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Surgeons Removed His Cancers and Saved His Life. He, a "Transgender," Is Now Suing the Doctors for Having Questions About His Fake Gender.
—Ace
The transgender decided to make trouble by secretly recording the medical staff during his surgery so he could hear if the surgeons Failed to Correctly Gender Him when they were saving his life.
They did correctly gender him -- they called him a man, which he was and is and always will be. And at least part of this discussion was medically necessary, because his patient file stated, falsely, that he was a woman, whereas the correct designation was "transgender female." It actually matters whether you're a man or woman for diagnosis and treatment -- for example, if you're a man, you don't need a pregnancy test and the doctors can rule out lots of things that only affect women, or they can deprioritize testing for diseases and syndromes that affect women much more frequently than they do men.
The Times will eventually acknowledge that -- after first ginning up sympathy for this malignant ingrate.
The transgender found that the surgeons and nurses discussing his actual biological sex as they were operating on him and saving his life intolerable, and is now suing because he says that pretending to be a woman makes him feel "pretty" and helps his psychological health, and surgeons and nurses discussing his actual sex made him feel un-pretty.
As usual, substitute "he" for "she" in this article, and read "woman" as "fake woman."
Jennifer Capasso, a 42-year-old transgender woman, figured there was a good chance she would be dead within 18 months. Since her diagnosis of metastatic rectal cancer, her life had become a succession of treatments and surgeries as more tumors were found. On her liver, and her lungs, and her large intestine, and again on her lungs.
At her apartment in Long Island City, Queens, she read cancer research papers and estimated her chances of survival, updating the odds after each scan, each tumor, each treatment. She tried to remember exactly what her doctors had said, and the tone they had used.
It frustrated her that she was unconscious at the most crucial moments -- as the surgeon removed each cancerous mass. What if the surgeon said something important, a stray comment that no one bothered to tell her about after the anesthesia wore off? She decided to record her next surgery, on March 7, 2022, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the renowned Manhattan hospital.
"I wanted to know what's going on," she recounted. She turned on the audio recorder on her phone before the anesthesia hit. "Knowledge is power."
"I wanted to record TikTok 'misgendering crime' content during my lifesaving surgery so that I could shame and cancel the people who saved my life."
In case you live such a happy and non-mentally-ill life that you didn't know this, transgenders love staging confrontations with normal people they interact with and recording them misgendering them -- "correctly gendering," in reality -- for clout and to cancel the poor normies who struggle to deal with these lunatics.
The surgeon removed part of her lung. She did not get around to playing the recording until a few weeks later. Though the audio was muffled, she could follow some of what the surgical team was saying before the procedure began. Someone was going out for coffee -- did anyone want something from Starbucks? The conversation then shifted.
" -- still has man parts."
It seemed to Ms. Capasso that they were talking about her genitalia.
Actually they were talking about all of the parts of his body, because they're all man parts.
But yes, they were also noting that despite claiming to be a woman and wasting medical resources by demanding a pre-surgery pregnancy test, he still had his dick and balls. He wants the world to make maximum effort to pretend he's a woman while he himself takes minimum effort to actually appear to be a woman.
On the recording, the health care workers express a variety of opinions about transgender identity more generally. "Not that it's not right, but -- " one person can be heard saying. "I don't get any of it," another says.
Oh no, mentally healthy people do not "get" the delusions of mentally ill people.
And in the middle of the conversation, one person suggests updating Ms. Capasso's medical file. "Yeah, it needs to say 'male,'" the person says.
Ms. Capasso said it appeared that hospital staff had in fact changed her electronic medical records, all while she was unconscious.
Yes, they corrected it, because if the operation went badly, he could sue them for working from false medical records. As I said, it is medically important to know if the patient is a male or female. Apparently this man lied in his intake forms and put a false medical history into the system.
Hey, if you're falsifying records, why not also claim you have ovarian cancer instead of lung cancer? Why stop at one falsehood?
With her records now marked "M" for "male," some hospital staff members called her "sir" during weekly appointments for blood draws. Others made a big deal about her being transgender. One person, perhaps taunting her, perhaps trying to be supportive, said things like "Yes, queen" -- also unwelcome, Ms. Capasso said.
Ms. Capasso said that when she asked hospital administrators to switch the "male" designation back to "female," she received a surprising answer: It couldn't be done, not anytime soon. She recounted the interaction in court papers, part of a lawsuit she filed in March in State Supreme Court in Manhattan accusing the hospital of discrimination. Ms. Capasso's lawyers shared the surgery recording with The New York Times.
The hospital, in its own court filings, has denied discriminating against Ms. Capasso and suggested that Ms. Capasso's "secret" recording invaded the privacy of its health care workers. The hospital denies changing Ms. Capasso's sex designation in medical records and "denies that plaintiff has been misgendered and misidentified in all of her records since 2022." In response to questions from The Times about Ms. Capasso's lawsuit, Memorial Sloan Kettering said in a statement that it "does not comment on ongoing litigation."
Ms. Capasso said that long before she made the recording, she had experienced discriminatory treatment at the hospital.
The year before, during an endoscope exam of her rectum and colon, the colorectal surgeon kept referring to Ms. Capasso as "he" when mentioning her to other medical workers, Ms. Capasso said in an interview.
It was, she said, among the worst interactions she had experienced as a trans woman in years, resurrecting old anxieties.
Two Medical Journeys
Ms. Capasso began her gender transition in 2015, in her mid-30s. She formed a tight circle of friends, and was dating. Life made more sense to her.
And then, in 2019, she was diagnosed with cancer.
Over the years that followed, Ms. Capasso was on two medical journeys: one, at Memorial Sloan Kettering, to keep death at bay; the other, with a plastic surgeon's help, to look more feminine. Starting in 2021, she underwent a half-dozen procedures to feminize her face.
Her brow ridge was sanded down. Her orbital bone was shaved to give her eyes an upward tilt. Her square chin was softened. There were cheek implants. Changes to her nose, too.
"I needed radical surgical intervention," she said. And she wanted it fast. The clock was ticking, maybe not for much longer.
"I wasn't going to die looking like the way I looked, especially getting treated the way I was getting treated," she said. "Like, not a chance."
She had decided on an open-casket funeral.
"I was going to be a pretty corpse," she said.
Even while preparing for death, she found that the feminization procedures gave her more confidence. "I wanted to blend in and be able to go out in public and just kind of be ignored," she said.
Ms. Capasso believes that her transition -- and her new life as a woman -- is what has kept her alive.
But her newfound confidence was fragile.
Yes because you're attempting to live an easily-disproven lie and so you're always "fragile" because the slightest bump or jostle will burst your bubble of self-deception.
And you've decided to make this the world's problem instead of dealing with it on your own, with the help of a psychiatrist. It's the world's duty to lie to support your self delusion, not your duty to make yourself more resilient when your delusion is challenged.
Whenever she went to Memorial Sloan Kettering, she felt dread, and not only the mortal kind. "I was constantly being reminded, every time I went, that I am different," she said. "It immediately brought me back to earlier days when I was very visibly trans, and it was rough."
And that's the world's problem now, huh, Chief?
She had been asked to take a pregnancy test, a routine preoperative step for female patients. Even though she doesn't have a uterus, she had offered to do whatever was easiest.
"I don't want to go into the operating room with any bad vibe," she later explained.
They asked him to take a pregnancy test? That is doubtful. My guess is that he demanded one.
And if they did perform a pregnancy test -- that shows why you're not supposed to lie in your medical case file and provide doctors with 100% false information.
Part of the campus of Memorial Sloan Kettering is reflected in a window seen from outside.
In the recording, the health care workers can be heard reassessing how Ms. Capasso's medical records describe her. "It's not supposed to just say 'female,'" one can be heard saying. "It's supposed to say 'transgender female.'"
Correct.
"It's still wrong per se," someone says.
They might have been annoyed or alarmed that they had been tricked into ordering a medically-unnecessary pregnancy test, which could be a basis for a lawsuit from a mentally-ill patient with a litigious streak.
And either way, I think it's going to be hard to bill the insurance company (or Medicaid, more likely) for the medically-unnecessry test, so the hospital is eating that loss.
After the surgery, it was there every time Ms. Capasso logged into her online patient portal or looked at test results: "M."
Before, she had generally been listed as "F" or "female" on any form with a field for "sex" or "gender."
Ms. Capasso wondered who had made the change and why. It was around then that she listened to the recording. Her stomach dropped when she heard the discussion about marking her down as male.
His stomach dropped.
His stomach dropped like his balls dropped at age 9.
Health care workers debate whether their patient's medical records should be listed as "male" or "female."
According to her lawsuit, the "M" in her medical records changed her interactions with hospital staff. At imaging appointments and blood draws, staff members looked at her longer than they had before, struck by the dissonance.
"My name is Jennifer, I look the way I look and I sound the way I sound, but it says 'M' on there," she recalled. "You could see there was a little reaction."
She just wanted cancer care. "I don't want them concentrating on my transgender status," she said. "I'm going there for them to keep me alive, and hopefully cure me."
See, it's other people who are always focused on transgenders' sex. Not they themselves. You're the bigots, Racists.
In legal filings, Memorial Sloan Kettering states that "its records accurately reflect Plaintiff's sex assigned-at-birth as male."
"Such information is relevant to and necessary for the provision of standard-of-care treatment," the hospital stated in court papers.
Medical journals and research articles have emphasized that doctors should be fully aware of the anatomy of their transgender patients -- as well as the sex they were assigned at birth -- in order to screen for diseases such as cancer and to properly interpret lab results.
Transgender women, for example, are less likely than men to be screened for prostate cancer, although they can remain at risk, according to research studies.
When Ms. Capasso asked Memorial Sloan Kettering to change her designation back to "female," she was told it would take two or three years, according to her lawsuit. Administrators said that they needed to wait for new record-keeping software.
So you get sued if you do, and you get sued if you don't.
His cancer has returned and he has returned to the hospital that saved his life, which he is now spitefully, viciously suing.
And they're now complying with his demands to falsify his medical records.
This past January, nearly three years after her surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering updated its electronic medical record system. Soon, Ms. Capasso began to see "F" and "female" on her records. She decided to pursue a lawsuit, she said, to help trans patients who came after her.
Her cancer has returned, and, in August, Ms. Capasso began a taxing round of radiation therapy to her lymph nodes. On a late summer afternoon, as she arrived for treatment, she tried to clear her mind of the worry she felt about both the cancer and how she would be received at the hospital as a trans woman.
She imagined she could gather up all the unpleasantness and anxiety and direct them, in a focused beam, to her tumors -- like a radiation beam.
She was back at Memorial Sloan Kettering, the hospital she was suing. She said she had chosen it in the first place because "they're the best." Her opinion of the hospital's cancer care hasn't changed.
"I'm still alive," she said. "I can't complain."
Transgenders, a tiny minority, have set upon a path of attempting to bully, coerce, and menace the vast majority into compliance, and it's working out for them about as well as you'd expect.
How is everyone? Where I am it's cold and wet but I think there'll be some sun later so I'll get out for my hike. Hopefully.
At what population density do immigrants retain their original culture, and have the ability to reject the culture of their "adopted" country?
If a small number of immigrants show up in a typical American city, they will be swamped by the tremendous cultural pressure of America. Some of their neighbors might be immigrants, but not from their home country. Their employers might be Americans, their children's teachers will probably be Americans, the advertisements they see, the music they hear, the food they see in most markets, all will be of their new country, or of immigrants from different countries and possibly radically different cultures.
But at some speed and density, the new immigrants will be able to recreate some of the conditions from their origin. If there are 50 people from country X, no ethnic food store will emerge to satisfy their demand for fried crickets or sheep's eyeballs or goat brains or.... But if 10,000 of them descend onto a neighborhood, then the demand can and will be satisfied. And not just food. Clothing, education, music, advertisements, religion, and on and on. Density and speed of the immigration will overwhelm even the power of American culture to assimilate.
And that is what happens when we prioritize a particular people for immigration to America. Somalia on the Mississippi exists because the desire to create a monolithic sub-culture that is insulated from the now defunct "Melting Pot," and can be manipulated for political ends, was far more important than the idyllic vision of vibrant immigrants enriching America while embracing our culture and political philosophy. Dearborn and Paterson exist because we have allowed our political class to create the conditions necessary for a permanent alien presence in America that conveniently votes for them!
That we have allowed these cultures to bring with them savagery, and even worse, an unadulterated contempt for everything that America and American Exceptionalism stands for is trivial to our political elites in comparison to winning the next election.
One of the most important structural changes that made these huge concentrations possible was the creation of the welfare state by the Democrats in the 1960s, ably and vilely led by the execrable Lyndon Baines Johnson. No longer did economics drive the desire to leave the inner city ghettos where most immigrants began their lives in America. Uncle Sugar made sure that they could remain with their fellow immigrants...forever! Section 8 housing, government housing, generous welfare payments, and other massive redistributionist policies allowed oceans of American tax dollars to flow into these areas, so that the voting blocs grew, but their morphing into Americans never happened.
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Good morning kids. As per yesterday's post about President Trump calling for Bro-Fo Omar to be stripped of citizenship and deported, despite being absolutely justified is likely a non-starter for a number of reasons. But that said, one has to ask why President Trump is wont to make these sort of statements. Does he do it just to stir things up, knowing that nothing will ever come of them? It does shine a very bright light on a do-nothing Congress, even if it is controlled by the GOP (I didn't use the term "his party" as it really isn't), and a bureaucracy and judiciary that is controlled by his bitterest enemies. The salient point is that by his making these kind of statements, he puts the issues and the bigger picture out into the broader public discourse and that to me is something that very few if any politicians on our side have ever done. Trump doesn't give a damn about how it looks, so long as he gets a broader point across and that ultimately in the long term if not short term I think will have a salutary effect on our government and society at large.
President Donald Trump recently offered yet another devastating characterization of one of the Democrats’ legion of America-Last, far-left politicians. All of Trump’s rhetorical cylinders were firing as he gave us this: The worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc.” The “swaddling hijab” business is a nice little nod to the Christmas season, and while this is Trump at his most acidic, there is no denying any of it. In fact, Ilhan Omar herself has made it clear more than once that she has little but contempt for the land that welcomed her and her family and gave them refuge from her violent, anarchic, war-torn homeland.
And so it goes. Obviously the leftist propaganda press as is their wont and mission will do everything to shield the President's targets and in turn attack him, his allies and agenda. While we must do all we can to be on guard from the foreign born invaders hell bent on taking us down, what in Heaven's name can we do to eradicate the equally lethal, if not more deadly threat, from the enemies within who are not foreign born but whose mindset, beliefs and goals are as devastating as Afghani gunmen or Saudi/Eguptian airplane hijackers. Back to you, Mr. President:
Referring to Holder by the nickname “FAST AND FURIOUS,” invoking the Obama-era gun-running scandal, Trump warned that Holder “emphatically stated, above all else, that Democrats will PACK the Supreme Court of the United States if they get the chance.” According to Trump, Holder supports not just a minor expansion, but an increase to “21 Radical Left Activist Judges,” up from “the heretofore 15 that they were seeking.”
For those who are unaware, and if you've been coming to the Ace of Spades HQ for any length of time, you certainly know what the President is referring to. but for the sake of clarity, "Fast and Furious" was a highly illegal and horrendously evil scheme cooked up by Obama and Holder to run guns into Mexico so that the criminal element there would cause such bloodshed and havoc that Obama and Holder would use the carnage to attempt to whip up public outrage here on this side of the border, and create a groundswell of public opinion to abolish entirely or render ineffective our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
TPUSA Frontlines reporter Julio Rojas covered a protest in Mexico City on Thursday in which Mexican citizens denounced the presence of the cartel in their country and the failures of President Claudia Scheinbaum’s administration in sufficiently addressing it.
The protests took place at the Angel of Independence Monument in the Zocalo in the Historic Downtown Neighborhood. According to the US Embassy in Mexico, the march coincided “with the Mexican Revolution Commemorative Military Parade, which begins at 10:00 am at the Zocalo and ends at the Revolution Monument.”
Other actions from the Mexican government are also being criticized in protests that have been ongoing throughout the past week; several of these protests are being attended by younger citizens, rallying against corruption and other “injustices” from the government, leading news outlets to call it a “Gen Z Uprising.”
The most extraordinary thing about the confrontation that wrongly sent Ian Cranston, an unassuming young man in glasses, to prison for a decade, is that there was very little argument over the facts because they’re amply documented and were caught on video.
The prosecution admitted that Cranston was assaulted by Barry Washington Jr: a violent criminal who had been harassing his fiancée. The assault by Washington was severe enough that Cranston looks battered in his booking photo, suffered a brain injury, and had to be taken to the hospital for evaluation.
Before Ian Cranston shot Washington in self-defense, the drunken violent criminal had not only attacked him, but also his fiancée, and had punched another of Cranston’s friends in the nose.
The only reason a case that normally should never have even come to trial not only did, but led to an innocent man being locked up for ten years was due to the deadliest three letter acronym.
BLM.
BLM and Antifa of course are the unofficial/official brownshirt/black mob stormtroopers of the Democrat Left. And considering this case is unfolding in Oregon, which is and has always been a safe haven and a home base for the most violent of Antifa Leftist political terrorists. It is essentially Gaza on the Willamette, If Cranston is exonerated it will be nothing short of a miracle. In any case, this is how vigilante death squads and Star Chambers are born. Add to this the case of Daniel Penny and what was done to him and the families of victims of illegal aliens who went unpunished as well as what’s happening in Britain with the Islamic rape gangs that will one day perhaps soon be coming here . . . and voila, the USA goes third world.
The Free Speech Union warns the United Kingdom risks losing “a check on governmental power and arbitrary justice” in “the biggest assault on our liberties in 800 years” if the government is able to push ahead this week with plans said to be looking at abolishing the right to a trial by jury in all but the most serious cases, such as murder, rape, terrorism, and others. For many other criminal cases where defendants face considerable jail time, the chance to have their guilt assessed by their peers hangs in the balance as Justice Secretary David Lammy looks for a cut-cost way to clear a backlog in cases, and the Union warns freedom of expression cases are particularly threatened.
So much for packing the Court, eh Holder? Hell, just do away with trials altogether!!! And as far as all but the most serious cases, they mean the ability to go after the political enemies of the Left and ultimately Islam. Oh there will be courts and trials, all done according to SHARIA law.
And as Bro-Fo, Mamdani and the Afghan assassin in DC show, it's coming here . . FAST and FURIOUS, so to speak.
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Glenn H. Reynolds: Tuesday is a big day for Tennessee, and for the closely divided US House of Representatives. Democrats have been vowing to turn red states blue, and last month’s elections gave them some hopeful signs, thanks largely to revved-up urban voters. This week a special election in Tennessee’s 7th District, pitting GOP military veteran Matt Van Epps against far-left candidate Aftyn Behn, will show them just how far their base can take them. Going by conventional wisdom, this should be a walkover for Van Epps: The district leans Republican by 10 percentage points, and Van Epps’ policy positions echo those of the previous incumbent, former Rep. Mark Green, who resigned in July to launch a new business. Too-close Tennessee election warns GOP: Damning the left isn’t enough
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
A coordinated bid to tell troops to distrust their Commander-in-Chief reveals how far some lawmakers will go to erode military discipline and destabilize the constitutional order. Principled Cowardice and the Seditious Six
Referring to Holder by the nickname “FAST AND FURIOUS,” invoking the Obama-era gun-running scandal, Trump warned that Holder “emphatically stated, above all else, that Democrats will PACK the Supreme Court of the United States if they get the chance.” According to Trump, Holder supports not just a minor expansion, but an increase to “21 Radical Left Activist Judges,” up from “the heretofore 15 that they were seeking.” Trump: Eric Holder’s Court-Packing Scheme Will ‘Destroy Our Constitution’
The U.S. needs immigrants and refugees who share American values and are willing to assimilate into the Golden Age of America, not try to transform it. (As mythological a creature as Bigfoot or a 'Palestinian'; better we should deprogram native-born lefties - jjs) Vetting Aliens from Third World Countries
In addition to retaliating against whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on fraudulent activities. Minnesota DHS Workers Blame ‘Dishonest’ Gov. Tim Walz for Massive Fraud: ‘100 Percent Responsible’
A federal appeals court upheld a decision Monday finding Alina Habba is disqualified from serving as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the defendants who argued that her appointment was unlawful. Appeals Court Upholds Decision Disqualifying Alina Habba
The epidemic has spread like wild-fire. Jew-Hate and Medical Personnel(In the immortal words of Lord Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell DDS, “IS IT SAFE?!” - jjs)
The liberal secularist values of the Fifth French Republic look set for a collision course with the burgeoning Muslim population, which has been imported mainly from France’s former colonies in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Seven in Ten French Voters Would Back Ban on Islamic Veil in Public: Poll
Murdered by her Muslim father and brothers in an 'honor' killing. Where are the West's feminists? Remembering Rayan Al-Najjar
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Just weeks after 50,000 people flew to the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém and agreed to agree on nothing other than the need for more meetings, the U.N. is welcoming upwards of 600 “experts” in France to prepare yet another report on “climate change.” Airports Alerted: U.N. Hosts Yet Another Fly-In Climate Doomer Conference
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
It means that taxpayers will no longer pay for degrees that don't meet certain criteria. And if they do meet that criteria, there is a cap on how much the taxpayer will provide. That's all. Capping student loans isn't sexist, it's common sense
Tuesday, Dec. 2, will determine whether America’s crisis pregnancy centers can operate freely or whether politicians in pro-abortion states can continue to harass them with lawfare. Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin. Pregnancy Center Lawfare: Will the Supremes End This?
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic governor-elect of Virginia, says she’ll govern as a pragmatic moderate — while pursuing a $15 minimum wage, constitutional protections for same-sex marriage and voting rights for felons. (Evil filthy degenerate slag. Congratulations, Virginia - jjs) Abigail Spanberger Pledges ‘Pragmatism’ — And Felon Voting Rights
Zelenskyy’s visit to Paris followed a meeting between Ukrainian and U.S. officials in Florida on Sunday, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio described as productive. The two sides have worked to make revisions to a proposed U.S.-authored plan that was developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow but criticized as being too weighted toward Russian demands. Zelensky and Macron Meet in Paris Again Amid Peace Talks Flurry
This story however highlights a positive aspect of these new constellations. Just as Russia can’t be prevented from obtaining black market terminals, neither can the oppressed citizens in totalitarian nations like Russia and China be blocked as well. These constellations as designed act to defeat the censorship and information control of such nations, a very good thing.
Russia still using black market Starlink terminals on its drones
The head of the Catholic Church is on the second leg of his first international tour in that position, traveling to Lebanon after a first stop in Turkey for events commemorating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, in which early Christian leaders agreed on the major tenets of the faith. In Istanbul, the pope addressed Turkey’s miniscule Christian population – ravaged by genocides throughout the 20th century – and offered them encouragement, urging them to use the “true strength” in the “logic of littleness” that they possess to thrive. Pope Leo XIV Suggests Leaders Should Discourage Migration in Lebanon Speech: Building Homeland ‘Very Valuable’
The man who once seemed a phantom operating globally could, under maximum pressure, become the key witness who finally brings the entire silence-driven structure crashing down. German Financial Scandals Turn Hot
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Americans import more and more ultra-processed foods from China every year, but its track record on product safety is hardly comforting. How the Chinese poison pet food
One fact must be recognized, based on the red tape and delays experienced by SpaceX during the Biden junta. Had Kamala Harris and the cadre that ran the White House under Biden had been in office now, this approval would almost certainly have not happened, or if it did, it would have likely been delayed for a considerable amount of time, into next year at the earliest. It is certain that Trump is clearing the path to prevent red tape and the administrative state from slowing things down unnecessarily.
SpaceX gets Air Force approval to launch and land Starship/Superheavy at Cape Canaveral
Ali’s rant came days after Trump vowed he would end “third world migration” to the United States in the wake of West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Bergstrom and West Virginia Air National Guard Andrew Wolfe being attacked at the Farragut West Metro Station in Washington, D.C., roughly a mile from the White House. Ali claimed on his Substack during a livestream of “The Left Hook” that Trump was doomed to failure. ‘Your Culture Sucks’: Wajahat Ali Attacks White Americans, Brags ‘Brown People’ Are Breeding In Bizarre Rant
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Rather than rapidly expanding facilities, we will pursue a strategy of maintaining long-term profitability. We will minimize the risk of oversupply through a capital expenditure (CAPEX) strategy that balances customer demand and pricing.
Translation: All our competitors tried this and went broke in the last "boom-and-bust" cycle. We don't plan to go broke.
Attempts to recreate it exactly as Fleming described it - with the Petri dish contaminated with mold after the bacterial samples were placed - fail. But if the contamination happens before or at the same time, the results can come out pretty much as stated, under the right conditions. It's particularly temperature-dependent.
And it turns out that right when Fleming went on his week's vacation leaving his experiment unmonitored, there was a cold spell that put conditions right in the path of a happy accident.
If that is how it worked out, there was even more luck involved than we thought.
The Atlantic is complaining about the ill-considered use of AI in higher education, which is fair enough. They are not complaining about all the other self-inflicted metaphorical head wounds in academia, which is less fair.
That mountain is 5,249 feet high, and it is so short in comparison to the mountains of the western United States that I can't even find it on a ranking list! It's a great hike during the summer, but since it is in the White Mountains, which is smack dab in the middle of weather that originates in Northern Canada, it can be miserable and dangerous any other time of the year.
Interestingly, the top of the mountain is in an Alpine Zone, which means the weather is so crappy that only small plants grow. No trees!
And for you layabouts and slugabeds, unlike Mount Washington, there is no road, so you will have to get off the couch and walk! But it is worth it...the views are wonderful, especially if you like fog and low clouds. Yeah; I would wait for good weather before climbing it.
This is from the mostly wonderful Daniel Greenfield. And even he doesn't get the whole picture! These so-called "Afghan allies" of ours when we were in that 3rd-World Sh*thole country weren't doing it out of some desire to assist America, or to bring enlightened Jeffersonian democracy to Afghanistan.
They assisted American armed forces because we were the power in the country, and they knew that aligning themselves with America would allow them to conduct their own vendettas under our shield. These people are tribal, and have no sense of patriotism. They are loyal to family, clan, tribe...and nothing else.
They are also savages with no respect for human life. That they are murderers in the Western sense isn't just unsurprising, it should be expected!
The whole idea of leaving Afghanistan was that Afghans would no longer be able to kill Americans. But Biden’s disastrous Operation Allies Welcome program turned the problem on its head by bringing 100,000 Afghans to America. The previous distribution of visas to Afghan 'allies' handed out over 50,000 SIV visas to supposed allies. Those unwise moves brought Afghan terror to America. And now our soldiers are fighting Afghans in the streets of D.C.
Instead of leaving Afghanistan, we imported it to America, now it's time to deport it back.
This is the existential fight, and America isn't even aware that it is in a battle!
Every bit of the culture these people brought to America is antithetical to everything that America is based upon, and everything that we have created over the last 250 years. There is no way to find some common ground with them, because they are a binary society...it is them or us!
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Okay, maybe I am on a bit of a Steve Earle kick, but I think he is a solid musician and singer.
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Oh, what the hell, let's stick to the very general genre of country! Or Country Rock.
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The Grifter Jasmine Ratchet Says She's Running for Texas Senate
—Ace
Actually she says she's "closer to YES than NO" but she's been threatening to run forever, and now that the Texas redistricting map is being implemented, she will probably not be able to win her new "home" district. (Because it's represented by another black Democrat she'd have to defeat in the primary.)
I don't know why I didn't realize this before, but this idiot grifter has been claiming for months that Republicans -- who she constantly attacks, often in very personal schoolyard bully terms, like attacking Republican women for their appearances -- keep stopping her in airports telling her that they secretly support her in her ratchet retarded attack on Republicans.
I now understand why this shameless narcissist and grifter is telling this obvious lie: She wants to be able to tell Democrats in a primary election that, despite her having extremely high negatives in polls, Republicans secretly support her and they're just lying to pollsters because Republican women (who she says are ugly and unfashionable) feel they have to lie to pollsters about supporting Jasmine Ratchet or else their violent MAGA husbands will beat them to death.
If Texas Dems actually nominate Jasmine Crockett, it’d be like if Republicans nominated MTG for senate, but in New York or Illinois instead of Georgia. Absolutely legendary stupidity, not even the 2022 GOP would’ve done something like this. https://t.co/di5kobIEBu
She wants to "raise her profile" while losing the race so she can then grift forever as a highly-paid "consultant" or even "executive" in a leftwing grift organization. She has no real aspirations to higher office -- unless she is "seriously retarded," as Trump would say -- and now just wants to live the Democrat Dream of being paid just for breathing.
President Trump gave Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro a strongly worded ultimatum as tensions flared with the South American nation -- telling him to resign and leave or else, according to a bombshell report.
During a call between Trump and Maduro, the socialist president demanded that he be allowed to maintain control of Venezuela's military if he paved the way for free elections there, said the Miami Herald, citing sources. Maduro also reportedly sought global amnesty for all of his alleged crimes.
Trump's refusal on both counts was said to be swift as he followed up with an offer that Maduro may not be able to refuse: Leave now or else.
The pair's talks quickly broke down, with a US pol Sunday lamenting that the ongoing "war" between the two sides is already deadlier than Vietnam for his state.
"It killed 100,000 Americans last year," McCormick said of the drug trade. "That's twice the number of people that died in eight years of Vietnam -- 4,000 Pennsylvanians."
After the phone call between Trump and Maduro failed to reach a detente, the US president announced he was closing the airspace around the South American country, as America's largest warship, the USS Gerald F. Ford -- and a Marine expeditionary unit, capable of amphibious invasion -- float offshore.
Trump also warned over the weekend that military operations inside Venezuela could begin "very soon."
Trump only told reporters Sunday that he spoke with Maduro recently, adding, "I wouldn't say it went well or badly."
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Trump informed Maduro during their chat that Maduro, his wife and son would be allowed to leave Venezuela safely, but they must do it immediately, sources said.
"First, Maduro asked for global amnesty for any crimes he and his group had committed, and that was rejected," a source familiar with the call told the Herald.
"Second, they asked to retain control of the armed forces -- similar to what happened in Nicaragua in '91 with Violeta Chamorro. In return, they would allow free elections," the source said.
That proposal was also rejected, while the demand that Maduro resign immediately was made.
The offer of amnesty was also extended to Maduro's top allies, the Herald noted.
After the breakdown, Trump ramped up pressure on Venezuela and warned that the US would target drug-trafficking networks "by land" soon.
By Saturday, he made an announcement on social media that Venezuela's airspace should be considered "closed in its entirety," stoking fears of a looming war in the South American country of 28 million people.
It remains unclear how Trump intends to enforce the no-fly decree, as the US has no authority over Venezuelan airspace.
But by Sunday afternoon, a FlightRadar24 map showed that there were no international planes flying over Venezuela.
🚨ÚLTIMA HORA🚨 El presidente Donald Trump @POTUS confirmó que tuvo una llamada telefónica con Maduro. Dijo que no puede calificarla como buena o mala… solo una llamada telefónica.
Trump Calls Tim Walz "Seriously Retarded" For Allowing Widespread Somali Pirate Fraud, Says Ilhan Omar Should Be "Thrown the Hell Out of the Country"
—Ace
No lies detected.
Trump called Walz "retarded." When the leftwing Foreign Pirate Cover-Up Media pretended to get the vapors, Trump doubled down.
President Trump on Sunday said he meant every word of his Thanksgiving attack on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that he stands by calling the Democrat "retarded" and adding, "Yeah, I think there's something wrong with him," when asked whether he wanted to revise the remark. Trump pointed directly to Walz's record as the reason for his choice of words, arguing that no responsible governor would preside over the kind of refugee policies that have transformed Minnesota in the way he described. "Anybody that would allow those people into a state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia," Trump said, before launching into a broader criticism of Somalia itself. He told reporters the country "has a name, but it doesn't function like a country," and said Walz's approach to migration shows "there's something wrong" with his leadership, not Trump's assessment of it.
The controversy stemmed from Trump's Thanksgiving post on Truth Social, where he warned that America's "refugee burden" has become a driving force behind what he called growing dysfunction in communities across the country. Minnesota, he argued, is the clearest example. In that message, Trump accused Walz of letting "hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia" take hold of the state, writing that organized gangs are "roving the streets looking for 'prey' as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone."
President Trump tore into Rep. Ilhan Omar on Saturday, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that the Minnesota Democrat "should be thrown the hell out of our country" if longstanding allegations about her immigration history prove true. Trump was responding to years of reports and sworn statements from Somali community figures who claim Omar entered the United States under a false family name and later married her own brother to secure immigration benefits -- allegations she has denied but never fully dispelled.
"Somalia, where you have a congresswoman going around lecturing everybody about our Constitution, yet she supposedly came into our country by marrying her brother," Trump said while flying with reporters. "If that's true, she shouldn't be in Congress, and we should throw her the hell out of our country." He added that America "doesn't need people coming here and telling us what to do," a reference to Omar's frequent battles with his administration and her habit of publicly attacking U.S. institutions.
Trump's comments landed at a moment when Omar and other Democrats are defending Minnesota's Somali community amid credible reports of large-scale fraud inside taxpayer-funded healthcare programs -- investigations that have already produced charges against dozens of individuals. Trump has repeatedly tied that scandal to broader concerns over immigration screening during previous administrations, pointing to billions of dollars flagged as missing. He previously announced plans to end Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals, saying the program had been badly abused.
Trump BLASTS Ilhan Omar: "Somalia, you have [Ilhan Omar] - she supposedly came into our country by marrying her brother.. Well, if that's true, she shouldn't be in Congress and we should throw her the hell out of our country!" pic.twitter.com/TOCPJVKWeo
President Trump on Thursday ordered a full halt to migration from all Third World countries and launched an aggressive audit of green cards from 19 nations, saying the D.C. shooting that killed National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom exposed the failures of Biden-era vetting and left the country vulnerable.
The president's order suspends migration from developing nations while federal agencies comb through green cards issued to immigrants from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. Federal officials described the audit as a full-scale, rigorous review that could reach tens of thousands of legal residents -- an extraordinary step triggered by Wednesday's ambush near the White House.
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When a reporter challenged Trump's repeated argument that Biden bore responsibility for Lakanwal's entry, Trump responded: "Are you stupid?" He repeated it several times as she attempted to continue, saying, "They let them in... They came in on a plane with thousands of others who shouldn't be here."
After the exchange, Trump outlined a broader slate of directives that go far beyond the migration pause. He said he would move to end all federal benefits for noncitizens, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic stability, and unwind "millions" of Biden-era immigration admissions -- including those approved using Biden's autopen, which Trump has repeatedly criticized.
Trump argued that years of lenient admissions under Biden fueled social strain across the country, pointing to census figures showing 53 million foreign nationals now in the United States. He said many arrivals came from "failed nations" or situations that placed heavy burdens on schools, hospitals, housing, and law-enforcement resources, warning that Americans have been forced to absorb consequences Washington refused to confront.
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump makes VERY clear he does NOT plan on lifting his ban on third world “migrants”
We DO NOT want those people! We have enough problems...You know why we don't want them? Because many of them are NO GOOD and they should NOT be in our country!”
Trump on putting the clamps on immigration from third world countries: "Countries like Somalia, that have virtually no government, no military — all they do is go around killing each other, then they come into our country and tell us how to run our country. We don't want them." pic.twitter.com/eswwVS8Qfu
An American family lost their daughter last week because the Biden Administration cared more about opening our borders to mass third-world immigration than the safety & security of our own citizens.
Everybody knows what a third-world country is. It is a low-trust, high-corruption society mired in political and cultural dysfunction. Whitewashing them by throwing out the claim that we only reject them because of racism is ridiculous. It is also racist, because it assumes brown… https://t.co/QIIlnC0EZs
No it's damn well not "racist" to stop the import of endless welfare cases and criminals into the country, says David Strom.
First things first: once you get past the fuzzy-brained claim that it is wrong to make the assertion that some migrant groups are net positives to a society and others are net negatives, let's clear something up: this is a statement of fact, and has been well documented by European studies in Nordic countries that have calculated the costs and benefits of migration.
In the Netherlands, for instance, Somali immigrants on average cost the taxpayers and the economy on average a million Euros in public support, and their children cost even more and contribute less than their parents. Immigrants from European Union countries and the United States, on the other hand, contribute on average 500,000+ more than natives from the Netherlands.
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In other words, immigration is not one thing; some immigrants are net contributors, while others drain resources and increase social instability and reduce social trust.
Go figure. It's not like we couldn't figure that out based on common sense.
Stephen Miller
@StephenM
The Democrat Party is organized around one essential command:
No limit of any kind can be placed on the entry of third world migrants. The failed states of the world must be allowed to empty themselves out into America. And you must pay for their every need, forever.
Democrat Delegate Stacey Plaskett, the Virgin Islands' non-voting member of Congress, garnered headlines recently when it came to light that she took direction from sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing.
Her relationship with Epstein is especially notable because Plaskett herself had "private nude images" of her stolen by her own ex-staffers, who used them to attempt to sabotage her re-election campaign. The husband of one of the culprits was, like Epstein, later found dead.
In March 2016, Plaskett asked staffer Juan R. McCullum to fix her iPhone. After snooping around, McCullum found nude images and videos, including one of her husband naked and wearing makeup while their young child was in the room, according to court papers.
It's possible that this is just a silly "Look at me with your lipstick on" photo but I suspect it's more Buffalo Bill than Monty Python.
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In July 2016, after leaving Plaskett's office to work for Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), McCullum created an email address and sent the photos to politicians and the media, as well as posted them to Facebook using a fake account. Police traced the accounts to McCullum and found that he had communicated with another former Plaskett staffer, Dorene Browne-Louis, who had gone on to work for the Department of Homeland Security.
"Somebody will pay for how we were treated," he wrote to Browne-Louis.
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In his messages, McCullum "voiced opposition to Delegate S.P. and attempted to use the communications to undermine Delegate S.P.'s re-election campaign."
Both culprits pleaded guilty. In a victim impact statement, Plaskett told the court that "our family's privacy was invaded, pillaged and we were basically raped by Juan McCullum and Dorene Browne-Louis... Why, because I was mean? I demanded a lot, I demand most of myself."
Plaskett continued, "We got calls from the White House with complaints that McCullum was pretending to be a member of the White House staff, we should have fired him then but I asked him to put his head down and let it blow over."
At least she didn't play the race card.
"I'm so grateful for all the people at home who rallied around me," she wrote. "The women who saw it for what it was. Bringing a black woman down. McCullum you're like some creep who rips a woman's clothes off in public, like the slave seller ripping a black woman's clothes off."
I spoke too soon.
"Then you went further. They tried to first emasculate my husband. Say he was not a man, because there was a picture of him with makeup. Makeup it was obvious he was not happy to be wearing. That he lost in a bet. The worst was that they tried to put in the public that my husband and I allowed our daughter who was around 4-5 at the time of the picture in some perverted unnatural situation. For that reason, I want to physically destroy the two of them."
Plaskett's husband, Jonathan Buckney-Small, wrote in his victim impact statement that he ran into McCullum after finding out about the photos and "NEVER had I felt the pulse the beat the flow my blood asking me to take matters in my own hands that night when you couldn't look me in the eye. It was then it was clear I had a decision I had to make do I go to jail to make myself feel better or do I let time take you do [sic] jail."
So they both indicated they were prepared to kill the "slavers."
And then:
In August 2016, a month after the photos and video were published, Browne-Louis's husband, Gregory Benson Louis, was shot and killed outside the firehouse where he worked.
Gregory Benson Louis, 50, was a supervisor at the Hotel Company fire station in Charlotte Amalie. Louis was shot and killed Thursday night.
According to police, he was seated on a bench outside the fire station when he was shot in the back of the head at about 7:30 p.m. He was declared dead on the scene by emergency medical technicians.
I can't find any articles about his murderer being found, but then, there's not a lot about this murder in the newspapers and not much from the Virgin Islands generally. Maybe he was caught. I don't know.
Walz then engaged in reprisals against the whisteblowers.
Tim Walz' own public servants are now breaking ranks and accusing the Democrat governor of presiding over what they describe as sweeping fraud inside the state's social services system -- and retaliating against the very people who tried to warn him. In a post on X Friday, a group identifying themselves as Minnesota Department of Human Services employees declared, "Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota," laying the blame squarely on the governor for what they call years of misconduct, mismanagement, and political protectionism.
The employees said they alerted Walz early about rampant abuse in the state's social programs, hoping he would help them clean it up. Instead, they say, he "did the opposite," unleashing what they call a "cascade of systemic failures" that included monitoring staff, issuing threats, and attempting to discredit reports that exposed wrongdoing. They allege agency leadership handpicked by Walz "willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet" and filled top posts with political allies who were "not qualified for their jobs." Staffers who witnessed or documented fraud were "shut down, reassigned and told to keep quiet," the statement said.
The employees publicly named several officials they say have been shielded from accountability: Shireen Gandhi, Jess Geil, Jodi Harpstead, Natasha Merz, and Eric Grumdahl. According to the whistleblowers, these officials helped bury fraud complaints rather than act on them -- a pattern they argue has cost Minnesota taxpayers millions and undermined trust in the state's largest agency.
Walz has pushed back on the criticism, telling The New York Times that his administration "erred on the side of generosity" during the pandemic and disputing claims that concerns about racial optics slowed the state's response. He pointed to more recent fraud-prevention efforts, though the employees say those steps came only after years of ignored warnings.
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With no confidence left in the state's leadership, the whistleblowers say they are now appealing to federal authorities to intervene. "We can't fight fraud in Minnesota alone," they wrote -- a plea that signals just how deep they believe the rot runs inside the Walz administration.
Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees
@Minnesota_DHS
Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It's scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.
In addition to retaliating against whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on fraudulent activities.
This is a cascade of systemic failures leading up to Tim Walz. Agency leaders appointed by Tim Walz willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet - even to the extent of threatening families of whistleblowers. These same leaders are not qualified for their jobs, instead getting leadership jobs via Tim Walz's friendship so state government were left floundering. DFL lawmakers refused to acknowledge fraud and deflected any serious conversation to stop fraud. Biased mainstream media such as WCCO and MPR showed absolutely no interest in covering fraud happening in our own state.
Really. You don't say.
MPR is Minnesota Public Radio, I presume. You know, that crusading independent news source that farmers in the boonies rely upon exclusively to learn about their government.
Programs, especially in behavioral health and disability services were built without any guardrails against fraud, all in an attempt to extract more funding from legislature and the federal government.
As staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet. Sometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action, such as stopping fraud, that would have an adverse impact on their image. To date, no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud whether it's Shireen Gandhi, Jess Geil, Jodi Harpstead, Natasha Merz, Eric Grumdahl or others.
It is a structure created and maintained by Tim Walz who has created an environment of inter-related agencies and institutions including the media - that help foster fraud through retaliation and turning a blind eye in exchange for political gain in the form of high power agency leadership jobs or other perks.
Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity, has poor leadership abilities, and has never taken any accountability for his role in fraud. Instead, Tim Walz deflects by blaming national politics for his own failings and distracts the public with inveterate lying. These lies include his reference of a budget surplus under his tenure. Fact is, Minnesota never had a surplus, we had been given federal ARPA funds that were conflated as surplus money otherwise, we'd be in a deficit. And those ARPA funds, which were meant to be temporary funds were used to create more leadership positions for Tim Walz "buddies."
As such, we can't fight fraud in Minnesota alone hence why we're appealing to the federal levels of government. We need all the help we can get as Tim Walz's agency leaders have upped their brazen approach in covering up their knowledge of fraud.
We are grateful to numerous solid politicians (esp the Fraud Committee) and media outlets who are trying to halt fraud. We are also grateful to other whistleblowers who are bravely stepping up.
Thank You NY Times for bringing the plight of Minnesota to the national stage.
Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression,… https://t.co/cEtbnuKmgn
— Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees (@Minnesota_DHS) November 30, 2025
If you think about it, it’s a significant shift for the New York Times to include a quote from a respected official declaring that mass Somali immigration and the resulting fraud threaten to destroy the “way of life” of an entire American state. pic.twitter.com/pYCQLatKua
Some say that the NYT gave their fellow leftwing propagandists permission to discuss the out-of-control foreign pirate plundering of Minnesota.
But CNN said, "Nah."
Some have observed that the New York Times has essentially given establishment journalists permission to discuss Minnesota's Somali fraud scandal. CNN had the senior senator from Minnesota on this morning. Could have brought it up. Didn't. Focused on Trump instead. pic.twitter.com/zjz7jYv5oF
An Afghan national brought into the country under former President Biden's Operation Allies Welcome program was arrested Monday after authorities say he posted a TikTok video that appeared to show him assembling an explosive device and naming Fort Worth as the intended target. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the case this week, with Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin announcing the arrest of Mohammad Dawood Alokozay on terroristic-threat charges. The Texas Department of Public Safety and the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force carried out the operation, booking Alokozay into Tarrant County Jail on November 25, according to WFAA in Dallas.
Alokozay's arrival in the United States was part of the Biden administration's mass-parole effort for Afghan nationals following the chaotic 2021 withdrawal -- a program increasingly under scrutiny after a string of violent incidents involving its recipients. His arrest came just one day before another Afghan national allegedly gunned down two West Virginia National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C., killing 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and critically wounding 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe. Both attacks, separated by barely 24 hours, have reignited warnings from conservatives about national-security lapses under Biden's refugee policies.
By Thursday, President Trump responded with a sweeping announcement of his own. In a Thanksgiving night video, Trump condemned the Beckstrom-Wolfe attack as "an act of evil, and an act of hatred, and an act of terror," adding that it was "a crime against humanity" and "an act against our entire nation." He said the pair of incidents underscored "the single-greatest national security threat facing our nation" and vowed a full review of every Afghan brought in under Biden's program.
The left is insisting that all of these terrorists were extremely super vetted. Mollie Hemingway doesn't believe that, but adds: If these terrorists were let through by the "vetting" process, then we cannot vet these terrorists at all.
If it is true, as fans of mass Afghan resettlement to the US claim, that individuals such as Wednesday’s terrorist and other similar attackers are in “one of the most highly vetted populations” in the history of the universe, that’s an admission the entire program is untenable. https://t.co/EW8Uo0p80K
As the media continues to insist that these murderous terrorists were Extreme Super Vetted, here's an assignment for them: Actually investigate what this Extreme Super Vetting consisted of.
I would like one of our esteemed or Pulitzer winning media outlets to inform the public precisely what vetting process these "refugees" were subjected to. How were they vetted during a haphazard, chaotic, hasty evacuation process? Were they criminals in their homeland? Did we… https://t.co/GsAv9zsBOJ
— Disinformation Expert Lizzy (@StarChamberMaid) December 1, 2025
Here are some facts about the Super Extreme Vetting.
"standard security screening and vetting process that U.S. Gov't conducts for refugee/visa applicants, which includes validating ID documents and an in-person interview by a trained official, is not being followed for the Afghan evacuees" -- Oct. 2021 GOP HSGAC oversight report
Afghans without any ID or records were approved for travel to US as long as fingerprints or other biometrics were not already in a U.S. Gov't database and connected to derogatory information ...
If an evacuee did have ID (e.g., an Afghan ID card or passport), federal officials said the screening process did not include the validation of identification documents beyond a visual inspection.
"few Afghans know their birthday, which has resulted in a number of evacuees' date of birth logged as January 1. This new record of the evacuee can serve as the basis for receiving a Real ID in the United States."
official who worked overseas said security vetting occurred when evacuees arrived in US. However, a federal official at the Fort Lee evacuee housing site said any vetting interviews occurred overseas before evacuees boarded planes for the United States. -- GOP HSGAC report
U.S. officials processing Afghans with ID cards stated they lacked any training to identify fraudulent Afghan documents. " unclear if federal officials could spot an evacuee using a fraudulent ID card.
vetting interviews were only conducted with evacuees
whose biometrics or phone records were linked to derogatory information -- officials acknowledged that this is not the standard immigration process from countries that require enhanced scrutiny prior to coming to US
"Furthermore, when the federal official was asked if the vetting was sufficient to be confident in America's security since evacuees can and have left the bases in the United States at will, the federal official said, 'no.'"
Democrats voted to let in the terrorists over Republican objections:
2021: in party line vote, Democrat Senators narrowly defeat Republican attempt to increase vetting of Afghans https://t.co/vP1HTDJBIf
And Biden was in a mad scramble to let in these Extreme Super Vetted Terrorists because he completely botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan and took no steps to plan for an orderly evacuation of real US "allies."
How are you? Is everyone rested?
I sure am. But that won't keep me from counting down the days until Christmas.
But for now, it's good to be back and mixing it up with you.
Treasury Department’s Crime Unit Announces Crackdown on Cross-Border Transfers of “Funds Derived from Unlawful Employment” Sent by Illegal Aliens
—Buck Throckmorton
There has been a flurry of announcements from the Trump administration in recent days regarding its battle against illegal immigration and how to address the tens of millions of people in the U.S. illegally. Amidst the talk of benefits being cut off and visas being suspended, there was another monumental move that was just announced.
Specifically, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) just sent an advisory to money services businesses (“MSBs”) which handle international wires stating that the requirement for preparing and submitting a Suspicious Activity Report (“SAR”) for “cross-border funds transfers” also applies to “funds derived from unlawful employment” in the United States. In more simple language, this means money earned by someone who may not legally work in this country is prohibited from being wired out of this country. This is a huge development.
The threshold for the SAR reporting requirement is $2,000 in aggregate, which means that “structuring” a series of smaller wires is also prohibited if the total exceeds $2,000. The regulation related to structuring states that “a series or pattern of such transfers that collectively suggest an intent to evade the SAR threshold must be reported.” In other words, the total amount of all wires must be reported. In addition, attempting to structure wires is itself a suspicious activity that must be reported.
As noted by FinCEN, these international wires frequently include payments to the smugglers who brought the “migrants” across the border, which effectively rolls to the drug cartels and crime syndicates. FinCEN calls these syndicates “Mexico based transnational criminal organizations.”
The press release from FinCEN and the Treasury Department is at this link. A few quotes from it are below the link.
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing an Alert as part of Treasury’s effort to prevent the exploitation of the U.S. financial system by illegal aliens in the United States seeking to move illicitly obtained funds. Annually over the past several years, the United States has witnessed a significant volume of cross-border funds transfers, including remittances from individuals located in the United States, and has taken multiple steps this year to highlight risks presented by cross-border financial activity.
“Money services businesses should be vigilant in identifying suspicious financial activity involving illegal aliens who present significant threats to national security and public safety,” said Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John K. Hurley.
This Alert is consistent with Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. Money services businesses (MSBs) are generally required to file a suspicious activity report for a transaction that involves at least $2,000 and that the MSBs know, suspect, or have reason to suspect is relevant to a possible violation of law or regulation. This includes the cross-border transfer of funds derived from unlawful employment or otherwise derived from funds the MSB knows, suspects, or has reason to suspect were illicitly obtained in the United States.
The full report issued by FinCEN to money services businesses is at this link, including this explanation for their action, “FinCEN has taken multiple steps this year to highlight the risks involved with cross-border financial activity, particularly transactions that benefit Mexico-based cartels, several of which have been designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”
Freightwaves and its CEO Craig Fuller have done a great job covering the many problems related to the explosive growth of illegal, foreign truck drivers that are behind the wheel on American roads. In a piece over the weekend, Mr. Fuller discusses the impact of this new regulation on the trucking industry and beyond, since much of the unlawful earnings of those foreign truck drivers are wired back to their home countries.
Of the estimated 11–14 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., roughly 60% to 70% regularly send remittances, totaling approximately $160 billion annually—an amount exceeding the GDP of many countries. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador alone receive over $100 billion combined.
By explicitly criminalizing funds derived from unlawful employment, the Administration aims to choke off this massive financial flow. When these flows are severely restricted, the financial incentive to remain in the U.S. shadow economy evaporates, resulting in a collapse of the economic model of illegal immigration.
But what if the employees of companies that do international wires simply turn a blind eye and do not complete the Suspicious Activity Reports required by the Treasury Department? That would be a bad decision. Wires leave an easily traceable trail under Treasury’s purview, and there could be harsh penalties for those who don’t comply. More specifically, the executives of companies who don’t comply could go to jail. As reported by Freightwaves:
FinCEN’s far-reaching powers include the ability to:
• Compel any financial institution to hand over records without a warrant (via National Security Letters).
• Unilaterally freeze assets.
• Impose civil penalties of $250,000 per transaction.
• Criminally prosecute executives for “willful blindness.”
Conservatives seeking to de-incentivize illegal immigration have long advocated for the imposition of severe remittance taxes on foreign wires sent by illegal aliens. This Treasury Department action prohibiting the international wiring of “proceeds from unlawful employment” will have much the same impact.
President Donald Trump suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) should be removed from the United States, referencing allegations that she “supposedly” entered the country by marrying her brother. “Somalia, where you have a Congressman goes around telling everybody about our Constitution, yet she supposedly came into our country by marrying her brother,” Trump said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One. “Well, if that’s true, she shouldn’t be a Congressman, and we should throw her the hell out of our country.”
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The video has English subtitles during Omar’s statements that she is in Congress to represent Somali Americans’ interests and that the “US will do what we want and nothing else.”
That she has not been removed from office or at the barest of minimums severely reprimanded or disciplined is a disgrace. Meh, she is a total disgrace and considering to whom and what she has pledged her allegiance, represents a grave threat to our national security and societal coherence, that s what is left of it after decades of dissolution.
So, the President's declaration is all well and good. But what are the odds that he or the appropriate agencies will actually follow through in stripping this filthy bitch of her citizenship and sending her back to the dark age shit hole from whence she came? And even if the process started, the reaction from Leftist/Democrat circles will touch off a furor perhaps not seen since the 2020 summer of love literal firestorms. Sadly and to our great misfortune and shame we are stuck with her and her kind unless there is a massive paradigm shift in both the public's tolerance for the kind of Islamo-Leftist thuggery that resulted in the shootings in DC and in the justice system that is clearly tilted against the American people and geared towards protecting the criminal elements that keep leftists in power and the citizenry cowed into submission.
He has used the billions he has made, the seed money of which was what he earned from the Nazis by helping them in their rounding up and shipping off to Auschwitz of Hungary's Jews in 1944. Among them a number of my mother's relatives. And here at home, we have this totally unsurprising report:
Iranian-Run, Soros-Funded Billboards Urge Soldiers to Disobey Orders This is not only sedition; it’s a national security threat.
He and Mark Kelly should only swing from the same noose.
During a call between Trump and Maduro, the socialist president demanded that he be allowed to maintain control of Venezuela’s military if he paved the way for free elections there, said the Miami Herald, citing sources. Maduro also reportedly sought global amnesty for all of his alleged crimes. Trump’s refusal on both counts was said to be swift as he followed up with an offer that Maduro may not be able to refuse: Leave now or else.
In the wake of Hong Kong's terrible, seven-tower Tai Po fire, which killed at least 128, the Hong Kong people impressed many with their spontaneous charity towards their fellow citizens, setting up donation centers, finding housing for the burned-out homeless, including domestic servants, sheltering the pets, feeding firemen, and more.
Then their ChiCom rulers showed up, and it all got ugly.
I'm not talking about the ordinary people of China, of course, many of whom rushed to donate supplies, too -- or even local officials of nearby Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong. They rapidly lined up fire trucks to help assist the effort -- and apparently were turned down by foolish local officials, although some may have belatedly gotten across the border.
Thus, President Trump’s decision to call Prime Minister Takaichi within a few hours of calling President Xi was a clear and unambiguous signal that he will no longer allow U.S. national security to be circumscribed by The Relationship. Trump shattered the narrative so piously put forth by the CCP and its enablers that the China-US relationship is so special and important that it could never be challenged or changed. To those paying attention, President Trump had hinted at his real perspective on The Relationship earlier this year when he stated, “The worst thing Nixon did wasn’t Watergate; it was allowing China to take advantage of this country. He and Kissinger are the ones who opened up China. And it was a terrible mistake. It didn’t have to be this way.”
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“Somalia, where you have a Congressman goes around telling everybody about our Constitution, yet she supposedly came into our country by marrying her brother,” Trump said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One. “Well, if that’s true, she shouldn’t be a Congressman, and we should throw her the hell out of our country.” Trump Suggests Rep. Ilhan "Bro-Fo" Omar Be Thrown ‘Out Of’ U.S. Over Claims She Married Her Brother
We will never allow this to continue to happen in our country, allow individuals who came to our country that were unvetted by Joe Biden allowed to run free and loose, we are going to bring them to justice and make sure that they’re returned out of this country. If they aren’t here for the purposes of being an American.” Noem: Biden Afghan ‘Abandonment’ Led to National Guard Shooting
In 1787, Judge Robert Yates predicted what we see happening today: judges interfering in the political process to destroy the Trump administration. Federal Judges Are Becoming A Form Of Tyranny
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Overall retail sales excluding automotive rose 4.1 percent from last year, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, surpassing the prior year’s 3.4 percent growth and landing near the high end of forecasts. The data, which tracks both in-person and online transactions but isn’t adjusted for inflation, suggests the holiday shopping season is off to a robust start. Black Friday Spending Surges Past Forecasts, Capping Strong Holiday Kickoff
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Tucker Carlson’s recent pivot reads less like commentary and more like a paid infomercial for Islamist narratives, wrapped in contradictions he once warned Americans to reject. Tucker Carlson: Subtle Islamic Apologist
A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn’t worth it, since many students graduate with “a large amount of debt” but no “specific job skills.” That’s up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime.” Americans are rightly waking up — much of higher education is now a scam
Crock-o-shett made the false suggestion on the House floor Nov. 18, but the contributions in question were from a different Jeffrey Epstein. On MS NOW’s (formerly MSNBC) “The Weekend,” host Jacqueline Alemany offered Crockett a chance to correct herself, but the congresswoman declined to retract her accusation. Rep. Jasmine Crockett Still Won’t Retract Accusation Lee Zeldin Took Money From Jeffrey Epstein
. . . with a matter-of-factness that is positively breathtaking under the circumstances, that Plaskett “had ‘private nude images’ of her stolen by her own ex-staffers, who used them to attempt to sabotage her re-election campaign. The husband of one of the culprits was, like Epstein, later found dead.” With all that going on, what’s a little texting with Jeffrey Epstein? The Story of the Dem Who Texted with Epstein During Hearing Just Got a Lot More Sordid
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Victor Davis Hanson: Putin gambled on Western hesitation, and now a war born of miscalculation grinds on because neither Moscow nor NATO is willing—or able—to force a decisive end. The War in Ukraine: Lots of Questions and a Few Answers
During a call between Trump and Maduro, the socialist president demanded that he be allowed to maintain control of Venezuela’s military if he paved the way for free elections there, said the Miami Herald, citing sources. Maduro also reportedly sought global amnesty for all of his alleged crimes. Trump’s refusal on both counts was said to be swift as he followed up with an offer that Maduro may not be able to refuse: Leave now or else. Now or never Trump told Maduro he and his family would be allowed safe passage from Venezuela — but gave an ultimatum: report
Clarice Feldman: A strange week in which Nicolás Maduro was reduced to hoping that Mark Kelly could bail him out. Fracas in Caracas and Six for Sedition
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was ousted from his previous party amid antisemitism scandals, will not lead the party he founded earlier this year. Despite Corbyn advocating a single leader model, as is typical in most Western democratic parties, the now formally named ‘Your Party’ will not be led by him or his unruly acolyte and co-founder, Zarah Sultana, either. Socialist Corbynista Party Votes to Have No Leader, Will Be Run by Politburo-Style Committee (1990: slowly then all at once the USSR collapsed in a heap! - jjs)
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Kelly said, “It seems to. If that is true, if what has been reported is accurate, I’ve got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over. We are not Russia. We’re not Iraq. We hold ourselves to a very high standard of professionalism.” Kelly: First Caribbean Boat Strike a War Crime(says the traitorous piece of shit who fomented mutiny in the ranks - jjs)
Chronic vomiting tied to long-term marijuana use has now has been codified by health officials seeking to diagnose and track the mysterious disorder, which has been increasingly seen in emergency rooms this decade. Persistent Vomiting Caused by Chronic Cannabis Use Now an Official Disorder(and yet cannabis is touted as an anti-nausea panacea for cancer patients - jjs)
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There's a sculpture called Kryptos at the CIA offices in McLean, Virginia, which contains four panels of encrypted text. Three have been decrypted by puzzle-solvers, but the fourth has defied all attempts since the installation was created in 1990.
The artist, now aged 80, has auctioned off his notes and clues to the contents of that fourth panel... For close to $1 million.
It supports everything from the Ohio Scientific Challenger 1, which shipped in 1976, to the Commander X16, which shipped as a developer edition last year and is available for purchase right now.
It has a 5" 2560x1920 screen - and a 1" secondary screen - and a QWERTY keyboard with a number row at the top and a function/punctuation row at the bottom. It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite and equipped with 24GB of RAM and 1.5TB of storage.
Price is not mentioned, and you might be best off not asking.
I found this strangely satisfying to watch - at least 15 times in a row.
reminder that Costco sells over 6 million Pumpkin Pies a year in November and December, with a 1/3rd of those sales happening in the three days prior to Thanksgiving pic.twitter.com/7CVjxk1CFr
An indictment filed in a Texas federal court accuses Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, of planning to recruit an army of homeless people, buy a sailboat and seize power on Gonave Island, an island off the coast of Haiti with a population of about 87,000 residents. The two young men allegedly planned to recruit homeless people from Washington, D.C. to serve as their “mercenary force” during their grand coup d’etat.
According to court files, Weisenburg and Thomas had researched Gonave Island and concluded that it had a very weak government, almost no infrastructure, and had been crippled by poverty. They concluded that it could be taken over through a brutal invasion that would eliminate the local men and turn the women and children into slaves.
Check out the whole thing. Seriously. Video segment at the link.
Maybe one of you writers could tuen this into a movie or miniseries. C'mon - do it!
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The response to my fashion segment last week was less then whelming. My good friend and fellow Club ONT boss T Rex is taking over this week's segment. He has just one thing to offer, and honestly, I think he crushed it!
Thanks, Dino!!!
Just kidding -- Piper has returned this week!
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Melania Trump's Holiday Chic
As the holiday season sweeps in, First Lady Melania Trump turned heads with festive flair. From welcoming the White House Christmas tree to pardoning turkeys in true presidential tradition, Melania's wardrobe choices over the past week have perfectly captured the spirit of glamour.
Kicking off the week on a high note, Melania greeted the arrival of the official 2025 White House Christmas Tree—a towering evergreen from Korson's Tree Farms in Michigan—with an ensemble that was holiday without veering into kitsch. She opted for a floor-length Christian Dior Palto Coat in ecru
double-sided virgin wool and angora blend felt, cinched at the waist. The real magic? Her accessories. Forzieri cashmere lined Italian leather gloves in red added a pop of seasonal cheer, a rewear from 2018. Completing the look were Manolo Blahnik BB 105 Pux Heel in a subtle tartan plaid. The look was this southern girl’s dream- holiday elegance delivered with the soft confidence of someone raised on monograms and good manners.
Transitioning seamlessly from Christmas prep to Thanksgiving tradition, Melania joined President Trump for the annual turkey pardon ceremony, where Gobble and Waddle earned their tickets to a leisurely life at North Carolina State University. FLOTUS chose an Anine Bing Leon bomber jacket in dark brown, a Ralph Lauren Collection cashmere turtleneck also in dark brown, and a Ralph Lauren Collection Mychele wool herringbone skirt finished with Christian Louboutin So Kate 105 Pumps in brown.
On Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago, Melania wore a Michael Kors Collection Hansen Charmeuse shirt in black and a Dolce & Gabbana Lamé Lace midi skirt. It was bold, yes, but never loud. The metallic thread glinted just enough to remind you that grace and a little daring have always been welcome companions.
If there’s one thing Melania Trump taught us this week, it’s that holiday style doesn’t have to scream louder than your Aunt Linda after two glasses of champagne—it just has to whisper while winkin’ at the camera. So grab your own belted coat, find yourself a bold red accessory, and strut into December like you’re about to decorate a 20-foot tree before lunch. Because if Melania can do it in four-inch stilettos on the White House lawn, bless it, so can we.
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Incumbent Senator John Cornyn (RINO - TX) betrayed his party and his country by voting in favor Biden's Afghan resettlement bill in 2021. Cornyn voted to bring in the Afghan who shot two National Guard soldiers on US soil. A vote for Cornyn is an endorsement of importing unvetted, radicalized murderers. [Buck]
Podcast: Jim Lakely of Heartland Institute joins CBD for a discussion of their recent polling that shows a majority of 18-39s want socialism, the Epstein files, what will Mamdani do, and more!
Podcast: Buck Throckmorton joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about the cultural and business shift away from the insanity of EVs and Climate Religion, his calm perspective on last week's election, Tucker is a toad, and more!
Our Favorite British Couple Exploring True America Experiences Flora-Bama And Sees A Side Of The Deep South Rarely Seen. [dri]
Tucker Carlson claims that it's weird that Ted Cruz is interested in the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, because he has "no track record of being interested in Christians," then blows off the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, saying it might or might not be a real concern Tucker Carlson enjoys using the left-wing tactic of "Tactical Ignorance" to avoid taking positions on topics. Is Hamas really a terrorist organization? Tucker can't say. He hasn't looked into it enough, but "it seems like a political organization to me." Are Muslims slaughtering Christians in Nigeria? Again, Tucker just doesn't know. He hasn't examined the evidence yet. He knows every Palestinian Christian who said he was blocked from visiting holy sites in Bethlehem, but he just hasn't had the time to look into the mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria that has been going on since (checks watch) 2009. He doesn't know, so he can't offer an opinion. Wouldn't be prudent, you know? Don't rush him! He'll sift through the evidence at some point in the future and render an opinion sometime around 2044. Of course, if you need an opinion on Jewish Perfidy, he has all the facts at his fingertips and can give you a fully informed opinion pronto. Say, have you ever heard of the USS Liberty incident...? You'd think that the main issue for Tucker Carlson, who pretends to be so deeply concerned about Palestinian Christians being bullied by Jews in Israel (supposedly), would be the massacre of 185,000 Christians in Nigeria itself. But no, his main problem is that Ted Cruz is talking about it, "who has no track record of being interested in Christians at all." And then he just shrugs as to whether this is even a real issue or not.
Whatever we do we must never "divide the right," huh?
Tucker is attacking Ted Cruz for bringing the issue up because he's acting as an apologist for Jihadism, and he can't cleanly admit that Jihadists are killing any Christians, anywhere. There is no daylight between him and CAIR at this point.
One might conclude that Tucker Carlson himself isn't interested in the plight of Christians -- except as they can be used as a cudgel to attack Jews. Just gonna ask an Interesting Question myself -- why is it that Tucker Carlson's arguments all track with those shit out by Qatarian propaganda agents and the far left? That if Jews crush an ant underfoot it is worldwide news, but when Muslims slaughter Christians it elicits not even a vigorous shrug?
I once glimpsed Garth in the penumbra betwixt my wake and sleep. He was in my dream, standing afar, not looking my way, nor did he acknowledge me. But I felt seen. And that's when I knew I was a traveler on the right path. I'm glad he's still with us.
Greetings, Traveler. If you still have not experienced Garth Merenghi -- Author, Dream-weaver, Visionary, plus Actor -- the six episodes of his Darkplace are still available on YouTube and supposedly upscaled to HD. (Viewing it now, it doesn't appeared upscaled for shit.) I think the second episode, "Hell Hath Fury," is the best by a good margin. Try to at least watch through to that one. It's Mereghi's incisive but nuanced take on sexism.
Podcast: The elections! NYC, Virginia, New Jersey, Texas, California, and the future prospects of the Republican party...
