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Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday night ONT. Last day of March. Did it go out like a lion or like a lamb for you? Do you have any good pranks planned for April Fools Day tomorrow? Anything else you want to talk about - have at it! Open thread as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
When Kishore Karlapudi saw his beautiful mansion in Celina, Texas, rented on Airbnb for a party of seven people, he never imagined it would be invaded and vandalised by hundreds of teenagers looking for a good time.
Karlapudi doesn’t live in the mansion himself, but instead rents it out on Airbnb for passive income. He never imagined that he could become the victim of some teenagers looking for a place to stage the mother of all parties.
“Somebody booked it, saying they needed the property for a party of seven people,” Kishore Karlapudi told Fox4 News.
According to Celina Police Chief John Cullison, that small party of seven swelled to between 500 and 800 people after the event was advertised on social media. On the evening of March 21, police started receiving calls about a massive gathering at the mansion, followed by reports of gunshots being heard on the property.
“We started getting the 911 calls with the shots fired. We also got a call that there was 10 men at the front gate, and they had guns, and they were threatening to kill someone. So, this of course amped our officers up just a bit to make sure we go inside and keep everybody safe,” Chief Cullison said. “But it wasn’t until they went inside and they actually realized how vast this party was.”
More at the link, including 2 video segments.
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Did you know there are some snakes that have an internal gauge for their level of poison? You do now!
Red-necked keelback snakes are highly toxic—mere drops of their pungent yellow poison could blind a mongoose and stop its heart within minutes. But the snakes don’t make that toxin themselves; rather, they steal it from the poisonous toads they eat.
After a red-necked keelback (Rhabdophis subminiatus) eats a true toad (a member of the Bufonidae family), the snake’s intestines soak up the toxic bufadienolide molecules from the amphibian’s skin. The toxins are then shuttled into more than a dozen pairs of storage pockets in the snakes’ necks called nuchal glands. Then the snakes act fearless. They rise and jut their necks at mongooses and other would-be predators as if to say, “Go ahead—I dare you.”
That brazen attitude doesn’t last, though. If dinner has been nontoxic recently—poison-free frogs or fish, for example—these reptiles often hurriedly slither away.
Snakes are equal parts creepy and cool to me. How about you?
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In the market for a super cool vintage car? Here's one to consider.
This Coronet spent almost its entire life with the same man who picked it up from the dealership and drove it home. It remained in the family after his passing, but the son has decided to let it go for a simple reason. It holds too many memories, so someone else must cherish the car now.
That's why it's here. This Coronet R/T is looking for a new home, and while it's not a spotless specimen, it's worth knowing the car has never been restored or altered. I would still inspect it personally before making an offer to check if all of these are true, but at first glance, this Coronet just seems to check all these big boxes.
Dodge offered a little something to every Coronet buyer in 1968.
It started with the Coronet Deluxe, which was the most affordable configuration but also came with a six-cylinder 225 standard. A 273ci V8 unit was optional if buyers wanted a little bit more power.
The Coronet 440 also started with a six, but the engine options went all the way up to the 440ci with 375 horsepower. The Coronet 500 was next with a standard 318 and more options, including the popular 383, followed by the almighty R/T. The Coronet R/T was all about the power delivered by its engine and the mix of upgrades inside the cabin, and buyers could choose either the standard 440 or the 426 Hemi.
The Hemi was the engine to get if power was the main objective, but it's not a secret that this engine configuration was ridiculously expensive. It featured dual-quad carburetors and delivered 425 horsepower, so some buyers didn’t care and still ordered the engine, no matter the price.
This Coronet R/T was and still is equipped with a 440ci V8 engine paired with a 4-speed manual transmission.
The vehicle is up for online auction.
The top bid at the time of writing is $19,100, but it's expected to increase significantly, as the Coronet seems to get impressive attention lately.
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The car is parked in Chicago, Illinois, and if you don't want to pay more for shipping, you should be able to drive it home on its wheels.
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Hope the owner of this wallet isn't a Hordeling. There's math involved for it to be returned!
A mathematician found a wallet, He left a note in a way so only the real owner could contact him pic.twitter.com/BkXNP1ZtBM
My second favorite story: Pregnant dog is rescued and family friends care for and then adopt all 11 puppies, and once a year, they have a big family reunion.
A crewed NASA mission to orbit the moon is scheduled to launch tomorrow night.
In case you missed it, the shrewish nonbinary kobold who chaired the NDP meeting got very miffed at being "gendered" as "Madame Chairman."
Attorney General Pamela Bondi
@AGPamBondi
Today @TheJusticeDept sued the state of Minnesota for allowing boys to play in girls' sports and use girls' locker rooms.
This DOJ acknowledges biological reality and we refuse to let high school girls be subjected to this treatment. It's not only unfair -- it's deeply inappropriate and dangerous.
Proud to partner with @SecKennedy and @EdSecMcMahon on this important litigation.
The Department of Justice announced a lawsuit Monday against Minnesota and the state's high school sports league for allowing boys to compete in girls' sports.
According to the DOJ, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) have engaged "in sex-based discrimination by requiring girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions that are designated exclusively for girls and allowing boys to invade intimate spaces designated exclusively for girls."
In doing so, MDE and MSHSL have openly defied Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funding, the DOJ said in a press release.
"The Justice Department cannot ignore a state's brazen defiance of federal antidiscrimination law," said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. "In service of radical gender ideology, Minnesota's actions violate Title IX and deny female athletes their hard-earned trophies, records, dignity, and safety."
The lawsuit highlights the story of Marissa Rothenberger, a biological male who pitched for the girls' varsity softball team as a junior at Champlin Park High School.
Rothenberger threw multiple shutouts, including a complete-game shutout in the Class 4A state championship game, leading the Rebels to the 2025 title.
The performance prompted federal investigations into Minnesota's compliance with Title IX and drew criticism from female athletes who said they were displaced or put at a disadvantage.
The vile Daily Mail published a straight-up hoax, claiming the bullets recovered from Charlie Kirk's body did not match those from Tyler Robinson's gun.
This is a lie. The bullet broke into pieces. It could not be matched to any gun because it is shattered and deformed. (It also couldn't be excluded as a match to Tyler Robinson's gun -- due to the poor shape of the bullet, tests are "inconclusive," as they often are.)
But the Daily Mail is thirsty for clicks, so they lied:
It may surprise you that the Daily Mail runs clickbait lies like this. In fact, they're a pure clickbait site. They are not "conservative" -- but they will publish conservative-tiling articles just because they know conservatives will click on them. They also post extremely left-leaning articles -- because they want commie clicks too.
They're like fake magazine Newsweek, which has the same mercenary, "print anything as long is it delivers clicks" credo.
Megan Basham
@megbasham
20h
This is clickbait trash and completely discrediting to the @DailyMail.
Spoke to a LEO who told me fragmentation that makes it impossible to get a match to ANY weapon happens all the time. Yet the Daily Mail is echoing Tyler Robinson's defense team nearly verbatim. They did NOT quote a single law-enforcement officer not connected to Robinson's defense who would've given their readers a better understanding of what's happening here.
They're purely leaning into this because they know there are a bunch of rabid conspiracy theorists who will not take the time to understand this.
Which makes the Daily Mail and its reporter scum in my book.
I will no longer link to this outlet. If I have to quote one of their articles, I'll just say it's from the Daily Mail with no link.
Ever wonder why Israel always has thousands of terrorists in jail that they have to release every other year because Hamas and Hezballah take a bunch of civilians hostage?
Ever wonder why Israel just doesn't kill them?
Well Israel is wondering about that too, and the left is -- get this -- outraged!
Also from Canada: This bizarre performance at the JUNO Awards, Canada's Grammies. This was apparently intended as a "tribute" to Natalie Furtado. You should listen to it. If you can get past the weird grunting and sexual breathing in the beginning, you will then learn that this singer cannot carry a single note. She doesn't even get close to a note. And her voice is all over the place so she should, per the law of large numbers, hit some notes accidentally, but she doesn't.
🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis is moving to get a radical leftist judge IMPEACHED after she RELEASED a known predator who went on to kill an innocent 5-year-old girl
REPORT: Judge Teresa Stokes released Decarlos Brown just months before he stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zaruska because he wrote her a "written promise."
Remarkable.
According to court documents, Stokes decided to release Brown because he "promised" her he would return for… pic.twitter.com/F9dQHoxpHz
Ana Navarro attacked President Trump for his "flippant" communication on Iran -- when former Iranian regime prisoner Kian Tajbakhsh dropped a NUCLEAR truth bomb straight from inside Iran:
TAJBAKHSH: "I want to share one thing about Donald Trump's communication style."
"When I spoke to someone inside Iran who I trust -- he runs a very big business, he's not a politician but he has to follow very closely all the tea leaves -- he told me, that guy is a genius!"
"And he's talking about Trump."
"And I said, why?"
"You know, he said, because he's completely confused the Iranians."
"Finally, the Iranians have met someone who is like a match for them."
Abby Phillip couldn't handle it -- she cut him off twice mid-sentence:
PHILLIP: "But do you think that's really true?"
TAJBAKHSH: "I think it's true. I think it's true, let me--"
Shut down again.
The anti-Trump narrative just got torched live on air by someone who actually knows Iran.
🚨 CNN panel just got absolutely DESTROYED.
Ana Navarro attacked President Trump for his “flippant” communication on Iran — when former Iranian regime prisoner Kian Tajbakhsh dropped a NUCLEAR truth bomb straight from inside Iran:
Supreme Court Rules That Free Speech Still Exists; Ketanji Brown Jackson Doesn't Understand
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This should have been a 9-0 unanimous decision.
It has been the rule of the land since the founding of the Republic that the Constitution's stricture against passing "any law" limiting speech meant that no government, federal or state, could impose "viewpoint" restrictions on speech -- disfavoring or even criminalizing a specific view, argument, or belief.
Now, the Court long recognized that governments may impose "time, place, and manner" restrictions, especially on public gatherings and marches. For example, you can permit a march from 1pm to 3pm, so that the march does not interfere with rush hour traffic. You can tell the marchers they cannot walk in front of active garage entrances. You can tell the marchers they must be orderly and cannot use bullhorns that boost noise above, say, 100 decibels. That kind of thing.
But you cannot -- absolutely cannot -- pass a law or deny a permit to march based on your agreement with or disagreement with the speaker's speech. You can regulate speech as far as the time, place, and manner in which it is spoken, but you absolutely cannot regulate what that speech can say.
This was the rule controlling government regulation of free speech for 250 years, completely agreed to by all Supreme Court judges. Yes, lefty judges would of course put their thumbs on the scale and claim that some limits on speech they don't like -- like protesting outside abortion clinics -- were fair restrictions regarding "place" rather than viewpoint-based restrictions on pro-lifers, but everyone agreed on the framework for analyzing these cases.
Until today.
Gentlemen, you asked for a radical incompetent. I give you K. B. J.
The Court was nearly unanimous that Colorado cannot ban a therapist from counseling a patient to try to change his sexual orientation. Even "Wise Latina" Sotormayor joined the majority. Obama's Obamacare advisor, who cast a decisive vote on Obamacare, Elena Kagan joined the opinion.
But DEI Justice KBJ cast another lonely dissent, essentially repudiating 250 years of jurisprudence on free speech and declaring that sometimes, if the government really really really doesn't like speech and that speech is DoublePlus UnGood and Conservative, it can in fact ban speech based on what viewpoint it advances.
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Colorado cannot enforce its so-called "conversion therapy" ban regarding conversations between therapists and minors, saying the law likely violates the First Amendment by allowing some viewpoints but not others.
In an 8--1 decision, the high court said the law favors one viewpoint by allowing therapists to affirm a minor's gender identity or sexual orientation, but not help them to change it if they want to.
The decision stemmed from a lawsuit brought by Kaley Chiles, a licensed Christian therapist, who argued her conversations with youth clients were a form of protected speech. The Colorado government had said the conversations amounted to professional conduct that the state was allowed to regulate.
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Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, saying the question before the high court was a "narrow one" and that Chiles did not seek to toss out the Colorado law but rather consider whether it could apply to therapy that was strictly conversational.
"The First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country," Gorsuch wrote. "It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth. However well-intentioned, any law that suppresses speech based on viewpoint represents an 'egregious' assault on both of those commitments."
In the lone dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the majority "plays with fire in this case" and that she feared "the people of this country will get burned."
Ketanji Brown Jackson has now flipped completely on this question: In an earlier case, she argued that the state had zero power to ban transgender procedures for minors. The state just didn't have the power to intrude into medical advice and treatment, she proclaimed.
Now she takes the exact opposite position -- the state has All the Power to outlaw whatever medical advice it dislikes -- based not on law, precedent, or logic, but based simply on her leftwing extremist political bias that whatever gays and transgenders want, they should get, period, the law be damned.
Last year, Justice Jackson dissented in the U.S. v. Skremetti case-- in which she argued that states have no right to ban gender transitions on minors.
Today, she was the lone dissent on Chiles v. Salazar, writing that "there is no right to practice medicine which is not… pic.twitter.com/J7D3fa6fYa
🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) pummels DEI SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Jackson as a hypocrite, after she was the lone dissent in today's ruling against Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy for kids
Notably, Justice Jackson trains her fire on Justices Kagan and Sotomayor. In a footnote she basically accuses them of being dupes for the conservative majority. Kagan responds, basically accusing Jackson of not understanding longstanding law. 👀 pic.twitter.com/paR4XOKZMv
Let me make an analogy, which illustrates the trajectory of the left.
The leftwing propaganda media used to pretend. The leftwing propaganda media plainly favored Democrats -- and plainly favored Democrat constituent blocs like criminals, welfare recipients, women, transgenders, black and "brown" people, and Muslims -- but pretended to be applying neutral "rules" in its news coverage. They didn't intend to favor these groups out of political loyalty, you see, it was just that these completely neutral "rules" compelled them to cover these stories in this way. Now that was always a lie, because there are many contradictory "rules" they can apply in any case, and they choose which of these contradictory rules to apply according to their political bias. And then they deny the bias, lying that a "rule" forced their hand, without admitting that they chose that "rule" precisely because it would result in the outcome they desired. They are too cowardly and dishonest to admit they are simply political operators, so they used to spend a lot of time spamming out perfectly-disingenuous reasons why every single "journalistic" free choice they made just happened to favor the Democrat Party and its constituent blocks.
The truth has a leftwing bias, they began saying at the end of the Age of Pretending, before they transitioned to just blatantly promoting the interests of Democrats and Democrat-favored constituent blocs.
It began under GWB, with influential Democrats decrying "both sides" and "balanced" coverage, urging "journalists" to just proclaim One Side Is Right and One Side Is Evil, which, of course, they ultimately did. Now they just openly favor and cheerlead the Democrat Party and its constituent blocs, and openly smear Republicans and their constituent blocs (especially white people, males, straight men, and Christians) without any excuse or justification or any pretense whatsoever that they are applying neutral "rules" independent of their own partisan political agenda.
Very, very similarly: Leftwing judges used to pretend that they weren't deliberately and consciously favoring Democrats and Democrat constituent blocs but were instead merely applying neutral "rules" that dictated their decisions. True enough, this was all a lie -- just as it was with the media -- and they would choose which supposedly neutral rule would apply in each case to favor the parties they went into the case favoring. But still, they did pretend. They would blatantly mis-characterize and mis-categorize parties in a dispute to elevate the party they politically favored and disadvantaged the party they disfavored, but still, they pretended to be working within a legal framework of analysis.
But Ketanji Brown Jackson now does what leftwing "journalists" did before her -- she decides that all of this talk of "rules-based" decisionmaking is just a game that favors the Bad People, so the Good People should just throw out all rules and do what leftists have been doing forever anyway, just ruling in favor of the left's favored constituent groups and ignoring laws and logic to get to whatever outcome the leftists' "conscience" dictates.
Yes, she's stupid, and yes, she's chosen this theory of jurisprudence precisely because it rejects intellectual analysis and says "Just do whatever is in your stupid, corrupt communist heart."
But she is NOT an aberration. This is where the entire left is now, and all of the absurd decisions you see coming from leftwing judges are following this same theory of jurisprudence, that explicitly puts particular people -- politically favored people -- over principle, and political outcomes over logic and coherence.
No longer are we a nation of "laws not men." We are now a nation of particular "men" with specific Favored Identity Points, and the law must always be corrupted, distorted, perverted and twisted to deliver the outcomes favored by those with those Favored Identity Points.
And they're not even pretending to work within a system of objective rules any longer.
Update: Gorsuch mocked Justice DEI for claiming she wasn't really restricting the therapist's speech because she was allowed to sometimes speak or even "write papers."
Kristi Noem's Husband Is a Not-So-Secret Crossdresser Who Adorns Himself With Ridiculous Fake Breasts
—Disinformation Expert Ace
So I was wondering: Why does Kristi Noem feel that she can have a very non-covert, practically overt affair with Corey Lewandowski? She refused to even deny it when asked about it at a congressional hearing.
I'm not being judgey, I'm asking: Why does she think that? Doesn't she worry about the husband finding out?
The answer to the latter is "Nah, bruv." She does not worry about a jealous heterosexual husband, not at all.
She might worry about her husband stealing her Wonderbras, though.
These are the photos that allegedly show Kristi Noem's husband Bryon wearing comically oversized, lopsided breasts -- complete with fake protruding nipples -- to female members of an online fetish community.
The Daily Mail obtained "hundreds" of messages purportedly sent between the former Secretary of Homeland Security's husband and three women who are involved in the so-called "bimbofication" fetish scene.
The kinky community involves people injecting their busts with freakishly large amounts of saline in pursuit of a "Barbie-doll"-like appearance.
The pictures show the South Dakota insurance mogul, who has three children with Noem, clad in pink hotpants and a skin-tight, flesh-colored crop-top stuffed with enormous balloons made to resemble massive cockeyed breasts.
His face is clearly visible in several of the photos, including one in which his expression is so mundane it could be from a driver's license photo.
In others he flashes a more flirty "kissy-face" pose in which he's pursing his lips.
The outlet spoke with national security experts who said the existence of the scandalous photographs could have made his wife subject to potential blackmail threats.
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"They approach the person and say, if you work with us we won't expose this, and if you don't, we will. That's espionage 101."
Kristi Noem was ousted from her role at DHS on March 5 after a pair of disastrous congressional hearings, including fumbling a question about whether she was having an affair with married top aide Corey Lewandowski.
Noem claims the family has been "blindsided" by this. Press X to doubt. Her weird behavior suggests she's been dealing with this for years.
See the article for the pictures. This pervert is wearing a shirt, but you can see the fake hooters and their misaligned nipples under the fabric of the shirt.
I was going to post one but... eh. I'm not mad at you guys today so I won't do you like that.
If you don't want to see it: Imagine a seedier version of Hugh Laurie with giant foam-latex breasts with nipples that point the way to Bangor, Maine and Albuquerque, NM simultaneously.
Woe Canada: Canada Now Running Benetton-Style Fashion Ads Urging Its Sick Citizens to Present Themselves Before the Suicide Booths for a Quick and Easy (and Cheap for the Canadian Welfare State) Exit from This Life
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They're actually selling suicide as a blissful fashion choice.
A Canadian woman claims she went to the hospital for help with a sudden illness — and was shocked when a doctor offered to help her die instead. That’s when a doctor offered Lancaster Medical Assistance in Dying, the country’s voluntary euthanasia program, before any other… pic.twitter.com/FvhI3okitJ
— Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@Gitmo99) March 30, 2026
Canada is precisely what the left wants the US to be.
Below, Canadian leftists at an NDP party meeting. NDP is the "New Democrat Party," I think, which is code for "communists. They are not a fringe party -- they are the second biggest (and soon to be biggest?) party of the left. Justin Castreaux relied on their support throughout his corrupt rule. No Canadian leftist can win an election without the NDP's support.
The Canadian communists squabble over the exact rights and privileges that their "Equity" cards grant them. An "Equity" card is a card granting you explicit advantages for your identity over people with non-favored identities, which, as the ringleader of this commie clown show explicitly admits, is almost entirely about favoring minorities, women, and transgenders over white "dudes."
The "Gender Equity Cards" allow people with Special Identities to cut in line to make their stupid points faster, before people with Less Special Identities.
They argue whether a woman with a "cisgender woman" Equity Card should have priority over a "racialized transgender" -- an Asian man in a dress -- or not.
NEW: Far-left Canadians start arguing over "Equity Cards" at the 2026 NDP Leadership Convention.
Woman 1: I was standing here with my gender equity card before you called on the previous speaker. That's my point of privilege...
New Democrat Party (NDP) in Canada had some GENDER EQUITY CARD drama in Winnipeg this weekend as they came together to select their new leader and were debating pros and cons.
This is so ridiculous. Who would take any of these people seriously?
In this clip, a Stronk and Empowered Black Woman reminds the speaker that these "equity cards" have no value or power outside this NDP party meeting. What she means is that she wants "equity cards" giving her explicit race and gender advantages over white "dudes' in real life. She wants to flash her Equity Card in real life to cut in line at the bank and take handicapped parking. (Those are for examples, she didn't actually admit that.)
Sorry for the short post, I was trying to write the Supreme Court decision post but it's taking time. So I'm just posting this as a quickie.
Trump To Cowardly Countries Complaining They Can't Get Their Oil Through the Strait of Hormuz: If You Want Your Oil, Send In Your Navy and Take It Yourselves, Tough-Guys
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Is Trump shifting the Overton Window to suggest that whoever can control the Strait -- like America -- should control the Strait?
American Debunk
@AmericanDebunk
This post by Trump is pre-framing what's to come. Read along and you'll start to see it too.
When Trump tells the UK to "go to the Strait and just TAKE IT," the surface read is that he's venting at allies who didn't show up.
But the deeper move is priming the the public (and world) with a new mental frame: the Strait of Hormuz is not Iranian sovereign territory anymore.
It's available real estate. It's takeable. Anyone with courage can have it.
That's a massive Overton Window shift delivered, in a tweet, as an insult to the UK.
A year ago "America controls the Strait of Hormuz" sounded like some twisted fantasy. Today Trump is telling Britain to go grab it themselves like it's a parking spot.
In a few weeks, Trump has normalized the concept of Western control over the Strait so thoroughly that full US seizure now looks like the modest option compared to what he's suggesting allies do on their own. This is intentional.
The persuasion mechanics here are priming plus pre-selling. Whatever the eventual deal includes (US Navy permanent presence, joint patrols, Iranian withdrawal from mining infrastructure) the public will accept it because Trump already told them the Strait is there for the taking. Your subconscious mind has already been primed to accept it.
This "psychological baseline" is going to influence Trump-Iran negotiations. Best believe it.
"The hard part is done" works the same way. He's managing public fatigue.
It translates to "we won, relax, this is cleanup".
This keeps approval from eroding while the Pakistan talks drag through April.
Trump isn't describing reality. He's installing it.
Say the Strait is takeable enough times and it becomes takeable in the public mind.
It's been 10 years of Trump and he still leaves me in awe with his persuasion.
And Trump is also shifting the Overton Window on the NATO alliance -- and I have shifted with him. An alliance is like a contract between nations; it either provides reciprocal advantage to both parties, or it's repudiated.
I used to worry that Europe would be taken over by Russia with NATO. Now I don't care if it is or isn't, and anyway, Europe is choosing Soviet Communism on its own without Russia tanks compelling it to.
And obviously, it is Islam conquering Europe, not Russia.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: NATO wasn’t there for us. We send billions of dollars to them every year to protect them. We would have always been there for them. But based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we?
Note that last one is from the State Department's official account.
🚨Trump: “The Country of France wouldn’t let planes headed to Israel, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory. France has been VERY UNHELPFUL with respect to the “Butcher of Iran,” who has been successfully eliminated! The U.S.A. will REMEMBER!!! President… pic.twitter.com/dWSEhPuenp
President Trump shares footage of U.S. bunker buster strikes hitting an Iranian ammo depot in Isfahan, showing massive explosions from 2,000-pound bombs. 
Supporters say the strikes are crippling Iran’s capabilities and increasing pressure.pic.twitter.com/IIYujnptmO
— Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) March 31, 2026
Did Trump manage to open the Strait of America?
BREAKING: Huge uplift in vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz today.
The Dow shot up 900 points, which equates to forty fucking million Deutschmarks.
Gummi
@gummibear737
Western civilization may never win another war if this keeps up
This is maddening. The radical left, mainstream media, and the woke right are running the exact same playbook with the US/Israel campaign against Iran as they did with Israel in Gaza
They create impossible standards in terms of:
-Zero Casualties
-Zero Economic Disruption
-Zero Uncertainty
-Zero Time to Accomplish the Mission
-Zero Collateral Damage
And everything the bad guys do is actually our fault because we made them do it....same script as Gaza...the bad guys have no agency and it's actually our fault
Day 32 of the Iran war:
-degraded missile factories, nuclear sites, IRGC bases, and proxy networks
-the Supreme Leader is gone...and his replacement is s vegetable
-all the top leadership is gone...in fact, we don't even know who's in charge
Yet the all you hear is endless doomerism
And all of this sounds exactly like the demoralization propaganda from Russia, China, and Iran, that has infiltrated our society for years via social media and retarded influencers chasing click
This isn't responsible skepticism
It's weakness...
And you'll never get peace through strength when the opponent knows you lack resolve and they can just wait you out
The mayor of Rhode Island's capital city is calling for a mural reportedly backed by Elon Musk to honor Iryna Zarutska --the Ukrainian woman whose brutal murder while riding a North Carolina train prompted calls for harsher punishment for career criminals -- to be taken down.
The mural, located on the exterior of The Dark Lady, an LGBTQ+ club in downtown Providence, remains incomplete, WJAR-TV reported.
The office of Mayor Brett Smiley told the news outlet that he wants the artwork taken down.
"The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence," Smiley said in a statement.
He said he continues to "encourage our community to support local artists whose work brings us closer together rather than divide us."
Did he call for the George Floyd murals to be obliterated as well?
Of course not.
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Zarutska, a 23-year-old refugee who fled her country after the Russian invasion, was brutally stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack while riding the Lynx Blue Line light rail in Charlotte, NC, last year.
The suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, is charged with violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system resulting in death, which is a capital offense under federal law.
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Zarutska's death prompted questions about soft on crime policies adopted by many Democratic-run cities. President Donald Trump spotlighted the killing during his State of the Union address last month.
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"Iryna was riding home on the train when a deranged monster, who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no-cash bail, stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body," Trump said.
"She had escaped a brutal war only to be slain by a hardened criminal set free to kill in America," he added. "Ms. Zarutska, tonight I promise you we will secure justice for your magnificent daughter."
It's pretty explicit that white lives don't matter to the left. "Reparations" include the right of "oppressed minorities" to beat and kill white people with little consequence.
It's also clear that the Regime that murdered Iryna by letting this psychopath out of jail dozens of times will brook absolutely no criticism of their murderous policies. Iryna is not just a reminder that white lives matter too, askshually. It's a reminder that the psycho-left's policies cause butchery and rape. But the psycho-left will use any tool of oppression to halt any argument or simple fact that might undermine their headlong drive to inflict authoritarian Marxism with a nasty racist twist on the country.
The attack earlier this month on a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, was "a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism purposely targeting the Jewish community and the largest Jewish temple in Michigan," the FBI said in a news conference Monday.
The assailant, Ayman Ghazali, a naturalized US citizen from Lebanon, rammed a pickup truck into the synagogue on March 12, as more than 100 children were attending school inside.
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Had he lived, he would have been charged with providing material support to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group in Lebanon, said Jerome Gorgon, US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Gorgon added Ghazali was inspired by Hezbollah propaganda to carry out the attack.
"This man acted under Hezbollah's direction and control," Gorgon said. "He intended to kill others, not just himself."
Two of his brothers were Hezballah terror commanders. They were killed by Israel.
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Ghazali began planning for the attack days earlier, the FBI said, with his plans intensifying on March 9. A review of Ghazali's online activity dating to January showed repeated searches for pro‑Hezbollah and Iranian news outlets, as well as videos related to gunfire and ammunition.
Beginning March 9, the FBI said, he closely followed speeches and live coverage involving Hezbollah's secretary general, Naim Qassem, along with reporting about an Iranian fatwa -- a religious ruling concerning Islamic law -- calling for total jihad against the US military.
He also researched Jewish cultural educational and religious centers throughout the Detroit metro area, viewed multiple pages of upcoming events at Temple Israel and searched specific terms and phrases such as "the largest gathering of Israelis in Michigan," "Orthodox synagogues" and "Israelis near me," Runyan said.
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An order of dozens of water containers arrived on the 11th -- the day before the attack -- and he immediately started filling them with gasoline, making four trips to gas stations so he would not arouse suspicion, Runyan said. He also bought two torch lighters, which authorities believe he used to set his truck on fire.
On the day of the attack, Ghazali sent his sister, who authorities believe lives in Lebanon, numerous videos and messages "affirming his Hezbollah-inspired ideology," Runyan said.
Ten minutes before he drove his truck into the synagogue, Ghazali sent his sister two videos in Arabic indicating he was at the largest gathering of Israelis in the state of Michigan, had booby-trapped his car and would forcibly enter and start shooting people, the FBI said.
"God willing, I will kill as many of them as I possibly can," Ghazali recorded himself saying, according to Runyan.
Happy Tuesday!
I didn't read much over the weekend but I'm now "On the Doorstep" in The Hobbit. I'm sure many of you finished.
Does anyone do this? When I read Hobbit/LOTR, I put on music and ambience from the movies. But I'm not sure it adds anything. I think it just distracts me.
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It was Netanyahu inspired terrorism. He consistently links Judaism and Zionism and it puts a target on the backs of Jews all over the world. The people in Michigan had nothing to do with the war crimes Israel is committing.
Exactly. Who wants to take the FBI at their word on this one? I'm guessing the usual suspects.
It absolutely doesn't excuse the violence, but I've also heard his family in Lebanon was killed in Israeli attacks. If we're going to be involved in this war, we're going to experience the effects of it.
It turns out when you launch a poorly conceived attack on a foreign nation with zero regard for collateral damage, it leads to stuff like this. There is zero excuse for the violence he planned to commit, but killing innocents breeds terrorism and unfortunately the current administration is damn good at that.
This isn't a terrorist linked attack. The FBI is bullshitiny to justify the invasion of Lebanon. Gotta justify the genocide and land grab
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50 years of American-sponsored welfare at the expense of any sense of national pride, desire to participate in the defense of its own culture, and the active importation of subwits from the 3rd World because they were just too lazy to pick up their own garbage and mop their own floors has led to the current situation in Spain. Or should we be honest and call it Al-Andalus?
After the death of Franco in 1975, the die was cast on Spain. They fled from any sense of nationalism, civic pride, love of Western culture, and perhaps most telling, their religiosity. The decay of a once formidable culture has led to their startling acquiescence to the invaders from the Muslim world. After a massive terrorist attack on the Madrid train system in 2004, in which almost 200 people were killed, the country tucked its tail firmly between its legs and ran from the West, ran from self-determination, ran from solidarity with 2,500 years of western culture, straight into the arms of a post-modern malaise, compounded by the Muslim invaders in their midst.
Their natural inclination for powerful government at the expense of the individual made their "social democracy" experiment a thinly veiled cradle-to-grave socialist state. Except of course their own defense! That was supplied by their membership in NATO, which means it was provided by the United States.
Their current betrayal of America and the effort to wrest the West away from ascendant Islam is not surprising; it is a natural result of the arrogance and obliviousness of the current European mindset that values diplomacy and negotiation over all, even at the expense of...everything!
Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles confirmed the move, saying Spain has denied both airspace access and the use of joint U.S.-Spanish bases for any operations tied to the Iran conflict.
"This was made perfectly clear to the American military and forces from the very beginning," Robles said. "Neither the bases are authorized, nor, of course, is the use of Spanish airspace authorized for any actions related to the war in Iran."
Spain already had refused to allow U.S. forces to use the strategically critical Rota and Morón bases in southern Spain, installations long viewed as key hubs for American military operations into Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The expansion of that restriction to Spanish airspace effectively cuts off another logistical pathway for U.S. operations and signals that Madrid is willing to directly limit U.S. military movement despite its NATO membership.
The answer for America is simple...close those bases, and spend the billions of dollars in some other countries that will be more appreciative of America and its effort to free the world from Iran's evil.
And for the taxpaying citizens of America? Don't go to Spain. Don't buy Spanish products. It's simple. They don't support us, so why should we support them?
Besides, it is a country that is rapidly descending into the evil of progressive atheism, in which the value of life and culture is measured by an amoral calculation more akin to Mao than to Ignatius of Loyola (whatever you might think of him).
Here is a powerful bit of data that Spanish culture is gone... replaced by the same post-modern melange currently engulfing Canada, the UK, and a few other Western countries.
Noelia Castillo Ramos' case galvanized international attention after her father, Gerónimo Castillo, mounted a legal battle against the authorization of various Spanish courts for his daughter to receive euthanasia in 2023. Aided by Abogados Cristianos (Christian Lawyers), a conservative Catholic organization, Mr. Castillo exhausted all appeals to the Spanish courts.
The father argued that his daughter wasn’t fully psychologically able to make a decision regarding euthanasia and that she needed better medical and psychiatric care. His legal battle was ultimately shut down by the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, on March 10.
It's called psychiatric illness, and giving its sufferers agency over their own treatment and lives is, frankly, insane. But it illuminates the interest of the collective over the individual, and the total rejection of an objective morality that has been the backbone of the West, courtesy of religion, for 2,500 years.
Spain has chosen its path, and we should respect that choice. But no amount of Serrano ham, Paella, and magnificent art should lure us to continue our support of this failed state.
[France too is barring American use of its airspace, but that is a discussion for another time!]
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Brian Stewart, the Chair of the Hernando County Democrat Party, was charged with simple battery following the incident in Spring Hill. He was booked Saturday afternoon and released two hours later after posting a $1,000 bond, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office. . . A statement from the Hernando County Conservatives organization claims Stewart shoved a “permanently disabled” military veteran who “served our country with honor and distinction” and then struck him in the head with a megaphone.
OF course that is but one example but that it was not just some random braindead AWFL or Soros rent-a-thug but a local Dem bigwig. Of course, what we witnessed over the weekend and indeed starting with the anti-war protests and civil rights riots of 60years ago right up until the present day has is roots in the classrooms and lecture halls of academia.
Members of America’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association (NEA), were back in training in February, this time for a confidential webinar entitled “Advocacy and Free Speech Rights for K-12 Educators.” The leaked slide deck, posted by the watchdog group Defending Education, reveals that the NEA is less focused on American students’ stagnant test scores than on training its members to become activists, while using misinterpretations of the First Amendment as a shield.
The February session complements the union’s December 2025 in-person training on “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice.” That event counseled attendees to “develop a toolset of tactics for dismantling systems of privilege and oppression.”
Students in New Mexico will learn more about the January 6 Capitol riot and climate change than the moon landing. New Mexico high school history guidelines contain over a dozen references to the January 6 riot while only mentioning the moon landing once. The guidelines, part of the New Mexico Instructional Scope for History, are largely focused on racial and gender grievances and encourage teachers to promote Democratic politicians and lament how the richest men in the United States today are “mostly white.”. . . “These state level documents expose a troubling pattern by education activists of pushing leftwing political and social biases into K-12 classrooms as established ‘facts,'” Staley told The Daily Wire. “Students and families deserve an education that values a politically neutral approach to weighing different sides of issues, not political indoctrination.”
No Kings, but Red Guards disguised as Democrats abound. Unless and until Academia from pre-school through post-graduate is utterly seized and restored to some semblance of sanity. Meh, that requires the restoration of morality, ethics, sanity and american/western cultural values across our entire society. Did the Long March through the institutions bring us to our knees, and if so, is there a road back?
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Trump made the declaration in a message on his website, Truth Social. What remains of the Iranian government after the elimination of “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has repeatedly denied Trump’s claims that it is in conversation with the American government, while also stating that it has responded to American proposals, which would be impossible without a conversation. Trump: ‘New’ Iran Regime in Place and Talking, but U.S. Will Blow up Its Power Infrastructure if No Deal
“So again, you do the math on how much longer the Pentagon needs to fully achieve the objectives of Operation Epic Fury, which I will reiterate: destroy the Iranian Navy, destroy their ballistic missiles, dismantle their missile and drone production infrastructure, significantly weaken their proxies throughout the course of this operation, and then, of course, preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Leavitt added. White House: Original 4-6 Week Operation Epic Fury Timeline Remains in Place
Last week, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order directing the Secretary of Homeland Security, along with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to utilize funds with a “reasonable logical nexus” to TSA operations to pay the over 60,000 TSA employees, including approximately 50,000 transportation security officers. TSA Agents Receive Back Pay After Trump Intervenes.
The Treasury Department issued an advisory to banks pushing them to monitor accounts more closely for suspicious activity, saying, “They’re the frontline in identifying financial fraud when nonprofits, whether its daycare centers, hospice care, start wiring big round numbers out, that’s a problem. There are large multi-national criminal organizations that are doing healthcare fraud, so we are all hands on deck.” Uncle Sam Wants You To Snitch. You’ll Even Get Paid Big For It.
Automotive News reports that the FTC has intensified its oversight of automotive dealership advertising practices, specifically targeting the promotion of vehicles that are no longer in stock or do not exist. This enforcement action carries significant financial consequences, with violations potentially exposing dealerships to fines exceeding $50,000 per offense plus customer restitution, according to attorney Patricia Covington who spoke with Automotive News. Bait & Switch: FTC Cracks Down on Car Dealerships Advertising Vehicles They Don’t Have for Sale
. . . trillion-dollar asset management fund Apollo Global Management says it will open a secondary headquarters in Florida or Texas. "Apollo expects most of its future hiring to be in the second hub rather than Manhattan," according to the New York Post, surprising literally no one. This Trillion-Dollar Firm Wants Out of Mamdani's NYC
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The “Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force” launched on March 28, 2025. Since then, more than 3,500 personnel — including 800 Federal Law Enforcement officers and 1,800 National Guard Troops — hit the streets of Washington to address crime, the Caller learned. (RELATED: Majority Of Voters Say Trump’s DC Crime Crackdown Was ‘Justified,’ Feel ‘Unsafe') EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s DC Crackdown Wipes Out Homeless Encampments
Does it ever seem like certain types of crimes get ignored or played down by legacy media?. . .Here’s a list of the latest crime across America. American Crime Blotter: 3/30/26
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
In response to the intensifying European energy crisis, the green lobby in Brussels and Berlin is accelerating the pace of transformation. Europe Doubles Down on Eco-Transformation
The Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program, which was soliciting applications as recently as March 15, provides financial aid to Native Hawaiian medical students who agree to practice medicine in Hawaii after graduation. Awardees receive tuition, a monthly stipend, and additional funds to cover books and supplies. HHS Sued For Race-Based Program Reserved For ‘Native Hawaiian’ Students
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Victory in 2026 will come from consolidating and mobilizing the voters most likely to show up, as well as those most likely to support the party. That means building an unapologetic coalition of MAGA voters and senior citizens. MAGA + Seniors = GOP Midterm Victory
I’ve only recently become aware of Hasan Piker, the hipster dweeb left-wing influencer who somehow manages to be more insufferable than David Hogg and Maxwell Frost. (I know, that doesn’t seem possible.) Piker is the twerp who took to Cuba to live it up in luxury hotels while claiming that Cubans are totally cool with abject poverty under Communism: Hasan Piker’s Endorsement Is All the Proof Georgia Needs to Dump Jon Ossoff (Meh, TOssoff himself! - jjs)
Writesman discussed how the FDA put many Chinese companies that produce GLP-1 drugs on a “Green List,” which means they are “not being detained at the border.” She contended that the government-created loophole to flood the market with obesity drugs creates an environment where Americans have access to drugs that may have been created under lax safety standards or lack transparency around ingredients. Exclusive – RX Border Defense’s Patsy Writesman on CCP’s Stranglehold on Skinny: FDA’s ‘Green List’ Surrendered GLP-1 Supply Chain to China (Chunks in the armor - jjs)
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It works for movies, because movies have massive amounts of redundant information - most of each frame is identical to the previous, with just some elements shifted.
These are engineering samples and probably not running even close to full speed, but they are already competitive with Zen 5.
Interesting point: The high-end models have 24 or 32 cores per chip (and up to 8 chips on the CPU). That's expected for server Zen 6c models (AMD's efficiency cores), but if they're not efficiency cores that's a big surprise.
"We believe our policies are consistent with the law and reflect our commitment to fairness, opportunity, and building the strongest possible teams," NFL executive vice president Jeff Miller
I normally don't comment on the Quotes of The Day. Between this Miller guy and his gutless, spineless, testicle free boss Roger Goodell I can't stand the NFL and it can't go broke fast enough. I grew up close to Green Bay and have always been a Packers fan.
But since 2020 I've given up on the league. The kneelers, the "Hands up" bullshit, politics entered the game. So I now spend my Sunday afternoons doing anything but watching football.
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“Neither the bases are authorized, nor, of course, is the use of Spanish airspace authorized for any actions related to the war in Iran,” Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles
With allies like this who needs friends? What our open borders types never want to discuss out loud is: What happens when Europe becomes a Caliphate and possesses nuclear weapons. Looking at another gutless, spineless, testicle free boi named Keir Karen Starmer.
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‘I was so small, I was just a walking boob throughout the whole of school. I definitely looked super awkward because I had nothing on me apart from boobs.’ Summer Robert
apitalism in space As part of the reshaping of NASA being pushed by NASA administrator Jared Isaacman, the agency today announced major changes to its future programs in low Earth orbit, on the Moon, and in exploring Mars. Video of these changes can be viewed here and here.
The Moon
NASA will now focus all work in its lunar program on getting to the surface of the Moon. Lunar Gateway is “paused,” though the language of NASA’s press release suggests more strongly that it is dead, with the agency already trying to figure out ways to “repurpose” its already built components. NASA will instead ask for proposals from private industry and its international Artemis partners to ramp up as soon as possible a phased program to establish the infrastructure on the Moon needed for the lunar base. This new focus begins with “up to 30 robotic landings in three years, starting in 2027,” and at least two manned landings per year beginning in 2028.
The graph below, presented during today’s announcement, shows the basic plan for the next few Artemis missions, which will act as the manned foundation for this entire surface-focused program. The overall program will build out the lunar base in three phases, first to test some basic infrastructure using these smaller lunar landers, second to begin establishing the base’s foundational components with intermittent manned missions, and third to begin long-term human occupancy.
In a town where most celebrities can’t be bothered to acknowledge the military unless it’s a Veterans Day photo op with a sepia filter, one Hollywood star just did something that shouldn’t be remarkable — but absolutely is.
Sydney Sweeney, the actress best known for stealing scenes in Euphoria and The White Lotus, took to her Instagram Stories to share a photo of her brother and deliver a message so simple it apparently short-circuited half the internet.
“Receiving calls from my bro always make me happy when he’s deployed,” Sweeney wrote.
And then she committed the unforgivable sin of being publicly grateful to the United States Armed Forces.
“Thinking of all our boys and girls overseas and sending my love! Thank you for your service :)”
2 hospitalized after altercation involving ax, gun, state police say
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White House officials edited messaging on the finding that there was a higher-than-expected number of strokes following COVID-19 vaccination, according to newly released documents.
In January 2023, during the Biden administration, the White House changed wording on post-vaccination ischemic stroke from "moderately elevated" to "slightly elevated," the records show.
Officials also made other changes, including removing the words "potential risk."
DRIVE-BY MEDIA: The New York Times hired a new infographic team to criticize everything. The latest example is the new White House ballroom. I like John’s satirical critique of a US carrier. 🤣
MUST WATCH: Marie Harf: “Wait, why are we so scared of tr*ns people?”
Kayleigh McEnany: “We’re scared of biological men competing against women. Pummeling young women.” ⁰⁰“Do you want a biological man wrestling a woman? Do you want a biological man spiking a ball at a woman?”… pic.twitter.com/SpAaFQarRy
Blue Checkmark: The US hit Iran's heavy water production facility in order to kill Iranian citizens with thirst.
Not only will Iranians die of thirst because of the destruction of the heavy water plant, they will die of hunger from the destruction of yellowcake https://t.co/ZVg585iCyE
"Heavy water" is water in which the hydrogen atoms have neutrons. Most hydrogen is just a single proton. Heavy water is needed for nuclear reactors. It moderates the kinetic energy of the neutrons released during fission, to keep the nuclear reaction from getting out of hand and melting down the reactor.
In Iran's case, it is used in reactors to produce weapons-grade uranium. No one drinks it. I guess you could drink it but heavy water is extremely expensive. I'd guess, tens of thousands of dollars per ounce.
Saad Nizamani
@nizamanisaad1
Translated from Urdu
I write not with words, but with feelings.
I learn from nature, I reach the hearts.
Hyderabad, Pakistan
I was informed by All the Best People (TM) that this would never, ever happen.
cc: @AceofSpadesHQ first choice - die. before offering paid medication. --------- give pain medication to a suffering woman. You relieve paid today.
FBI director pushes to release investigative files on Rep. Eric Swalwell: Reports
FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing for the release of files related to an investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell's (D-Calif.) interactions with a suspected Chinese spy, according to reports from The New York Times and The Washington Post.
FBI agents and other personnel in California have been directed to gather and redact sensitive information from documents in preparation for sharing with senior Trump administration officials, according to The New York Times, citing three people familiar with the matter.
The files stem from a decade-old counterintelligence probe into a Chinese woman, known both as Christine Fang and Fang Fang, who reportedly helped Swalwell with fundraising and placing an intern in his office during the 2014 campaign cycle.
Swalwell was not accused of criminal wrongdoing and severed ties with Fang in 2015 after being briefed by U.S. intelligence officials on their suspicions of her. A two-year House Ethics probe into the matter concluded in 2023 without taking any further action.
The public release of files in an investigation that did not result in criminal charges would mark a highly unusual step, the Post noted.
Oh, like when they released the Mueller Report about the Russiagate hoax?
Swalwell has for years accused the Trump administration of weaponizing the issue against him in retaliation for his criticisms of the president.
Are you kidding me? He's one of the main weaponizers in Congress.
Note that The Hill points none of this out.
On Saturday, he suggested the FBI's alleged actions were tied to his rising standing in the California governor's race.
Oh! You mean the Administration is trying to interfere with an upcoming election by releasing files?
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In a statement to the Post, an FBI spokesperson denied improper motives regarding the investigative files.
"The contentions in this story are incorrect," the spokesperson told the newspaper. "This FBI, being the most transparent in history, prepares documents for numerous different reasons, including for release to different agencies and departments to further review investigations that may have been opened under previous administrations."
Swalwell said in September that he "fully" expected to be prosecuted by the Trump administration, pointing to his name in a book written by Patel in which he listed "government gangsters" who should be held accountable.
Related: The media screamed for years that someone allegedly hacked DNC emails, and that person was, it was claimed but never proven, acting in concert with Russia.
"RUSSIA IS RIGGING THE ELECTION TO HELP THE TRAITOR TRUMP,' they screamed as if all reading from the same script.
Patel wasn't even the FBI director when this hack took place. This was back in 2020 and 2021 -- when Patel was a congressional investigator primarily known for uncovering the RussiaGate hoax concocted by Hillary Clinton.
Hackers connected to the Iranian government accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and posted materials -- including photos and documents -- taken from his account, a person familiar with the breach confirmed to CNN.
The hackers have published a series of photos of Patel from before he became FBI director that they claim were stolen from his personal email account. A source familiar with the incident confirmed the images' authenticity.
The stolen emails appear to date from around 2011 to 2022 and appear to include personal, business and travel correspondence that Patel had with various contacts, according to a preliminary CNN review of the files with the help of an independent cybersecurity researcher.
The federal sentencing guidelines call for a sentence of 30 to 37 months, or 2 1/2 to 3 years in prison.
But the Somali Pirate's corrupt judge cut even that small sentence in half. Or in thirds.
Feeding Our Future defendant sentenced to over 1 year in prison
Another Feeding Our Future defendant was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison on Monday morning. He is scheduled to turn himself in to federal prison on June 2.
Abdul Abubakar Ali pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in October 2022. Per the terms of the plea agreement, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and one count of wire fraud were dismissed at sentencing.
As previously reported, Ali used nonprofit Youth Investors Lab to enroll in the Federal Child Nutrition Program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future. He claimed to serve roughly 1.5 million meals total and that the meals were provided by S & S Catering. But no meals were ever served, prosecutors say.
Remarkably, both the government and the defense advocated for a probationary sentence, noting that Ali has taken responsibility for his actions, given valuable information to investigators and paid $92,500 in restitution so far.
Wow, $92,000. And he took responsibility for his actions?
However, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Brasel determined that Ali's role in the fraud scheme was too great for a probationary sentence. She noted that Ali recruited a friend to participate in the scheme and completely made up meal counts, rather than just exaggerating them.
Were You Inconvenienced by the Decrepit White Hippies During the CCP- and Soros-Funded No Kings Shuffle-Abouts?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
Mar 28
I got stuck in the middle of one of the idiotic CCP funded No Kings protests with my kid in this morning.
First of all it was 15 people. They were all white and over the age of 65 and lastly, if you continue to walk around with signs that say No Kings, you look like an idiot.
Literally no one was under the age of 65 in the whole crowd.
Fetishist 'No Kings' protester in mask drags 'Trump' and 'JD Vance' behind her wheelchair
The "No Kings" protest in Atlanta took a turn for the weird as a masked artist dragged unhinged cosplayers dressed as President Trump and Vice President JD Vance behind her wheelchair.
Video of the street protest sideshow circulating online shows activist Jessica Blinkhorn clad in a black sheer skirt, a leather tube top and a full facemask reminiscent of "Mad Max: Fury Road" villain Immortan Joe seated in a motorized wheelchair as her fellow dress-up players awkwardly gyrate to techno music.
The Georgia State University teacher and self-described "DOGEWALKER" holds a metal leash in one hand, which is connected to a collar worn by a person wearing a Trump mask and dressed in his signature blue suit, red tie and MAGA hat, and a woman who appears to be mimicking Erika Kirk.
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"This is performance as protest. This is art in action," Blinkhorn wrote in an Instagram post accompanying the unhinged video.
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Blinkhorn has been awarded in the art world for her performance pieces about sex and disability. He received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024 -- a prestigious award that comes with tens of thousands of dollars in grant money -- for her project SPANKBOX.
The art "depicts individuals with physical disabilities in hypersexualized poses and situations," according to the fellowship.
Robert DeNiro -- or, as I think this genius should be called, Bobby "The Brain" DeNiro -- stumbled and mumbled his way through a gibberish speech written for him by ChatGTP.
C3
@C_3C_3
Mar 28
No Kings crybaby and terminal TDS patient Robert DeNiro...
Has lost roughly $350 million on his last 5 movies.
Whoops!
For decades people praised DeNiro for somehow managing to make his eyes empty and absent. Turns out, no, he's not a great actor, he's just brain-damaged IRL. When he "portrays" a man with no inner monologue who seems to be an animal motivated only by primitive instinct, that's just him.
LMAO 🤣. No kings protester completely LOSES IT and STORMS AWAY when the interviewer points out that nobody voted for Kamala and she was installed as the nominee pic.twitter.com/k4soNACCuS
HOLY CRAP!! A Palm Beach elections office volunteer just got arrested for STEALING an encrypted access key and computer equipment in the March 24 special election where the Democrat won by 800 votes
This is the district the includes Mar-a-Lago.
Investigators worry that the encryption -- used for training -- could be reverse engineered and used to tamper with voter registration
The theft was reported on March 27, a few days after last Tuesday's special election, per WPTV. The theft occurred on March 19, just days before election day
"During the search of [John] Panicci's home, detectives recovered the stolen items along with a substantial amount of electronic and digital storage devices. Panicci was transported to the Palm Beach County Jail and booked on charges."
Election integrity is vital to our republic.
If it's happening in Florida -- IT'S HAPPENING NATIONWIDE
Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
You wondered how Democrat Emily Gregory defeated Trump-endorsed Republican Jon Maples by roughly 797--800 votes (51.2% to 48.8%, out of about 33,400 votes cast in a low-turnout special).
The district had previously been held by a Republican who won by a much larger margin in 2024.
FACTS: On March 19, during a volunteer training session at the elections office (4301 Cherry Road) ahead of the March 24 special election, Panicci allegedly stole an encrypted access key from a voter registration terminal. Surveillance photos reportedly captured the act.
He maintains a Facebook profile under John Panicci (@JohnWPB), describing himself as a "huge tech nerd."
The key was programmed only for training databases, not live voter registration or election systems. However, investigators expressed concern that someone technically skilled could reverse-engineer the encryption and misuse it in a real kiosk.
The theft was reported to detectives on March 27. They identified Panicci, obtained search and arrest warrants, and executed them at his Lake Worth/Greenacres-area home on March 28. They recovered the stolen key and equipment, plus a large amount of other electronic and digital storage devices.
He faces charges related to theft of computer equipment/property crimes (including taking/damaging electronic devices). He was booked into Palm Beach County Jail and held on $6,000 bail, with a no-contact order regarding the elections office. The investigation is ongoing, including a review of seized devices.
It appears that Panicci was in communication with Debbie Wasserman Schultz's DC office over a dozen times since Christmas.
If you recall, Wasserman and her Assistant United States Attorney (federal prosecutor) in the District of Columbia, brother, Steven Wasserman, who bungled the case, provided cover for the Awan brothers (Imran Awan, Abid Awan, and Jamal Awan), who were Pakistani-American IT staffers who worked as shared/contracted technicians for numerous Democratic members of Congress.
What? Skeleton of the most famous Musketeer, D'Artagnan, possibly discovered in Dutch church closet. Dumas picked four names of real musketeers out of a history book, D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. So there was an actual D'Artagnan, though he made most of the story up. (Or, you know, all of it.)*
Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known as d'Artagnan, the famous musketeer of Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, spent his life in the service of the French crown.
The Gascon nobleman inspired Alexandre Dumas's hero in "The Three Musketeers" in the 19th century, a character now known worldwide thanks to the novel and numerous film adaptations.
D'Artagnan was killed during the siege of Maastricht in 1673, and there is a statue honoring the musketeer in the city. His final resting place has remained a mystery ever since.
A lot of Dumas's stories are based on bits of real history. The plot of the >Three Musketeers, about trying to recover lost diamonds from the queen's necklace, was cribbed from the then-almost-contemporaneous Affair of the Queen's Necklace. And the Man in the Iron Mask is based on real accounts of a prisoner forced to wear a mask (though I think it was a velvet mask).
* Oh, I should mention, Dumas says all this, about finding the names in an old book, in the prologue to his novel. But authors lie a lot. They frequently present fictions as based on historic fact. The twist is, he was actually telling the truth here. At least about these four musketeers having actually existed and served under Louis XIV. Fun fact: You know the beginning of A Fistful of Dollars where the local gunslingers make fun of Clint Eastwood's donkey and Eastwood demands they apologize to the donkey? That's lifted from The Three Musketeers. Rochefort mocks D'Artagnan's old, brokedown farm horse and D'Artagnan is incensed.
A commenter asked which should be read first, The Hobbit of LOTR? Easy, no question -- read The Hobbit first. It's actually the start of the story and comes first chronologically. It sets up some major characters and major pieces in play in LOTR. Also, the Hobbit is Beginner-Friendly, which LOTR isn't. The Hobbit really is a delightful book, and a fast read. It's chatty, it's casual, it's exciting, and it's funny. In that dry cheeky British humor way. I love that the narrator is constantly making little asides and commentary, like he's just sitting next to you telling you this story as it occurs to him.
LOTR is a very long story. Fifteen hundred pages or so. The Hobbit is relatively short and very punchy and easy to read. If you don't like The Hobbit, you can skip out on LOTR. If you do like it, you'll be primed to read LOTR.
Oh, I should say: The Hobbit is written as if it's for children, but one of those smart children's stories that are also for adults. Don't worry, there's also real fighting and violence and horror in it, too. LOTR is written for adults. (It's said that Tolkien wrote both for his children, but LOTR was written 17 years later, when his children were adults.) Some might not like The Hobbit due to its sometimes frivolous tone. Me, I love it. I find it constantly amusing. Both are really good but there is a starkly different tone to both. LOTR is epic, grand, and serious, about a world war, The Hobbit is light and breezy, and about a heist. Though a heist that culminates in a war for the spoils.
The Hobbit Challenge: Read two more chapters. I didn't have much time. Bilbo got the ring.
I noticed a continuity problem. Maybe. Now, as of the time of The Hobbit, it was unknown that this magic ring was in fact a Ring of Power, and it was doubly unknown that it was the Ring of Power, the Master Ring that controlled the others.
But the narrator -- who we will learn in LOTR was none of than Bilbo himself, who wrote the book as "There and Back Again" -- says this about Gollum's ring:
"But who knows how Gollum had come by that present [the Ring], ages ago in the old days when such rings were still at large in the world? Perhaps even the Master who ruled them could not have said."
In another passage, the ring is identified as a "ring of power."
I don't know, I always thought there was a distinction between mere magic rings and the Rings of Power created by Sauron. But this suggests that Bilbo knew this was a ring of power created by Sauron.
Now I don't remember when Bilbo wrote the Hobbit. In the movie, he shows Frodo the book in Rivendell, and I guess he wrote it after he left the Shire. I guess he might have added in the part about the ring being a ring of power created by "the Master" after Gandalf appraised him of his research into the ring. I never noticed this before. I know Tolkien re-wrote this chapter while he was writing LOTR to make the ring important from the start. And also to make Gollum more sinister and evil, and also to remove the part where Gollum actually offers Bilbo the ring as a "present" -- Bilbo had already found it on his own, but Gollum was wiling to give it away, which obviously is not something the rewritten Gollum would ever do. But I had no memory of the ring being suggested to be The Ring so early in the tale.
Finish the job, Mr. President! Melanie Phillips lays out the case for the total destruction of the Iranian government and armed forces. [CBD]
Podcast: Sefton and CBD talk about how would a peace treaty with Iran work, Democrats defending murderers and rapists, The GOP vs. Dem bench for 2028, composting bodies? And more!
Oh, I forgot to mention this quote from Pete Hegseth, reported by Roger Kimball: "We are sharing the ocean with the Iranian Navy. We're giving them the bottom half."
Tomorrow is March 25th, "Tolkien Reading Day," because March 25th is the day when the Ring is destroyed in the book. I think I'm going to start the Hobbit tomorrow and read all four books this time. The only bad part of the trilogy are the Frodo/Sam chapters in The Two Towers. They're repetitive, slow, and mostly about the weather and terrain. But most everything else is good. Weirdly, the Frodo-Sam chapters in Return of the King are exciting and action-packed and among the best in the trilogy. (Though the chapters with everyone else in Return of the King get pretty slow again. Mostly people talking about marching towards war, and then marching towards war.)
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click
One day I'm gonna write a poem in a letter
One day I'm gonna get that faculty together
Remember that everybody has to wait in line
Oh, [Song Title], look out world, oh, you know I've got mine
“robert mueller just died,” trump wrote in a truth social post on march 21. “good, i’m glad he’s dead. he can no longer hurt innocent people! president donald j. trump.”
