently, the 18 American passengers have been put into quarantine. Sixteen of the passengers are being monitored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, while the other two passengers are at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. One of the passengers has been placed in biocontainment due to testing positive for the Andes virus, a hantavirus subtype. The passengers reportedly range from their late 20s to their 80s. Early symptoms typically include fatigue, fever, and muscle aches, especially in the larger muscles of the hips, thighs, and back. Hantavirus symptoms typically occur between one and eight weeks after exposure...“The risk of hantavirus to the general public remains very, very low,” said Admiral Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
But the risk to Democrats, Leftists and globalists is existential, should they lose the next two elections.
Have a great weekend.
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- Mobile’s water and sewer agency alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office after discovering a grenade-like improvised explosive device underwater at the federally designated Converse Reservoir dam, according to local media reports. The nearby Daphne Search and Rescue Team, Mobile Police Department (MPD), Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) and FBI bomb squad also responded to the scene.
Bomb Planted Near Mobile’s Water Supply And We Barely Know Anything
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Daily Tech News 15 May 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- AMD has announced FSR 4 upscaling support for Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 cards. (Tom's Hardware)
A year after it was released for the 9000 series, and eight months after the source code for a version that worked on RX 6000 and 7000 cards was accidentally leaked.
This is good news for owners of older AMD graphics cards - and also for Xbox and PlayStation owners, which use custom versions of those older graphics designs. In fact Sony has announced its own release of FSR 4 technology for the PlayStation 4.
It may be the console contracts that held AMD back from announcing FSR 4 for older cards for so long. They could have released a beta driver for PCs, but for consoles it has to just work.
The update will be out for the RX 7000 range in July; RX 6000 owners will need to wait until early next year.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - May 14, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
From Pure Nature
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to another whelming Thursday night ONT. Content provided for those who are into that sort of thing. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Undercover Elephant Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In Tokyo, the cyberpunk future arrived in 1981
by hiro tanaka
The power of nature -- man is catapulted through the air after the roof he is trying to hold down is ripped off by powerful winds. In fairness, Crom laughs at your four winds.
Supposedly, this is what schizophrenic hallucinations look and sound like. JackStraw, is this what you see when you "toke" the marijuana plant?
A beaver rubbing itself.
Capybaras feel at easy in every situation.
If you live with a cat, congratulations, you live with a celebrity.
You know that odd bird call you always hear in movies set in the jungle? Apparently it's been a Kookaburra all along. But it's an Australian/New Guinean bird so I don't know what it's doing in every South American, Asian, and African jungle. Thanks for ruining jungle movies for me, Facts. And jungle movies are the best movies.
Steve Inman:
Street justice. The first clip I linked a month or so back, featuring a bunch of girls in cocktail dresses pulling hair and kicking each other. One girl gets her top pulled down and another girl seems to be wearing a thong or no underwear at all. The last one is great -- some "prankster" punches random people and videotapes it to see their reaction. The reaction is a knockout punch.
Some lone idiots decide to pick a fights with entire road construction crews. It doesn't work out for them.
Classic FAFO: Giving the kangaroo molesting your dog a little chin music.
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The Fairfax County, VA Soros Prosecutor Is Grilled by Congress for Making Charging Decisions Based on a Criminal's Immigration Status -- Letting Illegals Off on Light Charges So They Don't Get Deported
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This guy is a literal menace to public safety.
Fairfax County prosecutor Steve Descano was aware of an illegal immigrant's violent past and still elected to set him free, new Freedom of Information Act filings show.Abdul Jalloh, who has been arrested more than 30 times, allegedly murdered 41-year-old mother Stephanie Minter on Feb. 23. Minter's body was found at a bus stop in Hybla Valley, Va. with "multiple stab wounds to the upper body" according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Jalloh entered the country illegally in 2012 and, according to records, is a violent repeat offender.
Fairfax County Police Major Jeff Mauro emailed Jenna Sands, the Fairfax County Chief Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney and Descano's second-in-command, to protest Jalloh's release from police custody. Mauro cited Jalloh's "extensive criminal history," including stabbing several people and sexually assaulting a woman.
"Mr. Jalloh is one of the repeat (and violent) felony offenders I expressed concern about when we met," Mauro wrote in the email. "He has an extensive criminal history--he has stabbed multiple people, sexually assaulted at least one woman, and committed numerous other criminal offenses. Furthermore, his behavior appears to be escalating and becoming more violent and explosive."
Mauro explained that he was "concerned that it is not a question of if, but rather when he will maliciously wound (or worse) again."
According to records posted on X, Fairfax County police encountered the man 178 times. Jalloh attacked an elderly person, stabbed an individual in the head and raped a woman after choking her.
Despite Jalloh's violent criminal history, Sands told affiliate NBC Washington, "In multiple cases, we were unable to move forward with prosecution because victims could not be located or contacted, despite considerable effort from our police department to bring them to court."
An email posted to X shows, however, that Fairfax Deputy Police Chief Brooke Wright explicitly requested "prosecuting without a victim in court" due to the circumstances of the case, which Wright says, "she was on board with."
...Deputy Assistant Secretary of DHS Lauren Bis called on Virginia Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger to not release violent criminals without notifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
"We are calling on Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and Virginia's sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this murderer and violent career criminal from their jail without notifying ICE," Bis said. "This illegal alien's murder of an innocent, beautiful American woman came less than 24 hours before Governor Spanberger's demonization of ICE law enforcement. This heinous criminal is a perfect example of why we need cooperation from sanctuary jurisdictions and the importance of third country removals for the safety of the American people."
Virginia Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger has denied this request, according to a statement from Spanberger's spokesperson, which WJLA reporter Nick Minock read in a video to X.
He was summoned to Congress because he has openly proclaimed that he discriminates against American citizens in his charging decisions, letting illegal alien criminals off with minor charges or none at all.
Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano and Sheriff Stacey Kincaid will be testifying before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement, as will Cheryl Minter, whose daughter Stephanie was killed in February, at a bus stop along Route 1 in Hybla Valley.Abdul Jalloh, a 32-year-old immigrant from Sierra Leone will stand trial for Minter's murder.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice began an investigation of Descano.
In a letter to Descano, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon said the DOJ is investigating whether his office violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the Safe Streets Act, which both "prohibit recipients of Federal financial assistance from discriminating based upon race, color, or national origin."
...The policy in question was adopted by Descano's office in 2020 as part of its guidelines for plea bargaining. It instructs assistant Commonwealth's attorneys to "consider immigration consequences where possible" and states that "prosecutors shall consider ... the collateral immigration consequences of the specific crime(s) the defendant is charged with."
The webpage detailing the policy is no longer publicly available on his office's website.
That's a euphemistic way to say: When Harmeet Dhillon opened a civil rights investigation into his discriminatory charging practices, he deleted the statement about it on the website, to hide the evidence.
After the launch of the Justice Department investigation, Descano said his policies reflect the community he serves, in which "three in ten residents of Fairfax County are immigrants."
Good Lord. No wonder they're flocking to his jurisdiction to do their murders and child rapes.
Cheryl Minter has said if Jalloh had been prosecuted earlier, her daughter would still be alive. She is hopeful the hearing will prompt changes and is working with groups attempting to remove Descano from office....
"Let me be absolutely clear. My office does not provide sanctuary or safe harbor to undocumented immigrants," according to Descano's written remarks. "We routinely prosecute immigrants who commit crimes and we will continue to do so."
Except he doesn't. This is perjury.
When asked about the promises he made during his campaign to let illegal aliens off with light charges or no charges at all, he claimed he was just joshin' and no one would take campaign promises seriously.
Except... that he actually honored this promise, letting one dangerous illegal alien felon off after another.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, tussled with high-profile Soros-backed Fairfax Commonwealth's Attorney Stephen Descano over soft-on-crime policies that critics said let illegal immigrant criminals back on the street.
...Jordan began by pressing Kincaid on why she "let" illegal immigrant suspect Marvin Morales-Ortiz out of her jail: "Because the guy beside you wouldn't prosecute him, right?"
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Jordan then turned to Descano, questioning changes to language on his website about considering immigration consequences in charging decisions.
Descano said the excerpt was part of a "campaign" statement and not an actual law enforcement policy, leading Jordan to incredulously ask whether people should believe his campaign statements will translate into policies upon election.
"That's not what I'm saying," Descano countered.
"This is almost laughable," said Jordan. "This is your policy. You said it right here. You told the voters, if you elect me, I will take into account immigration consequences when making, charging and pleading [decisions]."
Descano's exchange with next Republican to ask questions, Rep. Jeff Van Drew of South Jersey, also quickly escalated into near-shouting.
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He called the conditions in sanctuary jurisdictions "bizarro world" and asked the prosecutor if communities are safer when illegal immigrant criminals are deported or when they are released.
"Well, sir, that's not --" Descano began before Van Drew cut him off. "Yes or no -- I'm asking the questions."
"You're a human being. You're sitting next to a woman who lost her daughter. Can you tell me if illegal criminals are removed from the country; if we're safer," Van Drew said, prompting a fiery response from Descano:
"To suggest I don't care about what happens in my community..." he began before more crosstalk ensued.
"Dammit, answer my question," Van Drew eventually fumed.
"Explain to the lady next to you (Cheryl Minter). Abdul Jalloh was charged in your county more than 40 times. Not four times. 40 times. Your office dropped the charges in almost every single case. That's fact. We have it documented. We can look at it your own. Fairfax County Police Department wrote your office [in] May 2025 saying he had shown a, quote, 'blatant disregard for human life and was a danger to the community' and that if he wasn't detained and deported, he would seriously hurt someone or kill someone," Van Drew said.
"The very man went out and then killed someone. So the question is, couldn't've we done better there?"
Another panelist also elicited occasional rifts with the lawmakers. Libertarian analyst David Bier of the Cato Institute often defended the idea of counties making their own decisions about whether to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
Part of Bier's opening statement drew some eyebrows on X, as he appeared to suggest as much as 20% of Fairfax County's population is deportable -- when trying to argue against mass deportation.
Some clips below. One clip shows Descano claiming that his key campaign promise was and is a lie. His supporters in the room gasp at this claim.
He needs to go to prison.
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Pedro Pascal Knows Exactly How to Advertise a Boy's Science Fantasy Movie: Kissing a Man on the Lips on National TV
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Chris Gore wrote that Disney changing Star Wars (and Marvel) from a boys brand to a girls brand was the costliest mistake in entertainment history.
But they didn't change it to a girls brand.
They changed it to a gay brand.
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Bizarre Democrat Congresswoman Frederica Wilson Is Missing, and Her Staff May Be Covering Up For Her Absence
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Before getting to that: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's congressional seat was eliminated by Ron DeSantis in what many are calling a mercy killing.
Just to prove how important it is to Democrats that blacks have their very own black-only districts, for Muh Representation, Schultz has decided to "appropriate" a majority black district for herself.
This is the seat currently represented by the black female Democrat who stole $5 million in taxpayer funds for covid.
Who is also running again: Because this is the Party of Looters and Shooters.
Politico, but via Ed Morrissey:
Five candidates are vying to be the Democratic nominee in the solidly blue congressional district, and more are considering jumping in -- including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, one of the country's most recognizable Democrats whose current path to reelection has been made more uncertain after Florida Republicans' mid-decade redistricting. Her possible candidacy has generated vocal opposition from existing candidates -- all of whom are Black -- who argue that the seat was held by a Black lawmaker for more than three decades and should be represented by someone who shares their experiences.As one may imagine, voters in the new district are unhappy with both choices:
"This is a majority Black primary electorate and a working class district that needs someone to fight for them -- and they don't have stability and representation," said civil activist Elijah Manley, one of the candidates who has openly criticized Cherfilus-McCormick and Wasserman Schultz. "Now there's a war to decide who will be the voice for these people. ... The people here just want stability, and in order to have stability, they need someone who understands their community and what they need."Candidate Luther Campbell, a former 2 Live Crew member who won a landmark free-speech Supreme Court case over sexually explicit material in one of his albums, called it "ludicrous" that Cherfilus-McCormick was running again. "Focus on your case, and then if you win in your case, then this seat is always up for every two years," he said. He also criticized Wasserman Schultz as "appalling" for considering a run, arguing she would be trying to "take a Black seat."
"I am upset with Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I am upset with Sheila McCormick," he said. "I'm upset with these people because they are playing with people's lives."
On to the missing fashion plate Frederica Wilson. If you're wondering where you've heard that name: She's the Hat Clown Grifter.
She has a wildly inappropriate hat for every occasion. That's her thing. Some focus on national defense, some focus on the economy.
She focuses on novelty cowboy hats. To Save Democracy (TM).
She's missing, but her staff is covering that up.
Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) missed the last 43 House votes and hasn't been seen for a month -- that's maybe not the most disturbing part of the story.The eight-term incumbent is probably best known for her collection of hats -- usually sparkly ones -- is 83 years old, and so it's natural to fear the worst. Wilson's last recorded House vote was on April 17, and House reporter Jaime Dupree noted on BlueSky Wednesday that she "missed all 10 votes on Wednesday in the House," bringing the total to 43 consecutive missed votes over the last four weeks.
The only non-proof of life her staff has offered was a canned statement about a Supreme Court case and DNC pablum in her twitter feed.
But when the congresswoman in question goes missing in action for a month, and that somebody on Wilson's staff just keeps going as though nothing were wrong, well, that's disturbing. When they also photo from last year as though it's new, that's when the paranoia kicks in.My attempts to reach her office via phone and email received no response. Whatever happened, it looks like Wilson's staff are in lockdown mode.
See the link for more. Steven Greene's best guess is that she has had a major health event, but her staff is covering that up so that no Democrat files to challenge her before the deadline expires.
Speaking of Democrat congresswomen who might have suffered a severe neurological incident:
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Minnesota House Report Faults Walz for Engineering the Looting of Taxpayer Funds; Gavin Newsom Spent $189 Million to Give Prisoners Brand-New Free iPads So That They Can Jerk Off to Porn All Day
—Disinformation Expert Ace
So they don't have to work, are given free room and board, and they can cruise the internet all day and jack themselves off to porn twice a day.
And it costs taxpayers close to $200 million.
Oh -- and they also have sex chats with women outside of prison and use the tablets to sexually groom children.
This is "punishment"?
Chris Rufo:
Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California has sought to transform its massive prison system into a Nordic-style rehabilitation program. Newsom has placed a moratorium on all executions, transferred condemned prisoners to facilities across the state, dismantled San Quentin State Prison's death row, and turned the notorious prison into a therapeutic center, with art, classrooms, a café, and podcast studios.As part of this transformation, the Newsom administration approved a $189 million contract to provide new digital tablets--generic, flat-screen devices in a plastic shell--to every inmate in the state prison system, at "no cost" to offenders. The administration heralded the effort to replace inmates' old tablets--which were piloted in 2018 and given to nearly all prisoners by 2023--as a step toward "digital equity" for "justice impacted" individuals, who could, in theory, use the devices to contact their families, consume "educational" content, and "learn new technology."
In reality, taxpayer-funded tablets have also been used for more lurid endeavors. In this exclusive City Journal investigation, we contacted dozens of death-row inmates, who told us that prisoners in the state system use such devices to watch pornography and have explicit sexual conversations. Some prisoners, according to a former high-ranking California corrections official, use their tablets to groom minors. Though the state has claimed to regulate explicit content, the inmates told us that users can easily evade detection.
When reached for comment, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the tablets were "tightly controlled education tools" that provided inmates with "access to the Bible, education, and reentry resources that actually reduce crime."
LOL. Except if they get their hands on the password to turn off parental controls, which I imagine gets sold to them for $10.
But inmates told us a different story. For some, the devices have become personal sex machines. In the words of one inmate, California's death row is populated with desperately "horny" criminals who see the tablets as a way to satisfy their basest fantasies and desires--all thanks to the California taxpayer.
In the 1980s, a rapist and serial murderer named Robert Maury earned the nickname "the Tipster Killer" for calling in anonymous tips identifying the locations of the dead bodies he left behind. During this period, he killed a woman by strangling her with a nylon clothesline, strangled and killed another two women, and brutally raped a fourth before he was caught by authorities.
Now, Maury is living at a state prison facility in Stockton, California, where he has viewed pornography on his taxpayer-funded digital tablet. In an interview, Maury told us inmates can receive "nude pictures" and watch pornography through their devices. In his case, he claimed to have received a topless photo from a 22-year-old German psychology student who was "hoping that I would share my story with her for her class project." After the student sent the photo, Maury said he "flirted" with her "for a while."
Maury said another way that inmates can watch pornography is through the video chat application. In this scheme, he explained, an inmate can call someone on the outside, that person can "put porn on their TV," and the inmate can "watch with them." Maury specified that he has never explicitly asked anyone to broadcast pornography in this manner, but when it happens, he "just say[s] cool and thank you."
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"I would bet my pension that there's a vast amount of childhood pornography on the tablets," said the former official. "There are probably several thousand [children] that are currently being groomed."
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Meantime, despite the obvious risks, Governor Gavin Newsom is moving full-speed ahead with his initiative to "reimagine our prison system" and turn San Quentin into "the nation's most innovative rehabilitation facility." Newsom has offered no indication that he will reverse course on the free tablet program. In fact, the new vendor contract allows for four one-year extensions, which could push its total cost to $315 million. At least one Democratic legislator is demanding that the state make inmates' messages free of charge.
Eckenrod, who anticipated the dark side of "digital equity," believes California has opened the floodgates to abuse. "We created a pathway for them to reach out and groom folks," he said. "There are going to be victims that didn't need to have been victims because of these decisions."
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The Party of Looters and Shooters continues showing its ass in Minnesota.
Final Walz fraud report rips 'culture of tolerance' as Minnesota taxpayers face billions in alleged losses
84-page report follows two dozen hearings and hundreds of whistleblower tips about state government malfeasance
A comprehensive final report released Tuesday by the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee concluding its work for the current session takes aim at a "culture of tolerance" under Gov. Tim Walz that it says allowed serial fraudsters to fleece taxpayers for billions of dollars.The 84-page final report, which follows two dozen hearings and hundreds of whistleblower tips, paints a grim picture of state government malfeasance, incompetence and the active suppression of internal warnings.
The committee concluded that the scale of fraud in Minnesota is "massive and unprecedented," costing taxpayers an estimated $300 million in federal meal program fraud and up to $9 billion in Medicaid fraud. The report asserts that the total amount stolen across multiple programs, including childcare and SNAP, is significantly higher than previously believed.
The report cited several examples of what it characterizes as Walz failing to act on fraud, including a situation, reported by Fox News Digital, where he "tried to blame a court order" for failing to stop payments to the Feeding Our Future fraudsters. However, the presiding judge later issued a public statement clarifying that he never ordered the state to resume payments, asserting that the Walz administration did so voluntarily.
Investigators identified a recurring "business model" used by criminals to fleece taxpayers, which involved low barriers to entry, the use of shell companies and the payment of kickbacks to enroll recipients. The report specifically links the Feeding Our Future scandal to earlier unaddressed fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), suggesting that the failure to stop one led directly to the explosion of the other.The report alleges that Governor Walz created a culture that enabled fraud by failing to hold officials accountable despite years of credible whistleblower reports and audits. It claims the administration "ignored and consciously downplayed" shocking levels of fraud across more than a dozen Medicaid waiver programs and prioritized "compassion over compliance."
While the committee uncovered numerous findings highlighting the severity of the fraud, they found themselves consistently facing opposition from Democrats, including earlier this month when Democrats on the committee blocked an effort to subpoena Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for information on her alleged ties to the convicted fraudsters in the Somali community.
A "Grenade-Type IED" Discovered by Divers at Base of Alabama Dam
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A group of divers conducting routine maintenance on a dam in Mobile, Ala., discovered a hidden explosive device underwater, the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS) announced on Wednesday.Multiple outlets described the explosive as "grenade type-IED," which authorities retrieved and later detonated safely, NBC 15 reported.
"This is an unprecedented threat, and we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals," MAWSS Director Bud McCrory said in a statement.
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Authorities referred the discovery to the Department of Homeland Security. As of press time, they have not identified a suspect or motive for the device's placement near the dam.
I could take a guess if you're looking for a place to start.
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Beginning of the End? Top Starmer Minister Resigns and Blasts Him as a Failed Leader, Demands a Contest for a New PM
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Is this enough? Well, I saw Carl Benjamin laughing at Labour's plight-- Labour was decimated in the council elections, and Starmer is a toxic failure, but Starmer is basically acting like the Joker, insisting that he will remain PM and that the rest of the party can go hang if they don't like it.
I even heard -- I can't find a cite -- that Starmer had threatened to call a snap election if Labour tries to replace him. There must be a general election by 2029, but the government can call for a new election anytime it likes, a so-called "snap" election. So Starmer is basically threatening -- if this claim is true -- that if Labour tries to depose him, he will call for a quick election that will surely result in the near-extinction of Labour at the national parliamentary level.
That aside, pressure is building. I don't know who Wes Streeting is and I'm pretty sure I'd punch you if you tried to tell me. That's how much I don't care about this cuck.
But apparently he's a Health Minister and a big macher in the party.
And now he's jumped off of Starmer's sinking ship, and called for a leadership contest. Which isn't the same as a national general election, it would just be the current parliament voting for a new PM.
So Starmer would, if this actually happens, be replaced by another Labour twat, possibly this Streeting cuck.
David Shaw @David90shaw4h
🚨 BREAKING: It is finally over. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has officially resigned and delivered the final blow to Keir Starmer.
In a brutal resignation letter, Streeting told the Prime Minister directly that it is now clear he will not lead the party into the next election. He is openly demanding a "battle of ideas" to decide what comes next and has called on Starmer to facilitate the transition.
The Cabinet mutiny has officially succeeded. The Starmer era is finished.
Yeah I don't know. Starmer insists that he's the Indispensable Man and that the country would collapse without his weak spindly arms wrapped around the nation in hug that is supposed to be paternal but you can feel his tiny feeble erection poking you in the thigh.
GB Politics @GBPolitcs🚨BREAKING: Wes Streeting to Keir Starmer in his resignation letter:
"It is now clear that you will not lead the Labour Party into the next general election and that Labour MPs and Labour Unions want the debate about what comes next to be a battle of ideas, not of personalities or petty factionalism. It needs to be broad, and it needs the best possible field of candidates. I support that approach and I hope that you will facilitate this."
Starmer responded with a letter once again declaring that he's just too successful to be replaced and he will continue "delivering" hot sexy "change" to the UK, whether the UK wants it or not.
Dude read the room already, goodness gracious.
Starmer previously convinced 100 Labour MP's to sign a letter stating that they would not support a leadership contest and still backed Starmer. That's a good number of MPs -- but it's not nearly a majority, neither in the entire Parliament nor just in Labour's parliamentary delegation (which is a whopping 403, due to the Tories' remorseless betrayal of the voters on immigration and subsequent defenestration).
Do they walk back their support now? And does it matter if they do or don't? 303 is more than 100, even in the confusing metric system.
Apparently it doesn't matter: Starmer loses, according to the polls, to any of the most-mentioned possible challengers.
Politics UK @PolitlcsUK5h
🚨 NEW: Labour members voting intention:
Starmer vs Streeting:
Starmer: 53%
Streeting: 23%Starmer vs Burnham:
Burnham: 61%
Starmer: 28%Starmer vs Miliband:
Miliband: 46%
Starmer: 39%Starmer vs Rayner:
Rayner: 45%
Starmer: 41%Via @LabourList, 1214 members
(1214 members? I don't know what that means, given that I assume only MPs vote.)
Relatedly, Tommy Robinson is planning a big "United the Kingdom" rally this Saturday. Supposedly, 750,000 people are expected to attend.
But Starmer is refusing visas to most of his invited foreign speakers.
Meanwhile, any terrorist "cleric" can come to the UK to fundraise for Hamas and Hezballah and even the IRGC, which continues to be a perfectly legal organization in the UK.
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Trump Cancels $1.3 Billion in Medicaid Payments to Fraud and Piracy Ridden State of California
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Party of Looters & Shooters.
One Nation Under Fraud: Trump administration uncovers massive welfare, citizenship abuses
The cost to taxpayers identified by Vice President JD Vance's task for targeting government benefit programs is mounting, and no plausible explanations are forthcoming.
The Trump administration's work to pare back waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government has reportedly exposed a vast network of taxpayer-fleecing scams, abuses of immigration, and of the citizenship process across all corners of the United States.The story involves resettled refugees soaking up federal paychecks to run home healthcare and childcare businesses, transnational criminal organizations exploiting food benefit programs, and scammers using fake student profiles to make off with millions in federal student loans. It also involves non-monetary forms of fraud, especially in immigration -- legal and illegal alike.
Minnesota's Somali community just the start
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Recent public reports indicate that federally-funded state government programs beyond just Minnesota are ripe for exploitation and fraud. In a sweeping investigation, the Daily Wire and a researcher from the Capital Research Center found that Ohio spent billions of federal dollars on "personal services" payments to home healthcare companies with dubious credentials.
These funds are frequently used to compensate individuals for performing non-medical tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and "companionship" for their own family members. Because these services are conducted inside private residences without supervision, it can be difficult to verify actual service delivery.
Yeah this is just foreigners and other pirates signing up to be paid what they are supposed to do for free -- care for their family members.
"I provided three meals last week to my elderly father." Yeah you're fucking supposed to, jackass. The taxpayer isn't on the hook for buying McDonald's three times (and you charging the taxpayer $200 per "service rendered."
The investigation found a surge in dubious home health companies that appear to exist solely to bill the government. In Columbus, the reporters found a single windowless office building that houses 94 different companies that have collectively billed taxpayers $66 million over a few years. Many of the business owners lacked medical training or had criminal records, the outlet reported.There is evidence that this type of fraud is specifically encouraged by the way federal government programs are set up. For example, the Office of Refugee Resettlement runs a program that helps new immigrants develop "microenterprises," like home healthcare companies, "to help generate an income and achieve self-sufficiency."
Welfare fraud a top priority
The Trump administration has made hunting down this type of welfare fraud a top priority. President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this year establishing a national task force to combat such fraud and appointed Vice President JD Vance to lead it.
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California and Ohio were apparently only the tip of the iceberg. On Wednesday, the task force announced that it would be halting $1.4 billion in federal funding for home health and hospice providers across the entire United States.
Vance also issued an ultimatum to all 50 states on Wednesday, demanding they show that they are adequately protecting against fraud in federally funded Medicaid programs, or risk losing that funding.
"Today, we are sending, across 50 Medicaid programs, letters that will require them to show that they are effectively and aggressively prosecuting Medicaid fraud in their states," Vance said at a press conference. "These letters are the first step. The first effort to try to force these states to get serious about prosecuting fraud."
"We're a generous country. We're generous people. I love that about this country," the vice president added. "But part of that generosity is that it extends to our fellow Americans. We cannot give Medicare and Medicaid benefits to everybody all over the world."
They've cancelled $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California due to Newsom deliberately allowing widespread looting of the American treasury, gay "news" network NBC complains.
Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California and is threatening to suspend federal funding to all states if they don't aggressively prosecute fraud in their Medicaid programs.As part of his role as the fraud czar, Vance said that the administration is targeting California because the state isn't taking fraud seriously.
"There are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn't taking its program seriously, but also you have people who have been prescribed medications that they don't even need. They've had drugs put into their bodies that they don't need because fraudsters have actually encouraged false prescriptions and false administration of medications," Vance said at the White House.
The move is similar to the one the administration took in February suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota.
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Crowey dropped in to grab the last of the turned ground beef. He carried it off to his nest.
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The Morning Rant: Thune Needs To Go!
—CBD
What has the vaunted United States Senate done for us lately? Remember, they are the self-described "greatest deliberative body on the planet!"
They have done nothing. And the only substantive effort they have made has been to keep the Senate in pretend session to prevent a sitting president from recess appointments to the various administrative departments. That is an abuse of the process, that is an abuse of their political mandate, and that is an abuse of the American people.
How does a Republican majority in this senate differ from a Democrat majority?
They have deliberated nothing other than faux issues and nonsensical pronouncements. They have subverted the will of the American people, and have obfuscated and delayed and flat-out lied. And those lies have mostly come from the cartoonish fake-statesman Thune. He is a craven weasel whose political philosophy begins and ends with his personal aggrandizement, and the wishes of his benefactors, which is a fancy term for "owners." And who are they? Pharma! Health Care! Goldman Sachs! And, weirdly, a bunch of auto dealers! And for a senator who is not up for reelection, why does he have $17 million cash on hand? For a small state like South Dakota?
Thune Has Tried Nothing To Pass The SAVE Act And He's All Out Of Ideas
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Tuesday “We don’t have the votes to get rid of the filibuster” as his defense for why he won’t get the SAVE America Act passed. Lucky for Thune, he doesn’t need to “get rid of the filibuster” to pass the SAVE America Act, but he already knows that — he just doesn’t want to pass the legislation at all.
If the good people of South Dakota approve of this clown's transparent attempt to supplant a wildly popular bill with his own belief in the correctness of our obviously broken voting systems, then perhaps it is time to revoke its statehood. But my guess is that the people who voted for him are just as disappointed.
Cui Bono? Who benefits from our country's slide into 3rd world sh*thole status, courtesy of illegal voting? The Democrat junta obviously. But why would Thune support the continuation of this destruction of our constitutional republic and its conversion into a majority-rule "democracy" without any of the checks and balances that have defended our freedoms for 250 years? Is it as simple as Thune's desire for the status quo, which makes his life quite easy, but will ultimately destroy our republic?
If so, he might be even sleazier and amoral than the typical senator, and that is saying a lot.
PS. For a taste of a different sort of politician, listen to Jeff Carter, candidate for Nevada State Treasurer on the CutJibNewsletter podcast!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
And...Yeah...I was in a meeting that ran late!
The Morning Report — 5/ 14/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. I will try to be charitable this morning by asking the simple question, is this guy deaf, dumb, blind and clueless or worse, a miserable collaborationist Quisling?! I don't live in South Carolina so I don't know this guy's record. But given the blast of infernal heat that this nation has endured for generations, regardless there is just no fucking excuse!
State Sen. Shane Massey's (R-NC) first time talking to the president came last week when Trump called him to discuss how he wanted the redistricting to happen, the New York Times reported. The Republican leader of South Carolina's state Senate defied President Donald Trump and voted against a redistricting effort that could have slashed the state's only Democrat-led congressional district, arguing that "South Carolina is stronger when we have a vibrant Democratic Party." Contrary to Trump's wishes, Massey joined four other Republicans in voting against the proposal that would have allowed for the Senate to reconvene later this month for a redistricting effort.
As a complete aside, regardless of the spelling, just what the hell is it with people named Massey, (the late great thespian Raymond, notwithstanding)?!
I am of course referring to RINO sex-pest Tom from Kentucky.
Shane, the fucking problem and the reason that this nation is a red nether hair's breadth from plunging headlong into the abyss is because it has had to endure the very same "Vibrant" Democrat party and the fires of hell it has unleashed on us going back almost to the founding. In what insane version of reality is South Carolina better with James Clyburn anywhere within 10 billion light years from the levers of power? Ditto his entire party.
And a hearty fuck you to this loathsome turd of a RINO too:
Republican Governor Tate Reeves has suggested that Mississippi will not redraw its congressional maps before the 2026 midterms.
I suppose Tate Reeves and Shame, er ShaneMassey think Germany in 1933 was much more vibrant with the Nazis, eh fellas?!
And here we are nearly 100 years later and we've got vibrancy out the wazoo!!!
On the whole right now I'd rather NOT be in Philadelphia. . .
A Pennsylvania House candidate endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.), Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.), and other leading far-left figures has hailed notorious cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal as one of several "Black freedom fighters" and "elderly political prisoners" and called for his release from prison.Chris Rabb (D.), a five-term Pennsylvania state representative running to represent the state's Third Congressional District, cosigned a letter from the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America last month urging Gov. Josh Shapiro (D.) to free the 71-year-old Abu-Jamal from prison, where the former Black Panther is serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
If Shapiro wants to burnish his prospects for the Democrat nomination in '28, dim as they are being white, male, non-homo, and mostly Jewish by birth, he will find some flimsy excuse to cut this animal loose. If they can steal a national election and create the Russia collusion hoax, surely they can fake exculpatory evidence. Be that as it may, the problem is in not recognizing who and what the enemy is, and our worst enemy is right in our midst.
Roy laid out Islam's growing foothold across the globe, including his home state of Texas, which has seen a surge in Muslim immigration and Islamic communities. . . "Over the past few years, Shariah-based legal institutions have taken root in American communities, and nowhere is this problem worse than in my home state of Texas," Roy said during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government hearing.
Wow, bravo Chip Roy who absolutely gets it. That said the term Islamism is a dodge and camouflage. It's ISLAM, period full stop. Islamism perpetuates the lie that Islam itself is benign and only fringe elements are insane terrorists. That is of course a dangerous myth. I suppose to go full Robert Spencer and call it out for what it is would have been too much insofar as inviting the usual suspects to shout racist, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, etc. ad nauseam and be politically within third rail territory. Still, this is about as close to calling the proverbial spade a spade as I have yet to see any real American politician, declare. So at least it's something.
On another bright note, to compare and contrast with the aforementioned RINO flunky sellouts, CBD and I had a fantastic conversation on the latest episode of the podcast with friend of the blog and now FRIEND Jeffrey Carter, a bright, outstanding patriot who is running for the office of Treasurer of the state of Nevada.
Linked here and in the sidebar and at the usual outlets listed at the bottom of the post.
If we had more Jeff Carters running, and please God, winning, perhaps the term RINO would become extinct and then before long, Democrats along with them! Support Jeff Carter at Jefcarternv.com
On these positive notes, I hope you all . . .
Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- There can be only one. Choose a side.
Good vs. Evil
- Miranda Devine: Jihadis and cartels are targets of the new White House counterterrorism strategy, but so, too, are Antifa, Trantifa and other violent domestic left-wing anti-American groups. It’s a sharp departure from the Biden junta's sinister national strategy on counterterrorism that pretended groups like Antifa didn’t exist and instead targeted Catholics at traditional mass, parents questioning gender ideology at school-board meetings and Trump supporters who, Joe Biden told us repeatedly, were “ultra-MAGA,” “semi-fascist” domestic terrorists.
The Trump admin is going after violent leftists and their twisted ideology - He continued on to argue that “Republicans are stronger when the Democrat Party is vibrant and viable.” “You are. Competition makes you better, y’all,” he added.
Republican South Carolina Senate Leader Kills GOP’s Redistricting Effort: ‘Competition Makes Us Better’
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Daily Tech News 14 May 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Fragnesia is the fourth local privilege escalation bug to hit Linux in the past two weeks. (Phoronix)
Bad news: No major distributions have patches out yet.
Good news: It's in the same kernel modules as all three other vulnerabilities, so if you applied the quick fix of just disabling those modules entirely, you're protected this time as well.
- Oh, and five new vulnerabilities in CPanel since the weekend. (InMotion)
But these ones aren't being actively exploited yet, so just update and you're good.
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Wednesday Night ONT - May 13, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace and Megyn free zone. Please.
Will you be smarter after reading this ONT? Will you be better looking? Will you be more fun at parties? Will you lose weight? Will you be wealthier? Will you be more fashionable? If you skip the content, you'll never know!
[Top photo: Billy Mays is buried in Mt. Cavalry cemetery in McKees Rocks, Pittsburgh]
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Golden Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
by Joao Miguens
Tiger kit practices stalking.
Even in virtual reality, a cat's first instinct is to destroy. Their second instinct is to c**kblock. Their third instinct is to destroy again.
Groove is in the hips.
ICYMI: Man finds his lost dog.
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Massive Report Details the Apocalyptic Evil of the October 7 Massacre -- as the NYT Hides That Reporting to Push Absurd Hamas Propaganda About Israel Training Dogs to Rape Palestinian Terrorist Prisoners
—Disinformation Expert Ace
And the Times rushed that article out -- as opinion, not news, because they couldn't confirm any of the absurd claims in the Hamas propaganda discharge -- to blunt the impact of report about real warcrimes and nihilistic murder-cult depravity.
Among the mutilated and butchered bodies of young women slaughtered on October 7, it was their colourful, polished nails that many of the morgue staff remember.Bright, beautiful, shiny, pink manicures glistening amid the pervasive 'grey and green' of death were often the only reminder of who these girls had been just hours earlier.
Because Hamas-led terrorists had not just executed these women. They had 'deliberately and systematically' defiled them, as the most comprehensive account of the atrocity released by The Civil Commission today shows.
The terrorists shot their eyes, their faces and their breasts, and even targeted their most intimate parts, to destroy their beauty and rob their loved ones of a final goodbye.
Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot and burned. They were executed both during and after rape amid an orgy of violence in which 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage.
Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued.
A grotesque, medieval obsession with sexual organs pervaded the crime scenes at the Nova Festival and in the Kibbutzim near Gaza.
At Kibbutz Be'eri, nails, sharp objects, and pieces of metal and plastic were similarly embedded in a woman whose body was discovered naked and bound. On another victim, grenades were used.
While ordinarily newspapers censor the full horrors of such accounts, today, as hard as it is, over 430 witnesses, survivors, experts and medical staff ask that you do not look away.
For over two years they have given evidence to The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO established in the wake of October 7, 2023, in response to the failure of international institutions to address the sexual violence committed that day.
The Daily Mail was the first British newspaper granted advance access to the report, fittingly titled 'Silenced No More', which is released today.
It shows it was not just women who were degraded as a 'deliberate tool of terror, humiliation, and control'. Men were also sexually abused and in at least one case gang raped.
Victims were mutilated, with body parts cut off used to create depraved scenes gleefully concocted to traumatise those who discovered them.
'The purpose was humiliation, not victory,' first responder Eran Masas, who came across one such barbaric arrangement, told The Civil Commission.
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One dead woman was 'completely without clothes, missing an arm, shot in the head.' He found his sister alive beneath bodies in a shelter.
Eden Wessely, driving to rescue a friend, found the body of a woman in a black dress who appeared to have been raped beside her husband.
'Half of her face was burned, half wasn't,' she said of footage she passed to The Civil Commission. 'She had a bullet in her cheek, and she was frozen in that position.'
Read the whole thing, if you can. There are additional stories of family members forced at gunpoint to perform sexual acts on each other, for the humiliation and depraved evil of it.
Because this story was coming out, it fell to one of the NYT's many terrorist mouthpieces to launder the propganda claims of the Hamas terrorist organization into print in a formerly "respectable" and formerly western outlet.
David Harsanyi:
Like many leftists living in social media bubbles, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof is obsessed with Israel. And because he has a risible understanding of the Middle East, he's also highly susceptible to believing unhinged conspiracies aimed at the country.This week, however, in a pseudo-journalistic piece headlined "The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians," the columnist excavates conspiracies so unhinged that no marginally reputable media outlet has ever touched them. Even the New York Times relegates it to its op-ed section, since the piece breaks every rule of objective journalism. But even columnists have an obligation to abide by the basic standards of evidence. Kristof does not.
Kristof tells the story of an unnamed 23-year-old Palestinian woman who contends she was arrested after Oct. 7, strip-searched, mocked, tied up, beaten, and then molested and likely raped by Israelis. The Israelis, the woman tells Kristof, wanted to "crush her spirit," a curiously political statement for an alleged rape victim.
In any event, Kristof not only fails to provide the woman's name, but he offers no other witness, no complaint, no medical evidence from an Arab doctor, no photos of bruises, nothing but the accusation. Did the columnist ever verify that the woman had been detained? Because Kristof doesn't tell us in which prison this woman was purportedly held, or why she was arrested, or even when. Any competent journalist would have heard blaring sirens when a story leaves out any detail that could be used to launch a genuine investigation. It's difficult to believe that's an accident. Yet, Kristof treats all the allegations as fact.
Then again, even the named sources Kristof relies on are highly problematic.
Sami Sai, an introspective "freelance journalist" according to Kristof, is actually a Palestinian activist who publicly celebrated on Oct 7. Sai, who has been arrested numerous times for violent incitement, has an evolving story about allegedly being raped.
Another "source" is longtime Palestinian activist and media favorite Issa Amro, who also has an ever-changing story about his time in an Israeli prison. In a 2024 Washington Post piece, for example, Amro very specifically claimed that he was threatened with sexual assault while in Israeli detention. In Kristof's column, he has morphed into a victim of rape.
But Kristof's most cartoonishly evil accusation contends that the Israelis use trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. This hoax is the favorite of online antisemitic podcaster types. Not only has there never been a shred of evidence that this has happened, but it's also probably "biologically and cognitively unfeasible" for humans to train dogs to rape people.
The dog rape claim originates with the EuroMed Human Rights Monitor, a pro-Hamas Qatari-based group. It was spread by, among other shady types, conspiracy theorist Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a former postdoctoral fellow at UCLA who was forced to leave the school after sexual-harassment allegations involving minors.
Palestinians have spent over 70 years pulling hoaxes on gullible Westerners to gain sympathy. Anyone who's followed the Middle East situation for more than five minutes is aware that Israel's enemies are constantly making up ludicrous claims about trained animals. Israelis are apparently the greatest animal trainers in history. The country has been accused of deploying sharks, rats, lizards, cows, dolphins, hawks, and pigs by its enemies. The only difference here is that a Western journalist was credulous or despicable enough to spread the conspiracy.
People pointed out that no reports of a "dog raping a human being" have ever been filed, anywhere, and that it seems mechanically impossible for a dog to accomplish this.
Kristof rebutted that his Palestinian sources had provided him with "medical journals" discussing accounts of dog rape.
But he didn't read those journals, of course.
Because they were reporting human violations of dogs, not dogs' violations of humans.
Tomatoh, tamatoh, right?
I wonder what the relative stats for rapes are as between Jews and Muslims.
No I don't. I know.
Murkowski, Collins, and Paul Defect to the Democrats, As Usual, to Demand Trump Surrender to Iran
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Boy that Rand Paul, what a Great Conservative Manlet.
Alaska's embarrassment, Senator "Princess" Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), has struck again. This time, she joined Republicans Susan Collins (R-ME) and Rand Paul (R-KY) in voting for a resolution to force President Trump to pull out our armed forces who are still poised, locked, loaded, and aimed at Iran. The good news is that the resolution still failed....
The resolution failed in part because of the Democrats' last sane Senator: John Fetterman (D-PA), who voted against the War Powers resolution. The administration is insisting that the cease-fire is, in effect, a reset button on the conflict's 60-day window.
Speaking of the odious Rand Paul: Rand Paul's son doesn't fall far from the Rand Paul, or Ron Paul, tree.
The adult son of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) launched a vile antisemitic and homophobic tirade at Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) at a DC bar Tuesday night, saying at one point that the Iran war was "about the gays and the Jews, and I hate them both, and I don't care if they die."In a phone conversation recounting the evening, Lawler told The Post that he was sitting at a popular DC bar with a friend and a reporter for NOTUS, which first revealed the incident involving William Paul.
"So Rand Paul's f--ing son is sitting next to us at the at the bar ... And he just like chimes in on our conversation, f--ing drunk and belligerent, and then starts going off about, you know, if [Rep. Thomas] Massie [R-Ky.] loses [his primary], it's because of my people," Lawler recalled.
"I'm like, 'What people?' He goes, 'Jews,' and I'm like, 'Do you think I'm Jewish? ... I'm Irish-Italian Catholic, buddy,'" the Hudson Valley lawmaker went on.
"He's like, 'Wait, you're not Jewish?'" Lawler recalled the younger Paul asking, to which the lawmaker said he replied: "And even if I was, what's the problem?"
"And then he got into the Middle East, and he was talking about, like, us trying to steal Iran's land for the Jews and steal the West Bank, and I'm like, 'What are you talking about?'"
At that point, William Paul said: "This war, it's all about the gays and the Jews, and I hate them both, and I don't care if they die."
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"Last night, I had too much to drink and said some things that don't represent who I really am. I'm sorry and today I am seeking help for my drinking problem," William Paul posted on his X account Wednesday afternoon.
The senator's son previously pleaded guilty in 2015 to driving under the influence after smashing his Honda truck into a parked car and being found "belligerent" and with "a strong odor of alcohol," per the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Uh-huh.
He also apologized to Lawler... for calling him a Jew, when he wasn't a Jew at all.
Reese Gorman @reesejgorman3h
New: Sen. Rand Paul's son drunkenly accosted and hurled anti-Semitic insults at Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar on Tuesday night.
His son told Lawler that if Rep Thomas Massie loses, it's going to be because of "your people."
"My people?" Lawler asked Paul.
"Yeah, you Jews," Paul responded.
"Do you think I'm Jewish?" Lawler asked. "I'm not."
"Oh wow, I'm so sorry for calling you a Jew," Paul said.
He then said that Jews were "anti-American" and how Lawler and his "Jewish supporters" served Israel more than America.
I don't really care what this fat alcoholic Daddy Got Me a Job Nepo Baby Failure thinks -- but it is a very interesting look inside the "thinking" of the entire Paul family, and how they launder straight-up antisemitic hatred and support for Islamists though bullshit jive about "libertarians" being absolutist pacifists.
