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I hope those of you impacted by the storm are keeping warm and safe. I've got gas, kerosene, propane, generators, oil lamps, firewood and winter clothing, so we should be snug and warm here, even if the rest of Texas loses it's mind. In the meantime, here's a little advice:
This is one guy's multi-year project. The theme is that it is floor 796 of a space station, but it's got more meme, pop culture, anime, you name it, references than anything I've ever seen.
"It's my wedding night. Mind if I use our vagina?"
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by my new cat. He followed me home one day when I was out for my daily walk, almost a mile, so, well, he's mine. Vet says he's about 4 ½ months old and healthy. His name is Tomato
Pit bull used for dog fights, then abandoned by a dumpster, is rescued and turns out to be a loving boy.
Similarly, a pittie puppie was literally thrown into a dumpster (while still in its kennel, so it couldn't escape). I'm sure that we all have So Much to Learn from the Solid Citizen who did that.
Trans-crazy baby-influencer "Miss Rachel" -- she makes videos "teaching" little children about how great transgenderism is -- liked an antisemitic comment demanding, "Free America from the Jews."
She later "apologized," claiming it was an accident.
But then when a Hamas-linked account wrote that the Jews left that antisemitic "Free America from Jews" comment themselves, Miss Rachel affirmed that comment, writing "ooooooohhh."
Like, "oooooooohhh, nice catch, you caught those tricky Jews!"
She's very apologetic, though. These are all just little accidents.
Ooops!
Ooopsie!
Variety ran a " " " story " " " consisting of five liberals whining that Bari Weiss doesn't acknowledge that they, her inferiors, should treat them as her superiors.
Jennifer Sey has some thoughts about the bottom bitches of any company who are quite certain they know better than the boss:
Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSey
When I became the Chief Marketing Officer at Levi's, at about 2 months in, I had some mid-level know it all come into my office to tell me everyone hated me, I was steering the ship into oblivion. She told me everyone knew I was doing a terrible job. (The brand had been in decline for over 10 years.)
What I had done in my first two months:
1) Say no one could go on trips anymore unless they had a role at the photo shoot or event. No more boondoggles.
2) No drinking at events or concerts we were hosting. We were there to work, not party.
2) Say Marketing needed to feature actual product in the ads.
3) Say we needed to move away from dark and moody and into the realm of fun - because people have fun in jeans.
Awful, right?!
She wanted me to know, she said, she was trying to help. (She put her feet on my desk while saying this.)
Needless to say, this was not a person who was very good at her job. And I wasn't doing mine to be liked so I didn't care if "everybody hated me". I was trying to turn a business around that had been flailing. I took the responsibility seriously.
Six years later, we had a very successful IPO.
2 years after that I became the brand president.
These people complaining about new leadership are lame. They always do it. They want it how it was, even if how it was wasn't working. And it's even lamer that @Variety writes about this like it's news.
She is a farm vehicle. I don't really know what that means but she is very heavy.
Died Suddenly
@DiedSuddenly_
A Pakistani doctor was arrested in Virginia for performing c-sections and hysterectomies on unsuspecting American women when they were most vulnerable.
He would wait for them to be under the influence of labor medication and sterilize them after delivery of their babies.
The hospital reportedly ignored red flags for years, overlooking concerns and reports because he generated over 18 million dollars in revenue for the hospital.
If you are an American, think twice about hiring a foreign doctors from countries that hate us.
Inez Stepman responding to "Conserving Conservatism" Bill Kristol's claim that he has known many men who successfully transformed into women:
Inez Stepman
@InezFeltscher
The trajectory of the "conservative condemning the right" is basically the same one trod by porn actresses. The first time you open your kimono is the most valuable, and thereafter you find yourself doing increasingly humiliating and degrading acts just to stay relevant.
BTW I do believe that Bill Kristol has frequent interactions with men in dresses.
This Person Place or Thing has a dream: He wants to be the first tranny to receive a womb transplant, so that he can then have an embryo implanted, and then abort it.
I have no idea why the public has turned on these nasty psychotics. None at all.
«Quiero ser la primera "mujer trans" [aka, un hombre] en recibir un trasplante de útero para ser la primera "mujer trans" [aka: un hombre] en abortar». Nuestras vidas, sus delirios. pic.twitter.com/XV4nqaU2t4
— Contra El Borrado de las Mujeres (@ContraBorrado) January 21, 2026
I've lived in 5 states, visited several more. Been around plenty of white people.
The number of negative racial incidents I've had in decades I could count with one hand.
Since 2021, I've lost count as to how many times a white leftist has called me a coon, nigger, house nigger https://t.co/qhwASym4vU
— Adam B. Coleman, Proud Father & Imperfect Man (@wrong_speak) January 21, 2026
Civil War Watch:
Detectives' Endowment Association
@NYCPDDEA
Last week, two NYPD Detectives were mistreated while seeking medical attention at NYU Langone -- Cobble Hill Emergency Room after being injured on duty during the arrest of a violent perpetrator. Upon arrival, they were met with rudeness, disrespect, and a lack of basic professional courtesy by hospital administrators.
It is an outrage that any NYPD Detective injured in the line of duty should have to worry about being treated at any hospital in the city they protect. As nurses across the city strike over issues like workplace safety, treating Detectives poorly is not how to make hospitals safer.
No one--especially Detectives injured in the line of duty--should face such treatment. The DEA is investigating this matter and will pursue all available remedies to ensure our members are treated with the dignity and respect they have earned.
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino
@VickieforNYC
Let's be clear about this -- hospital staff refused to treat plainclothes NYPD detectives injured in the line of duty. Not only that, these officers were treated with contempt completely outside ethical bounds for medical personnel.
From what I understand, staff supposedly did this because they thought the NYPD officers might have been 'ICE agents' as if that is a valid excuse to refuse a patient.
Let's be very clear about something -- when doctors and nurses and medical staff begin to refuse critical care over perceived political differences, we will have reached a breaking point in this country.
If this behavior is allowed to continue, and is not met with swift condemnation and consequences by the mayor and government leadership of New York as well as medical licensing boards and the professional community at large, trust in the medical profession will be shattered beyond repair.
Even during wartime, doctors and nurses were bound to treat the wounded of both sides. And they could be trusted to provide competent and compassionate care no matter who they were treating. It was, in fact, a badge of honor for the profession.
If the medical profession has now abandoned that basic morality, and patients now have to worry about being refused treatment -- or worse -- because of political hostility from their own countrymen, then a rubicon has truly been crossed and there isn't much else to say.
This is a disgrace, it is unacceptable, and it is indicative of the profound moral rot that progressive activism has brought into every corner of our civics.
The left is taking us down a very dark path indeed.
"Congratulations on the tennis win. Now, could you please say the politics things I want to hear?"
"No."
"To clarify, I'm obsessed with my weird little strand of politics, and I'd like you to say words I like."
I think men should be tested for estrogen and if they have too much, like this pussy, they should be drafted into a special military unit. In war, they will be projectiles.
Microplastics: The Invisible Killers Or, You Know, Maybe Not
—Ace
The great microplastics panic: Was it all just 99% bullshit?
I know a lot of you are saying "of course it was, dipshit."
I kinda-sorta bought into it at a low level. Microplastics were claimed to be a potential disruptor of testosterone. I didn't buy into it seriously, but I did buy steel straws instead of plastic ones. That's a pretty low level of buy-in. I think they cost me six buck.
'A bombshell': doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a 'joke'
High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say the discoveries are probably the result of contamination and false positives. One chemist called the concerns "a bombshell".
Studies claiming to have revealed micro and nanoplastics in the brain, testes, placentas, arteries and elsewhere were reported by media across the world, including the Guardian. There is no doubt that plastic pollution of the natural world is ubiquitous, and present in the food and drink we consume and the air we breathe. But the health damage potentially caused by microplastics and the chemicals they contain is unclear, and an explosion of research has taken off in this area in recent years.
However, micro- and nanoplastic particles are tiny and at the limit of today's analytical techniques, especially in human tissue. There is no suggestion of malpractice, but researchers told the Guardian of their concern that the race to publish results, in some cases by groups with limited analytical expertise, has led to rushed results and routine scientific checks sometimes being overlooked.
The Guardian has identified seven studies that have been challenged by researchers publishing criticism in the respective journals, while a recent analysis listed 18 studies that it said had not considered that some human tissue can produce measurements easily confused with the signal given by common plastics.
So, plastics are mostly made up of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, which are of course the building blocks of living tissue, too. So the "signals" are just indicating that carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen are present, and these high priests of The Science (TM) are saying "Must be plastic!!!"
"Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising" was the shocking headline reporting a widely covered study in February. The analysis, published in a top-tier journal and covered by the Guardian, said there was a rising trend in micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) in brain tissue from dozens of postmortems carried out between 1997 and 2024.
However, by November, the study had been challenged by a group of scientists with the publication of a "Matters arising" letter in the journal. In the formal, diplomatic language of scientific publishing, the scientists said: "The study as reported appears to face methodological challenges, such as limited contamination controls and lack of validation steps, which may affect the reliability of the reported concentrations."
One of the team behind the letter was blunt. "The brain microplastic paper is a joke," said Dr Dusan Materic, at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. "Fat is known to make false-positives for polyethylene. The brain has [approximately] 60% fat." Materic and his colleagues suggested rising obesity levels could be an alternative explanation for the trend reported in the study.
Materić said: "That paper is really bad, and it is very explainable why it is wrong." He thinks there are serious doubts over "more than half of the very high impact papers" reporting microplastics in biological tissue.
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But the brain study is far from alone in having been challenged. One, which reported that patients with MNPs detected in carotid artery plaques had a higher risk of heart attacks and strokes than patients with no MNPs detected, was subsequently criticised for not testing blank samples taken in the operating room. Blank samples are a way of measuring how much background contamination may be present.
Another study reported MNPs in human testes, "highlighting the pervasive presence of microplastics in the male reproductive system". But other scientists took a different view: "It is our opinion that the analytical approach used is not robust enough to support these claims."
Um, because they are mentally ill and drugged up and no one ever tells them to shut the fuck up and act like adults?
The BBC assures me it's far more complex than that.
"There was definitely a moment of discomfort at the start," says Deena, but she says her visit to a so-called rage room felt very different to what she'd expected.
She didn't feel chaotic or aggressive smashing things up, but instead "surprisingly controlled and a lot more intentional".
"Once I settled into it, it felt like more of a physical release as opposed to an emotional outburst," she told the BBC.
Deena is one of a reportedly growing number of women choosing to pay to hammer and bash old items such as TVs, furniture and crockery whilst kitted out in specialist protective gear.
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There are still only a small number of venues in the UK where people are handed a baseball bat and let loose. They've been touted as one way to alleviate stress and release pent-up anger.
But what seems surprising is the client base, with some owners saying most of their customers are women.
This surprises you, huh?
So in other words, your initial bigoted assumption is that violent men were employing these "rage rooms" to work out their toxic masculinity, and you were all set to attack them for this frenzied juvenile rage, but now that you are "surprised" to find out that drugged-up mentally-ill women are the primary (read: exclusive) users of rage rooms, it becomes a hip and health trend that everyone should try?
Similarly, Shuka says she didn't feel angry, but wanted to see how it felt to "let loose" and was given a car to smash up whilst listening to a playlist of her favourite songs.
"It was way more satisfying than I expected, there was something weirdly freeing about smashing things and not having to be careful.
"Afterwards I felt like I'd done a workout for my brain as well as my body," she says.
Kate Cutler, the co-owner and founder of a rage room in East Sussex, says it's "getting busier and busier" with female customers.
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She says some women come in because they've been cheated on or had a difficult break-up and sometimes just because "they have anger coming from nowhere."
Author and psychotherapist Jennifer Cox told Radio 4 Woman's Hour she believes women are "conditioned" to repress feelings of "frustration, anger, aggression and rage".
Not as much conditioned to repress these toxic emotions as they used to be!
Often, she says women, in particular - end up "sandwiched" between the demands of work, parents and small children, and can end up "furious."
Really they should let it out, she says, and thinks spaces like this, which allow women to release their anger can be very helpful.
Again, do you believe they would view this violent, crazed behavior as cute and hip if it were men busting things up?
I guess this is now officially a GAINZZZ thread.
I avoided these for a long time, because I have no GAINZZZ. I let myself go at Thanksgiving and I never stopped letting myself go.
And now I'm going to have to fast just to get back to "overweight."
Does it work? I mean, kind of, yeah. If I have two high protein meals I don't feel very hungry at other times, or feel much of a need to snack. But I haven't been doing it consistently.
How about you? Any GAINZZZ? I didn't ask in the New Years period because promises made during New Years are like promises made three feet from a bed. They tend to be forgotten in the morning.
But now that we're into the New Year, and well away from New Years Day-- any real resolutions to declare?
Leftwing Lunatics Now Pushing Pregnancy Denialism, Claiming That Trump Must Be Faking the Three Recent Pregnancies In His Administration
—Ace
Second Lady (and "jeet," according to Tucker Carlson's friend Nick Fuentes) Usha Vance announced that she's pregnant.
She'll be the first Second Lady to give birth while in office in 150 years.
Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President J.D. Vance, has already made history in a few ways: she's the first person of color to become Second Lady and the youngest Second Lady since the Truman Administration. She may also soon be the first sitting Second Lady in modern history to bear a child in over 150 years.
"We're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy," the Vice President shared on social media Tuesday. "Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July."
In the message, the Vice President thanked military doctors for "[taking] excellent care of our family" and staff members "who do so much to ensure that we can serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with our children."
J.D., 41, and Usha, 40, met at Yale University and married in 2014. They have three kids: Ewan, 8; Vivek, 5; and Mirabel Rose, 4.
Before Usha Vance, the only sitting Second Lady in modern history to give birth was President Ulysses S. Grant's Vice President Schuyler Colfax's wife Ellen, who had a son in 1870; birth records before then are unclear.
The Trump White House extended its congratulatory message to the Vances, and in a post on X, called itself "The most pro-family administration in history!"
Vance, in particular, is an outspoken pro-natalist. He has sounded the alarm on declining birthrates, branded Democrats as "childless cat ladies" and "anti-family and anti-child," and called Americans' lack of desire to have children as a "civilizational crisis."
In May, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that she was pregnant with her second child. This will be the first child born to a sitting press secretary in history.
All of this was too much for leftwing women and their haunted vaginas filled with the ghosts of aborted babies, who decided this must be some kind of conspiracy.
Why, getting pregnant just isn't something women do! (It's what men do!)
This gay extremist claims he can prove that JD Vance and his wife had sex the day Charlie Kirk died. Pushing a Candace-Owens style conspiracy theory that everyone except gay furry psychopath Tyler Robinson was in on the plot.
According to his calculations, the date of conception was on Sept. 10, 2025 and the due date is between July 20th-31st, 2026. This means Usha Vance will be pregnant for 10 1/2 months. pic.twitter.com/sMDiC1WDER
Meet Lexie Lawler, a labor and delivery nurse at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital (@BaptistHealthSF). She says she hopes Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt suffers a severe 4th-degree tear during childbirth and has medical complications.
Medicaid Administrator Dr. Oz: We Tried to Investigate Fake Businesses Bilking the Taxpayers and We Were Followed, Harrassed, and Intimadated by a Gang of Somalis
—Ace
He doesn't say "Somalis," but it's implied by circumstances.
It seems systemic in its nature. The building that we visited together, Griggs building was a textile factory, became an office building. It's not a nice part of town. I wouldn't take my kids there to get cared for, frankly, do much else in business, but somehow they had 400. Medicaid, uh, offices doing business with Medicaid, charging almost $400 million to the taxpayer.
I think he means that there are 400 different "businesses" in the one building.
That means basically each of those business made a million dollars. You wouldn't walk in this building in the seedy part of Minneapolis. And so I suspect there might have been others who knew this was happening. Certainly, uh, collaborating with these folks, maybe even, I wonder, you know, folks who in the building, the neighborhood, I mean, someone knew.
Then you start getting into the broader issue. We just talked to whistleblowers, which is chilling. You see the retaliate, the, the re retaliatory tactics, the shuffling around of people who are trying to put their hands up and say, I see a problem. But at its very core, there has been a, a confusion about what it really means to work in healthy human services in Minnesota.
It's not a partnership with vendors. You are the regulator. It is your job to make sure there are limited opportunities that the fraud, the taxpayer, or if you create services, and these are Minnesota nice services and Minnesota nice people, services don't have a lot of guardrails. You know, you don't have to attest to very much.
You have to just say you're trying to do things. You don't have to put your name in any forms. It's hard to regulate that and then the people doing the regulations aren't comfortable doing it. What they found in this document is that the, the majority of folks didn't think they could do the job and in over half the cases there was suspicion.
There was rule, you know, reason for caution. Things didn't seem what, what they're supposed to be. That's half to more than half the cases from the state government's auditor telling us this. So anybody out there in the legislators, a average citizen, we were chased out of buildings by car, honking people, giving us the finger, you know, following us, following us, following us, trying to intimidate us.
Dr. Mehmet Oz (Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and Jim O'Neill (Deputy Sec. of HHS) explained how they were flipped off, followed, and their cars were surrounded while trying to investigate fraud at a building… pic.twitter.com/bIzLCTsAmS
A Somalian man named Mohamed Abdirashid Omarxeyd in Minnesota submitted 40,000 fraudulent healthcare claims allowing him to steal $3.2 million dollars from American taxpayers
A worker pulled the power cord from a computer as investigators tried to search it
"Guardian Home Health Services, submitted over 40,000 fraudulent claims for personal care assistance"
"When the office was being searched, another office worker pulled the power cord from his computer to prevent investigators from seeing the screen"
His company also submitted fake time sheets
Brazen pirates, emboldened by a state that is actually an accomplice in the theft of billions from hardworking US citizens.
A Somalian man named Mohamed Abdirashid Omarxeyd in Minnesota submitted 40,000 fraudulent healthcare claims allowing him to steal $3.2 million dollars from American taxpayers
A worker pulled the power cord from a computer as investigators tried to search it
I applied for benefits when I was going through chemo and homeless and a part of the process is to do an interview which was over the phone. The woman who "interviewed" me was Somali, couldn't speak conversational English and after 3 questions she hung up on me abruptly and denied my application.
I firmly believe that the Somali people working for the state diverted funds from needy people to their friends and family via denials of applications for non Somali people.
I am a nurse as well and I've got multiple stories of patient's and their friends and families that would enrage even the most level headed Minnesotans.
Palantir cofounder
“@elonmusk made a great point when I was involved as a kid at PayPal: whenever you turn off fraud or grift, the people who would scream the most were the fraudsters.” pic.twitter.com/n5Kstgr9p3
The most infamous foreign student activist against Israel and for Hamas at an American university could finally face deportation.
While the Trump administration has tried to deport Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil more than once, woke judges have interfered, and the Trump administration has agreed to follow their ridiculous demands on Khalil's behalf. But a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official indicated Wednesday evening that Khalil's destination after deportation is tentatively settled.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said on NewsNation's Katie Pavlich Tonight on Wednesday, "It looks like he'll go to Algeria. That's what the thought is right now." She followed up with a more widely applicable caution: "It's a reminder for those who are in this country on a visa or on a green card. You are a guest in this country -- act like it."
Importantly, the Trump administration accuses Khalil of committing fraud on his green card application. And, of course, the federal government can revoke a visa or green card from anyone who shows himself a threat to our national security by supporting foreign terrorist entities, or by deliberately riling up social unrest, as Khalil did. Residing and studying in America as a foreign national is a privilege, not a right.
Mahmoud Khalil is a citizen of Algeria, not the US. He cannot vote in NYC elections. He is a green card holder, but, per @StateDept@SecRubio, violates the terms of his status by supporting a U.S.-designated terrorist organization (Hamas) and lying on his application for… https://t.co/w9PIDNLahc
Meanwhile, the Democrat Traitor Media ran -- get this -- yet another psyop on the American public, claiming that DHS had arrested, or kidnapped, a five year old child.
The reality? They attempted to arrest the child's scumbag illegal father, who ran, abandoning the child to the cold. DHS took the kid in, because, with the scumbag father abandoning him, what are they going to do? Just leave the five year old on the street to open a Somali Day Care Center?
At @thedailybeast they waited **13** paragraphs into the piece — after dubbing the story a “New Low” — before letting their readers know that DHS said (WaPo above seems to have confirmed) that father abandoned his child and fled on foot. pic.twitter.com/PJzzsOOpQa
You would have no idea, as a casual reader of @ABC, that the child in question was abandoned by his fleeing father, and that’s why he was in the custody of ICE.
In more psyops from the Democrat Traitor Media: The Washington Post first claims that DHS is now deporting people "without a judicial warrant."
Later, they admit -- now that all the Gen Z'ers have clicked off the story -- that "immigration enforcement officials" are just signing the warrant for deportation after immigration judges have issued the final deportation order.
By the way: Have you wondered if ICE is running decoy operations to draw communists and terrorists away from their real operation?
Well, if you did, you're a smarty.
Blue Lives Matter
@bluelivesmtr
We're not saying that Blue Lives Matter was behind feeding false information to far-left, anti-ICE protestors.
We're not saying we had teams comprised of HUNDREDS of off-duty cops and veterans volunteer to run decoy operations so far-left activists THOUGHT they were conducting ICE raids.
We're not saying they were in fact they were just driving around in what appeared to be unmarked vehicles with tinted windows... drinking coffee and listening to Guns and Roses.... being chased down and surrounded by protestors.
What we ARE saying is that if it DID happen.... it sure worked remarkably well in NINE DIFFERENT STATES, allowing ACTUAL raids to successfully take place unimpeded, helping support the capture of HUNDREDS of criminals.
Combat veterans, off-duty officers and patriotic Americans have had enough of the radical left... and are being activated across the country to back our #lawenforcement. And they're smarter...more skilled... more driven... better trained than the left ... and actually enjoy sitting in a deer stand for days on end just waiting.
Dutch Progressives Forced 125 Young Students to Share a Hostel with 125 Migrants, Believing They Would "Learn from Each Other." What Was Taught Was Mostly Stabbings and Rapes.
Students were raped after being forced to live in complex alongside 125 refugees to 'aid integration': Terrified Dutch youngsters 'were subjected to years of sex assaults and violence'
By PERKIN AMALARAJ, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER
Terrified Dutch students made to live side-by-side with 125 refugees to aid their 'integration' were subjected to years of sexual assault and violence, an investigation has reported.
Stek Oost, located in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam, was sold to the Netherlands as the dream solution to the housing and refugee crisis.
A total of 125 students and 125 refugees would live alongside each other, and were even encouraged to 'buddy up' so the migrants would adapt to life in the Netherlands more quickly.
But students living there told Dutch investigative documentary programme Zembla they faced multiple sexual assaults, harassment, violence, stalking and even claimed a gang rape had taken place.
One woman said she would regularly see 'fights in the hallway and then again in the shared living room'.
A man told the programme that a refugee threatened him with an eight-inch kitchen knife.
And they claimed they were ignored despite filing multiple reports to authorities.
In one shocking case, a former resident said that a Syrian raped her after inviting her to his room to watch a film then refusing to let her leave.
The woman, identified only as Amanda, said: 'He wanted to learn Dutch, to get an education. I wanted to help him.'
Amanda described how he asked her several times to come to his room. She eventually relented and agreed to watch a film with him.
However, he soon made her uncomfortable and she asked to leave, only for him to trap her in his room and sexually abuse her.
Despite her filing a police report following the incident in 2019, police dropped the case due to a lack of evidence.
But just six months later, another woman living in Stek Oost raised the alarm over the Syrian, telling the housing association that runs the complex that she was concerned for the safety of herself and other women living there.
But the local authority, which had set up the arrangement, claimed it was impossible for the man to be evicted, the Zembla documentary claims.
It was only when he was formally arrested in March 2022 that he left the student-refugee complex. He was later convicted of raping Amanda and another resident, and was sentenced to just three years in prison in 2024.
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In another horrifying case reported by the programme, Stadgenoot, the firm that runs the complex, suspected a 'gang rape' took place in one of its flats the summer of 2023.
And the police just couldn't find any evidence of any crimes.
I think I've heard this story before.
Police told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf that while it was not aware of any gang rape taking place on the premises, it did say it had received seven reports of sexual assault.
Since opening in 2018, Stek Oost has faced multiple similar allegations. In 2022, Dutch TV station AT5 reported that a refugee had been accused of six sex attacks between 2018 and 2021.
He was involved in a protracted legal battle with local authorities, who fought to force him to leave Stek Oost.
For its part, Stadgenoot wanted to shut the complex down as early as 2023, but the local authority refused.
And speaking of the Netherlands: Trans lunatics fleeing Trump's Genocide have wound up in dirty refugee camps in the Netherlands. Along with Muslim "refugees."
Where I'm sure they're being treated with the level of respect and deference they demand.
Americans who fled to the Netherlands in a bid to escape the Trump administration are now living in filthy refugee camps, it has emerged.
According to Dutch immigration authorities, 76 US citizens claimed asylum in the country last year, a significant increase from the nine that did in 2024.
Many of those who have left are transgender or parents to transgender children and are housed in the 'queer block' of an overcrowded camp in the northern village of Ter Apel, The Guardian reported.
The camp, which resembles a prison, has guards stationed at every gate and offers less than desirable amenities.
Residents have complained that the tiny college-dorm-like rooms they are provided are covered in graffiti, with some alleging that they suspect bodily fluids have been smeared on the walls.
Asylum seekers are permitted to leave the camp, but must be present for daily bed checks. They are also given a small allowance so they can purchase food and cook meals in the communal kitchen.
Many of the American refugees are transgender and are seeking asylum after allegedly being victims of hostility and discrimination in their home states.
But the Dutch ministry of asylum and migration has so far deemed that the alleged mistreatment of the LGBTQ community in the US is not grounds for refugee status, according to The World.
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Elliot Hefty, 37, a transgender man seeking asylum in the Netherlands, claimed he decided to move after being attacked in the middle of a Kentucky street.
He told the World how a man pushed him to the ground during a lunchtime walk and yelled slurs at him, as 'I was left alone bleeding in the middle of the street.'
He also alleged that he was removed from his client-facing role with Medicaid after Trump assumed office, claiming that 'brown and visibly queer folks' are now only allowed to work in administration roles.
The Daily Mail was not able to independently verify Hefty's allegation but has contacted Medicaid for comment.
The 37-year-old further claimed that he was denied service at shops with owners saying that 'my "tranny money" was no good here.'
Actor and visual artist Veronica Clifford Carlos, 28, flew to Amsterdam in June last year to seek asylum after receiving daily death threats in San Francisco.
San Diego resident Jane Michelle Arc, 47, painted a similar picture, alleging that she was 'getting punched or pushed or shoved every single week' while walking the city streets.
Arc moved to the Netherlands in April after having been hospitalized for assault.
Gayle Carter-Stewart, who moved her transgender teen Nox to the country from Montana last April, said their asylum application was 'automatically rejected because America is considered a safe country of origin'
Ashe Wilde, 40, fled Massachusetts, which she admitted is 'one of the most liberal states' and a place where officials are working to 'preserve our identities across the queer spectrum.'
But she was still physically and verbally attacked in her community, telling the Guardian how she was dubbed a 'pedo and a groomer.'
Jack Smith Defends His Indefensible Political Witch-Hunt; Even CNN's Legal Analyst Admits Smith Is Guilty
—Ace
C3
@C_3C_3
Want your blood to boil?
The Jack Smith Investigation cost taxpayers over $35 million.
$35,000,000
All based on a scam.
Targeting enemies.
With 65% of that $35million paying their salaries.
Jack and his team got rich for sedition.
Brandon Gill grilled Jack Smith on three points:
1, why he had sought the phone records of the incoming Speaker of the House, extending back a year, when he had just become speaker 16 days earlier. This makes it look very much look like a purely political witch-hunt, as Johnson did not have power to run interference for Trump before hand.
2, why he sought these phone records in defiance of a warning from a Biden attorney that doing so would be a violation of the Speech and Debate Clause. (A clause which says that no member of Congress shall be subject to legal process for any statement they make in Congress (later extended to cover any statement they make outside of Congress, so long as it's part of their work as a congressman.)
3, why he claimed that Mike Johnson was a "flight risk" when he told Johnson's phone company to hide the fact that his records had been granted to a third party. Jack Smith claimed that keeping this secret was necessary to make sure that Johnson did not take flight from prosecution.
He now admits that Johnson was no flight risk.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
If you watch one moment from Jack Smith's testimony in Congress today, watch him get reduced to a stuttering, stammering mess when confronted with his own LIES:
GILL: "The subpoena covered the time period between November 2020 and January 2021. Is that right?"
SMITH: "Uh, I'm sorry, sir, could you say that again?"
GILL: "We're not gonna delay like this."
Jack Smith is asking to have questions re-asked because each congresman only has five minutes total time, and he wants to waste as much Republican time as possible endlessly repeating and clarifying questions.
GILL: "How many days after Kevin McCarthy was sworn in as Speaker did you subpoena his records?
SMITH: "Uh, I don't recall, but those two things had nothing to do with one another."
GILL: "It was 16 days after becoming the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, you subpoenaed his toll records. Do you agree that that might reasonably be considered a violation of the Speech or Debate Clause?"
SMITH: "Uh, I do not"
GILL: "At the time you, you secured those non-disclosure orders, was Speaker McCarthy a flight risk?"
SMITH: "He was not."
GILL: "He was not. Then why did your non-disclosure order refer to him as a flight risk? It says right here, 'The court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in flight from prosecution.' You were using clearly false information to secure a non-disclosure order to hide from Speaker McCarthy and from the American people the fact that you were spying on his toll records."
Jack Smith on why he attempted to bring Trump to trial without giving him sufficient time to read the millions of pages of documents disclosed to him: Gee I was just looking out for Trump's right to a speedy trial. I'm a hero!
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
3h
Rep. Onder just body slammed Smith on his effort to give Trump's legal team little time to read millions of pages of documents. Smith's response was that he wanted to be sure that Trump got a speedy trial, even though the Trump team was trying to slow down the trial to review his document dump...
Even CNN pointed out that Smith didn't even bother denying he rushed the case just to make a political impact:
Even CNN is now turning on Jack Smith after his House Judiciary testimony.
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig zeroed in on the moment Republicans cornered Smith over rushing the Trump case right before the 2024 election — and Smith had no answer.
If you remember, Jack Smith was improperly appointed, which means that the first eleven months of his term were conducted without proper authorization by the government, including the first three indictments of Trump.
Eleven months later, Merrick Garland attempted to correct this without admitting anything needed to be corrected. Jack Smith was appointed and sworn in a second time.
This Legal Eagle has a Biden-like memory loss about the details of this episode.
🔥HOO BOY: @Lancegooden might've just caught Jack Smith & former Attorney General Garland RED-HANDED!
GOODEN: "Would you agree that taking the oath of office is a legal requirement for the job that you had?"
SMITH: "I haven't researched whether it's required or not."
In one more bit of sedition by Jack Smith, he refused to answer questions about everyone's favorite phony-ass witness, Madison Cornbread.
Jordan confronted Smith with his own report that Madison Cornbread was a trash hearsay witness without any credibility, and so would not call her himself. No judge would accept her "testimony," he concluded.
The NY Times Researches Where American-Born Roofers Went, but Can’t Put the Obvious Puzzle Pieces Together
—Buck Throckmorton
The New York Times ran a piece a few days ago seeking to understand where all the American-born roofers went, struggling to understand how an industry that used to provide well-paying career jobs is now overwhelmingly staffed by poorly-paid “immigrants.”
There are not many pieces to this puzzle, and the Times successfully analyzes each of the pieces, but it somehow cannot put these few puzzle pieces together to provide the obvious conclusion. The reason, of course, is that American-born roofers, many of whom were unionized construction workers, were replaced by poorly paid illegal aliens providing off-the-books labor while also being denied benefits, health insurance, and compliance with labor laws.
Something I keep harping on is the war on labor expense in this country. Businesses obviously need to focus on cost control, including the cost of labor, but somewhere in recent decades, we have seen a dangerous mindset take hold. It has become widely accepted that pretty much any labor expense is too high, and if labor can’t be offshored to places with wages and work conditions below American standards, then illegal forms of chattel labor need to be imported into the U.S.
There were several recurring themes throughout this article, bullet-pointed below, but somehow the Times just couldn’t (or wouldn’t) acknowledge the obvious cause and effect:
• English-speaking American roofers are virtually non-existent nowadays.
• Illegal foreign labor was hired (through subcontractors and labor brokers) at much lower wages.
• Immigrant laborers are hard-working and to be celebrated.
• Immigrant workers are ruthlessly exploited.
• Roofers’ wages have eroded, and are no longer a career wage.
• Builders are suffering a labor shortage, due to Donald Trump’s closed border and deportation policies.
• Construction / roofing is a job that Americans just won’t do any longer.
• Without unions, working conditions have eroded.
Although the link to the Times is behind a paywall, the entire article was republished at the Seattle Times, and it can be read here: “Where Did All the American-Born Roofers Go?”
I cannot quote the whole thing, but here are a few snippets:
First, construction jobs became less desirable, as eroding wages and working conditions diminished the quality and job security of the profession.
Why did the wages erode? Why did working conditions erode?
Only then did immigrants, with the encouragement of the political and business class, fill a gap that was already opening.
The sequence of “immigrants” taking those jobs seems to be out of order. By hiring off-the-books “immigrants” at below market wages, construction jobs became less desirable.
Most of those foreign-born workers are not naturalized citizens, and many lack permanent legal status. That leaves an industry of 6.8 million workers particularly vulnerable to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort.
Translation: There are up to 6.8 million poorly paid illegal aliens working construction jobs in the U.S.
Builders are reporting labor shortages as some workers are detained or deported and others stay home amid immigration raids.
If only there was another potential labor pool aside from non-citizens who are in this country illegally…
When [Matthew] Moore started his career, unionized construction was a good living, especially for workers without a college degree. In 1973, a quarter of workers were unionized, and in construction it was 40%. But those numbers were already starting to decline.
I spent much of my life criticizing unions, but my gripe was always when unions wanted high compensation for not working (e.g. early retirement with benefits, idled workers getting paid, etc). I never begrudged them wanting good compensation for the work they performed. But if union labor was too expensive, the alternative was to offer competitive non-union jobs. Instead, the construction industry chose to pursue illegal foreign labor that was well below-non-union construction wages.
What was happening in California was happening across the country, both in states with a strong union presence, such as Illinois, Massachusetts and New York, and those that prohibited mandatory union membership — “right to work” states such as Arizona, Florida and Texas where the population, and housing production, was booming.
Yep. It wasn’t about the unions. Non-unionized construction workers were displaced too.
And with that decline in union strength came a decline in the economic standing for both union and nonunion workers. In 1973, the average union construction worker made $1.71 for every $1 the average American worker earned hourly. Today, unionized construction workers earn $1.15 for every $1 an average worker earns. And nonunion construction workers make just 86 cents for every dollar earned by the average American worker, often without health or retirement benefits.
Not only did construction pay effectively get halved by replacing Americans with “immigrants,” but it is well understood that the current system provides layers of contracting to deflect accountability for the inherent illegality of the construction labor system.
[Mariano] Martinez had arrived in the United States on the cusp of a major immigration boom. Workers interviewed for this article who crossed illegally during that period described a southern border that was more porous, even as barriers were going up. With the help of smugglers, many managed to get across on foot or in vehicles. In a common practice that continues today, builders avoided knowingly hiring workers lacking permanent legal status by keeping laborers off their payrolls and instead hiring subcontractors or labor brokers who employed the workers.
And again, it’s not just the pay, it’s also the lack of benefits and worker protections. Illegal laborers have no rights and no ability to redress illegal exploitation.
By then, the high demand for housing and fewer worker protections had led to tough working conditions. For Mario, 47, who first came to the United States in 1997 from Morelia, Mexico, as a teenager, roofing paid better than picking cucumbers and bell peppers, but it wasn’t easy. Mario was an adult by the time he started roofing, but many roofers living in the country illegally are minors, doing one of the deadliest jobs in the country usually without health insurance.
Illegal minors working off the books without health insurance is an extremely disturbing thing that has been accepted by “pro-immigration” Democrats and “pro-business” Republicans. There is no amount of empathy or profit that mitigates this level of exploitation.
Yet builders still feel that they are paying too much…
Immigrants who held onto their jobs say they have seen no meaningful wage gains in decades, and are still making today what they made before the Great Recession.
There is much more along these same lines, focusing on the current shortage of construction workers, but I’ve extracted enough to make the point. To fill that construction labor shortage, here’s an idea - how about once again hiring legal Americans at wages that can provide for a home and a family. If new home prices go up a little, so be it. But remember, home prices never went down when builders started subcontracting out to illegal labor at extremely low wages.
Roofing used to provide a career wage, and was heavily unionized in some places. As you read this piece, it becomes quite clear why unions held appeal to American roofers. Illegal laborers cannot object to unsafe conditions, no benefits, and no labor laws to abide by.
If the alternative to unionized labor is off-the-books, illegal labor, then unions are the ethical choice. But those don’t need to be the only options. There is a third option – hire legitimate, legal, non-union, American labor.
Several emergency declarations have already been issued as a massive winter storm barrels toward more than 35 states, putting more than 200 million people in its path and threatening “considerable disruption” across the US.
Texas, Georgia and the Carolinas were the first to issue preemptive emergency declarations after the National Weather Service warned that “nearly everyone east of the Rockies” will be affected by snow, ice, or cold from Friday into early next week.
The potentially historic winter storm, dubbed Winter Storm Fern, is expected to span more than 2,000 miles, putting more than 200 million people at risk of crippling snow and travel chaos starting Thursday night.
Please be safe, avoid traveling unless absolutely necessary and take all appropriate precautions, especially if you live in an area that typically does not experience severe/extreme winter conditions and you and your vehicles aren't used to dealing with it.
Vice President JD Vance doesn’t believe there’s a need to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota for the time being, he told The Daily Wire on Thursday. Vance touched down in Minneapolis, meeting with federal immigration officers to assess the chaos on the ground. For weeks following the fatal shooting of an ICE watch activist, left-wing agitators have followed federal agents arresting illegal immigrants across the Twin Cities trying to thwart their actions.
Given the incitement and the loud proclamations of Democrat leaders from Walz to Frey and Pritzker and others that they will refuse to cooperate with ICE and other Federal Law enforcement officials in enforcing our laws to protect our sovereignty and citizenry, by virtually ordering their own police forces to physically confront and thwart their efforts. If that is not a green light for the Democrat Party's organized or even lone wolf street thugs and brain damaged fools to physically attack ICE officers . . then I now give you this massive dog-whistle cum Fuhrer Befehl declaring open season on ICE agents.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wildly suggested that residents can open fire on masked ICE agents if they feel their life is in danger under the state’s self-defense laws.
The Democrat, in a sit-down with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik, warned that Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they believe they’re in imminent danger, could become a “recipe for disaster” if protesters clash with immigration officers.
“It’s kind of a recipe for disaster because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks,” Mayes said in the Monday interview, calling ICE “very poorly trained.” “And we have a Stand Your Ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.” A flabbergasted Resnik repeatedly challenged Mayes, cautioning that her remarks could be interpreted as a “license” to residents to shoot a federal agent. She shot back that she was merely stating a “fact,” not encouraging violence.
“If you’re being attacked by someone who is not identified as a peace officer — how do you know?” the state’s top prosecutor pressed, adding that “real cops don’t wear masks.”
“I mean if somebody comes at me wearing a mask, by the way, I’m a gun owner, and I can’t tell whether they’re a police officer, what am I supposed to do? No, I’m not suggesting people pull out their guns, but this is a don’t tread on me state.”
The attorney general, who was elected in 2022, unleashed her jaw-dropping comments as immigration officers begin to spread into parts of the Grand Canyon State.
. . . She vowed to prosecute any ICE agent who violates state laws after operations in Minnesota sparked widespread unrest when an federal officer fatally shot protester Renee Nicole Good when she clipped him with her car during a heated confrontation on Jan. 7.
Arizona GOP Rep. David Schweikert blasted the attorney general, calling her rhetoric “reckless.”
To conservatives, it might appear at first blush that these anti-ICE radicals and DNC Commiecrats are all about the F word. It seems to reflect unimaginable rage and irrational hysteria relating to an issue about which the radicals are so passionate that all reasonable expression is abandoned. Don’t be lulled into believing, though, that the beginning and end of these incoherent, obscene rants is that they’re suffering from some serious lack of creative expression or a mind-wiping anger. It’s more than that.
They have a mission beyond the superficial rage they would have us focus on. . . When the left protests, there’s more than rage or frustration. There’s seething enmity. We saw it with the Pussy March when Trump was first elected, during the impeachments and prosecutions levied against him, during the George Floyd/BLM/DEI protests, and now with the ICE insanity.
Every time a congressional Commiecrat, the governor of a blue state, or the mayor of a blue city speaks, bile drips out all over. Journalists and talk show hosts spew their anti-anything American venom daily and with impunity. Don Lemon did it at the church invasion in Minnesota and then brazenly lied and hid behind his immunity as a “journalist” and the fact that he is a gay, black man. Do I hear Jussie Smollett, anyone?
It’s more than rage about the issues or mental illness, prescription meds, weed, or street drugs driving the behavior. It’s even more than demonic possession. Again, these are the things they want us to perseverate on, while they pursue their mission: a collective determination to destroy.
It’s easy to think of our Commiecrats as zombie-like, reacting in lockstep, converging on something en masse, walking in hordes over cliffs and into raging rivers. The impression they give is that they’re not responsible for their actions. That lets them off too easily. . . They don’t do this merely out of rage about an issue but because it is the only path to revolution and cannot be brought about by polite debate and collegial cooperation. . . They don’t need the facts or stats, logic, or reasoning to accomplish their goals. Just a place to compulsively and convulsively shout “F you” while destroying everything in their way—not just buildings and property, but love of country, American culture, and resilience—courageously remaking this nation as they believe it should be, as Obama once said.
So, when you hear a Karen ranting, “F you,” it’s not anger about the American Dream slipping away, but about the fury needed for their Marxist Utopian Dream. And make no mistake: they relish in that fury. If you doubt me, listen to Minnesota Church Stormer-in-Chief William Kelly rant about death threats against him, inviting people to “Go ahead, kill me...because...you can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the Revolution.”
As tensions rise in Minneapolis and other sanctuary cities and ICE officers confront violent protestors in the line of duty, some teachers are indoctrinating their students to believe the left’s woke narratives—even when they are demonstrably false.
At Manson Northwest Webster High School in Iowa, a language arts teacher, identified by other outlets as Kim Keller, was caught in an audio recording delivering a virulent partisan diatribe to her class in which she accused ICE agents of murdering Renee Nicole Good—and told her students they would likely be next.
The teacher begins by scolding her class for allegedly laughing at TikTok videos about the incident: “Then why are you laughing? Because that is what is happened [sic]. And if you do not process that, you need to process that right now.”
The angry tirade that follows is full of misrepresentations and outright lies.
The school is not on the Upper West Side of Mamdani's Manhattan but in Iowa. Trouble in River City folks.
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The backlash to the supposed Republican renaissance and sweeping cultural conservative agendas is here. . . Across the country, the jargon of wokeness invented on campuses is spilling back out into the broader culture again, much like it did in 2020. . . The truth is, the right declared victory too early. Wokeness never died. . . It’s the weed that grows back stronger. We ignore it at our own peril. Woke never really died, it’s coming back with a vengeance — and we should be terrified
It’s not that lefts are angry, incoherent dimwits (although many are). However, for most, rage is their power source, and their goal is America’s destruction. The True Meaning Behind All The Rage
Radical leftist former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, and his protege and current Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum have both publicly embraced the concept of reconquista and actively discouraged Mexican Americans, much less Mexicans illegally present in the United States, from assimilating or in any way embracing American identity, the book reveals. Officials under both presidencies have declared illegal immigrants who send remittances home “heroes” and champion propaganda songs that celebrate rejecting American identity. SHOCK CONFESSION: Mexican President Admits That Mass Migration Is a Tool to Reclaim and Conquer America’s Southwest
“Our efforts were not aimed at interfering with authorities...The Chicago Chief of Patrol told police officers en route to help the ICE agents to stand down...This is not an action movie...Crime in Memphis fell by 41 percent.” How Pro-Immigrant Activism Turned Dangerous
With four murders and several other shootings, the year is not starting out well for Macon, Georgia. Yet Another Macon Murder-Funeral
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The European Union on Monday unveiled an "anti-racism" plan that presses member states to censor online "hate speech" and adopt an "intersectional approach" to "structural racism." The plan, which also calls for training on "unconscious bias" and "microaggression," is likely to intensify the Trump administration’s diplomatic fusillade against European hate speech laws. It also illustrates the degree to which American racial politics have been exported to the European Union. European Union Doubles Down on ‘Hate Speech’ Censorship in New ‘Anti-Racism’ Strategy
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Robert Zimmerman: "What must be understood about Mann is that he is a very typical leftist radical, who thinks that because his cause is just and good, he is somehow immune from any consequences for bad behavior. Such leftists increasingly believe they are allowed to lie, cheat, defame, and even sometimes commit violence, because anyone who disagrees with them is evil. Mann did not do the last item (though many other leftists now are), but he did all the others, and truly believed he could get away with it. He is now finding out otherwise. Fake scientist Michael Mann slapped down hard by DC superior court
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) were suing Trump’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) over a freeze on $27.5 million worth of Title IX family planning grants to Planned Parenthood. The Trump administration, however, quietly restored the grants, prompting the ACLU and NFPRHA to drop their lawsuit. EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood Asks Trump Admin Not To Refund Them
As with all conspiracy theories, anything that fails to prove the “truth” — especially anything that debunks it — just becomes more proof of the plotters’ reach: The believers will never be convinced otherwise. You’ll never guess what the new Epstein scandal is
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Hunt, who is vying in a brutal three-way Texas Senate primary, was absent while House Republicans advanced a rule teeing up votes on four appropriations bills, including a measure funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Though House Republicans did not end up needing Hunt’s vote to advance the funding bills, GOP leadership has voiced irritation about the Senate hopeful’s frequent absences while he campaigns ahead of the March 3 primary. ‘Expected Him To Be Here’: Mike Johnson Stunned Rep. Wesley Hunt Was Missing For Key House Vote
The contrast between the international assemblage of sophisticates and the president from Queens brings onto a global stage one of the longest-running dramas in American political history. Mastering the forces unleashed by Jacksonian America is the key not only to Trump's presidential success, but also to the preservation and renewal of the American-led international order. If the announced agreement with NATO secretary general Mark Rutte holds, this act in the drama will end on a high note. Andrew Jackson Comes to Davos
Fred Fleitz: European leaders panicked over imaginary Trump crises, only to be outflanked at Davos as he exposed their failures, calmed Greenland fears, and seized the global stage. Trump Owned Davos
The Beijing-controlled puppet government in Hong Kong began a trial under China’s tyrannical “national security law” on Thursday for the leaders of a group that organized candlelight vigils in memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. China Prosecutes Hongkongers Who Mourned Tiananmen Square Massacre (Truman failed when he prevented Macarthur from crossing the Yalu and driving all the way to Peking to skin Mao alive - jjs)
How much influence does the deep-pocketed Gulf country hold in America? Qatar as Daddy Warbucks
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“President Trump’s historic Rural Health Transformation Program could not come at a more urgent time,”. . . “After years of targeting and neglect under the Biden administration, across the United States, hospitals are entering a systemic distress cycle that is visible in financial markets before doors close to patients. In 2025 alone, at least 90 hospitals have experienced credit rating downgrades, service eliminations, or full closures. These distress events reveal a patterned, multi-signal collapse with credit downgrades often preceding a loss of essential services.” Exclusive — Report: Rural Hospital Closures, Downgrades Represent ‘National Health Access Emergency’ Trump Can Fix
What causes these gullies remains an open question. ... More recent research suggests they are formed by the seasonal dry ice frost cycle that in the high latitudes has carbon dioxide condense to fall as snow in autumn and then sublimate away in the spring. New gullies on Mars?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
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Though to be fair Intel showed off new consumer products at CES when AMD and Nvidia couldn't be bothered, and the integrated graphics on Intel's latest Panther Lake chips looks to be faster than AMD's fastest mainstream models (though slower than the Ryzen AI Max if you use it for gaming and not AI.)
Basically it's obfuscating your typing patterns to block side-channel attacks. Though your data is encrypted, if it just sends one packet each time you press a key a lot can be inferred from the timing.
Companies affected include Discord, Tinder, Riot Games, and Dropbox. With this attack you can receive spam from their official Zendesk servers even if you're not a customer.
Faced with queries from real professionals, even the best models struggled to get more than a quarter of the questions right. The vast majority of the time, the model came back with a wrong answer or no answer at all.
It can't replace junior programmers and it can't replace anyone else.
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - January 22, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! The time for the Thursday ONT has arrived. If you're a Moron's Moron, you are in luck tonight! Lots of right-in-the -wheelhouse content tonight. Won't ya step inside and check it out?
Big snow storm approaching the east coast. Even Florida was hit with a cold spell recently.
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Perhaps an unknown stipulation in the AOSHQ users' manual - If something qualifies for both the Food Thread AND the Gun Thread, it automatically becomes ONT material. (This may or may not be true, but thus far, I am not aware of Ace having implemented Community Notes).
Zach Clark isn’t the first person to ever try using a potato as a gun silencer, but he recently became the first to have it legally approved as a silencer by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). He reportedly did it to point out the absurdity of the law that allowed him to do it, a law that now allows anyone to submit their own silencer designs, regardless of how crazy they might be.
“It’s a good way to highlight to normal people that like, ‘Yeah, this is dumb. ‘This whole law is kind of dumb,” Clark told The Reload. “There are other people who have talked about submitted forms for pillows. One is particularly funny because, for the documentation, it’s just a picture of Mike Lindell holding a My Pillow. People have submitted forms for Monster Energy cans. So, there are definitely a lot of people who are going that angle.”
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“Serial number Samwise01 was denied, but Tate001 and Tate002 were approved,” Zach Clark said. “It happened with some of my 3D-printed suppressors, too. I had three that were denied that used the exact same documentation as the other 40 that were approved. So who knows? I’m assuming with what’s going on at the ATF right now, they’re just flying through them. So, there might not even be a thought process. The person could just be clicking, yes, no, because there’s chaos over there.”
OK, fess up - which one of you did this??
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Ginger vs Mary Ann. How old are you? Ongoing AOSHQ themes converge!
Your humble host is 100% in the Mary Ann camp!
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Food Thread Adjacent
If this isn't Moron level behavior, I don't know what is!
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“My girlfriend got on to me the other day because she doesn’t understand why I can’t just pick eggs out of the carton like a “normal” person. She’s standing there watching me and says, “Why can’t you just go row by row like everyone else?”
I said, “Because no egg should ever know when its time is coming.”
She stared at me for a second, shook her head, and said, “You’re a psycho,” then walked off.
Little does she know…I’ve got a whole tournament system going on. I take two eggs, tap them together, and whichever one doesn’t crack moves on to the next round.
Only the strongest survive. 🥚 💪 😂”
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Obviously I'm horrified at these woke Socialist Oligarchs using their corporate fiduciary power to push their personal political agendas -- the power of the corporation is meant to be wielded for the benefit of shareholders, not the woke cocksuckers sitting in the corner suites -- but I don't know if someone has a legal right to someone else's business.
Then again, these are banks, one of the most regulated industries in the world. It's very likely the left has cluttered the US code with all sorts of "fairness in banking" regulations.
President Donald Trump on Thursday, Jan. 22, sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion, accusing the bank of dropping Trump as a client for political reasons after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The lawsuit, which Trump had threatened for days, was filed in state court in Florida as Trump returns from Davos, Switzerland, where he attended the World Economic Forum.
I find this problematic:
"Plaintiffs are confident that JPMC's unilateral decision came about as a result of political and social motivations, and b>JPMC's unsubstantiated, 'woke' beliefs that it needed to distance itself from President Trump and his conservative political views," the lawsuit reads. "In essence, JPMC debanked Plaintiffs' Accounts because it believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so."
See, the problem is that JP Morgan will argue that it was good for the corporation to "distance itself" from Trump. Corporations get away with doing a lot of political crap -- which should be ultra vires, against the compact that created and governs the corporation -- by calling it "goodwill."
If a lefty CEO wants to donate to BLM -- obviously not something in the interest of the shareholders -- he can justify it by saying it creates public goodwill for the corporation, and therefore actually does benefit the shareholders, albeit indirectly. And judges rarely second-guess CEOs about their "goodwill" decision making. (They ought to, because CEOs use corporations to vindicate their personal agendas, but judges stay hands-off to allow corporations to donate huge amounts of money to the repulsive left.)
And I'm afraid that Trump, by stating in his own filing that JP Morgan felt it had to "distance itself" from him due to the "political tide at the moment," has made JP Morgan's defense for it.
NEW: Multiple sources tell me & colleague @davidspunt that the federal magistrate in Minnesota who refused to sign off on an arrest warrant for Don Lemon is Douglas L. Micko and that his wife works as an Assistant Attorney General in Minnesota AG Keith Ellison's office.
Stephen Miller
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Everyone serious understands that the justice system is rigged. Far-left prosecutors, magistrates, judges and juries unhesitatingly shield their violent activists and gleefully imprison their political opponents. Unrigging the system is necessary for the survival of the Republic.
Apparently William Kelly, the asshole "Da Woke Farmer" who yelled profanities at church-goers and dared Pam Bondi "come get me," claims to be some kind of veteran.
This guy says, Nah.
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William Kelly, better known as DaWokeFarmer, got booted from the U.S. Army with a bad-conduct discharge.
He was in from about 2007 to 2011, but his stories don't add up--no combat infantry vet, no Afghanistan deployment, no Warrant Officer gig.
Reality check: He was just an HR admin (MOS 42A), zero combat or overseas action.
Back in 2008, court-martialed for stealing, which led to:
- Dropped to Private (E-1).
- That punitive BCD, basically "other than honorable" with major baggage.
Dude fabricates his military record, he's a proven thief, and an alcoholic on top.
Yet this is the fraud the left loves to elevate. Wake up, folks. #StolenValor #Exposed
Tucker Carlson: I condemn America for ending the war with Japan by dropping two nuclear weapons because they are inherently evil, actually they're "demonic" and literally created by demonic forces, and no one should have them.
"I can guarantee you that if the Ayatollah gets a nuclear weapon, he will use it," Lindsey Graham said on Fox News last year. "I believe that with all my heart and soul."
Oh, and of course, there's warmonger-in-chief Benjamin Netanyahu, who insists that "there is only one difference between Nazi Germany and the Islamic Republic of Iran... [Iran] is first seeking atomic weapons and, once it has them, will then start a world war."
What are the chances Iran would actually launch a nuclear attack? History suggests they're zero, no matter what Senator Graham says.
Weird, because he's about to tell you Iranian nukes could be used to pressure Israel to leave the poor Palestinian peace-lovers alone. Why would the warmongering Jews leave them alone unless they knew Iran might nuke them?
No country in the so-called 'Axis of Evil' has ever deployed a nuke, because doing so would be an act of suicide.
In fact, the United States is the only nation to unleash its nuclear might as an act of war. It's strange how Washington considers that a point of pride.
There he is, attacking America for dropping the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima again.
Weirdly enough, he thinks that nuclear missiles in the hands of the Ayatollah would bring peace and justice to the region:
Could the Iranians obtaining The Bomb wind up being a good thing? Whether anyone in the foreign policy establishment admits it, North Korea's nuclearization has undeniably stabilized the Korean Peninsula. The region has seen no wars, coups, or interventionist-forced regime changes since 2006.
Oh, it's also good that North Korea has nukes.
Would Iran becoming a nuclear power have the same effect on its region?
Could it finally prompt America to leave the area alone, and incentivize Israel to drop its stated goal of controlling the Gaza Strip and the West Bank? Would it make the Iranian government less oppressive because it wouldn't have to worry about the West's constant decapitation ambitions?
🚨 Michael Fanone got completely demolished in today’s hearing. He lost control of his emotions repeatedly and every outburst made it clear why January 6th spiraled the way it did.
His testimony was supposed to prove a point but it only exposed his inability to handle pressure… pic.twitter.com/NCARtmEIPZ
While Fanone screams about Republicans failing to support his bent-over faggot-ass enough, he also is calling for vigilantes to literally shoot and murder ICE agents.
Michael Fanone, the former Jan. 6 Metro DC police officer who became a left-wing activist and Democrat Party booster, says in an interview that people need to riot and arm themselves to kill federal law enforcement agents. pic.twitter.com/mNGD7BhGqb
Democrats can't make up their minds about whether or not they're giving illegal welfare benefits to illegals. On one hand, they want their illegal voters' votes, so they'll take credit for giving them welfare illegally.
On the other hand, they don't want native American citizens to know they're stealing their money to give it to foreign invaders, so in the very next breath they're denying what they just took credit for a minute ago.
Gavin Newsom literally this morning:
NEWSOM: "I'm proud of [giving illegals medicaid benefits]... we're one of 16 states to provide care to people regardless of their immigration status."pic.twitter.com/kAdZL2hOyNhttps://t.co/MCkRVXPuAg
Murders plummeted more than 20% in U.S. last year, the largest drop on record, study shows
Murders plummeted more than 20% in 2025 from the year before, the single-largest one-year drop on record -- and it might be the lowest murder rate in the U.S. since 1900, a study released Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice found.
The annual crime trends report analyzed data from 40 large cities across the United States for 13 different crime types, including murder, carjacking, theft and drug offenses.
Note that the numbers were cooked under Biden, with carjacking, theft, and various other crime numbers fraudulently reduced, so the real fall from 2023 and 2024 is actually must greater.
Alongside homicides, which dropped 21% from 2024, carjackings have declined 61% since 2023, while shoplifting is down 10% since 2024.
Probably just due to stores in cities closing to stop the rampant, government-permitted looting.
In general, the overall crime rate declined, with violent crimes at or below levels seen in 2019, the analysis found -- drug offenses were the only category that rose during this period, while sexual assault remained even.
Researchers pointed toward multiple reasons for the large drop in homicides, but cautioned that "identifying decisive factors with certainty is challenging."
LOL, of course, no "researcher" can possibly figure out why the murder rate should drop at the same time we're locking people up and deporting foreign marauders.
Must be an environmental factor. Like maybe people are eating less eggs or something.
Senior research specialist Ernesto Lopez, lead author of the report, said that while the "overall reduction in crime, especially homicide, is welcome news," he noted homicide rates had been steadily dropping since the late 2000s, prior to a notable spike in 2020.
"It is possible that these rates reflect a longer-term downward trend punctuated by periods of elevated homicides," Lopez said.
Insane. I mentioned this on Friday, I think, but "years of steadily dropping" (after the Biden Crime Wave peak) doesn't explain a sudden single-year 20% plummet.
"Steadily declining" means "falling 3-4% per year." This minor trend does not explain the huge fall.
A group of criminal justice experts convened by CCJ had varied answers as to what caused such a precipitous drop in homicides, but they were generally in agreement that the stabilization of routines, an influx of COVID-19 relief funds and program intervention were strong drivers.
Oh of course -- it wasn't enforcement, imprisonment, and deportation which lowered murders by one-fifth, it was, of course, liberal government spending.
This must be due to Liberal Government Spending as well:
Trump's Second Term Sees Record ICE Gang Arrests and Crime Drop
20 hours ago
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement targeted violent offenders from groups like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, with the FBI disrupting 1,800 gangs--a 210% jump from 2024--and making 67,000 total arrests. These efforts aligned with a 20% national drop in murders, the sharpest ever, as preliminary data showed homicides potentially at 1960s lows in major cities. While DHS credited removing dangerous criminals, including nearly 3 million illegal immigrants who left the U.S., analysts noted two-thirds of ICE arrests involved people without U.S. criminal records, and critics pointed to broader post-pandemic trends.
-25,000 violent crime arrests, up 100% from last year -6,000 child victims identified or located, up 22% -Espionage arrests up 35% -Fentanyl seizures up 31% -Nihilistic Violent Extremism arrests up 490%
Another Church Disrupting Water Buffalo Arrested Update: Loud-Mouthed, Foul-Mouthed Bearded Jerkoff Arrested Too, After Telling Pam Bondi "Come Get Me"
—Ace
Insurrectionist mayor Jacob Frey has refused to condemn the church intimidation, now demands that the ringleader be freed to eat all of our food:
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🚨 BREAKING -- ANOTHER PERP WALK: Chauntyll Louisa Allen has officially been charged with CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE RIGHTS due to her role in the St. Paul Church riots
The ringleader, Nekima Levy Armstrong, was also arrested this morning.
They're in federal custody at the direction of @AGPamBondi
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NEXT UP: Don Lemon?! 😏
Physical ugliness and morbid obesity are contributing factors to radical extremism in women.
That's not a joke. It's an insult, but it's seriously meant: No one whose prom night was a dream winds up in antifa.
As I have said over and over and over again, the biggest threat to this country right now is the ongoing left-wing judicial insurrection against the rule of law, and the abject refusal of Republican representatives to do anything about it.
This guy reports that not only are the feds going to charge every single church disruptor, but they'll be going through texts and emails to find co-conspirators who did not show up for the invasion but who conspired to make it happen.
And remember, "conspiracy" only requires agreement that a felony should be committed by someone who's part of the conspiracy.
They used that a lot to lock up not J6ers but merely people in text chains with J6ers.
So let justice be done here equally.
That might be how they wind up getting Don Lemon -- maybe a leftwing judge can claim he was a "journalist" when in the church, but if he's taking part in the planning, then he's a co-conspirator.
Update 2: Federal law enforcement tells me that every person who entered that church is getting a warrant and that they are also using phone records to add conspiracy charges on top of everything else.
(I specifically asked about Don Lemon; haven’t heard back yet lol)
Another one bites the dust: Chauntyll Louisa Allen, St. Paul school board parasite and professional chaos merchant, just got federally indicted for CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE RIGHTS.
Her crime? Helping orchestrate the sacrilegious invasion of Cities Church...storming a house of God mid-service, terrorizing worshippers, screaming in their faces, all because the pastor dares to serve his country with ICE.
And the high priestess of this blasphemous mob, Nekima Levy Armstrong...self-anointed civil rights queen, race-hustling attorney, the venomous ringleader who planned and executed the whole disgusting spectacle...hauled out in cuffs this morning.
Federal custody. No soft landing. No media bailout.
Just cold steel and the long-overdue taste of consequences.
These people aren't activists.
They're domestic terrorists in activist drag.
They psychologically crave the thrill of domination...invading sacred spaces, silencing prayer, bullying the faithful because it feeds their bloated egos and fragile power fantasies.
They thought churches were fair game, that worshippers had no rights worth protecting.
They needed to believe their cause sanctified any violation. That delusion just got shattered by federal indictments.
You feel it?
That's justice finally sharpening its blade after years of deliberate dulling. No more free passes for the approved class of agitators.
No more looking away while they desecrate what others hold holy.
Keep. The. Motherfucking. Arrests. Coming.
Every last one of them. Round up the whole mob.
Apply the law with lethal evenness...no selective mercy, no political favoritism.
The same statutes that protected their protests now protect the churchgoers they terrorized.
Beautiful symmetry.
And don't stop there.
Next up: Don fucking Lemon and every smug, riot-apologist ghoul who spent years cheering this kind of intimidation from the safety of their studios.
Drag them in too. Make them explain why disrupting worship is "speaking truth to power" when they do it, but "insurrection" when anyone else dares.
The great correction is underway.
The era of unequal justice is bleeding out.
And it feels ***damn glorious.
And it's not just wallflower women attracted to radical leftwing politics, of course. You also have heartbreaker Alpha Chads like this potential David French bedroom visitor:
How are these real people
It blows my mind that people like this even exist tbh
WATCH: Don Lemon has an EPIC crash out over @NICKIMINAJ-- calling her a "racist bigoted homophobe," an "ignorant pick me" and says he would burn her records.
Sorry, Don, but you're an irrelevant, washed up TV anchor while Nicki Minaj is one of the biggest stars in the world. pic.twitter.com/fuVPibjoqx
As you all know, the very gay low-IQ retard Don Lemon, whose busted-up broke-out asshole resembles the Bikini Atoll during the 1960s H-bomb tests, has a major, major problem with women.
Don Lemon on CNN about Nikki Haley:
“A woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s, 30s, and maybe 40s.”
"Don Lemon does not like women — in particular, strong women ... He’s so friggin’ bananas and hateful that even CNN fired him — which says a heck of a lot."
Podcast: CBD and Sefton talk about insurrection in MN coming to NYC? Trump's Greenland rhetoric was over the top, the Gaza Peace Panel is anything but, Minnesota churchgoers need to step up, and is it possible that if the Persian people toss out the Mullahs they will begin a Muslim reformation?
Long-time Coblogger and commenter "Niedermeyer's Dead Horse" is having significant health issues, and would appreciate the thoughts and prayers of The Horde. If you wish to reach out, use @NiedsG on X/Twitter. [CBD]
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JUST IN - DOJ investigating Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for conspiracy to impede immigration agents -- CBS
Podcast: CBD and Sefton chat about the end game in Iran, what to do about the Fed, its supposed "independence," and its hyper-politicized chairman, the housing crunch, and Trump's harebrained suggestion to decrease credit card interest!
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, and an always interesting observer of the human and political condition, has died. RIP. [CBD]
Tousi TV: France closes embassy in Tehran, US Department of State advises all US citizens to get out of Iran He's been saying that Tuesday will be a decisive day. Other reports say that Trump is in the last stages of planning an action against the mullahs. (And other reports say that Tucker Carlson Simp JD Vance is attempting to get Trump to agree to "negotiations" with Iran -- for fucking what? What do we get out of saving the fucking mullahs and letting them kill and torture their own people? Apart from Tucker Carlson getting to pretend he's a Big Man Influencer and that he's worth all the Qatari money he's receiving.)
Asmongold predicted that AWFLs would turn on immigration the moment we started importing hot women into the country, and he was right via garrett
