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May 07, 2026

ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Child Predators Working as Staff Around Children on a Disney Cruise Ship
Plus: Seattle's Woke Wallflower Communist Mayor Exceeds Even My High Expectations for Excellence

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Well, it is the Disney Groomer Corporation so I understand why they felt they were welcomed to hunt for prey on the ship.

A group of alleged child predators were arrested after they'd been working around children and families aboard a Disney cruise.

They were apprehended by the same immigration agents Democrats want to defund.

KNSD reported Wednesday that a Disney cruise docked in San Diego after a trip with stops in Ensenada, Baja California, as well as Catalina Island, where federal agents took several employees into custody.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Sandra Grisolia released a statement about the raid:

"On April 28, HSI San Diego arrested twenty-three crewmembers from multiple cruise ships at the Port of San Diego as part of Operation Tidal Wave. The arrests targeted individuals suspected of involvement with Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), based on information received from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children."

"The arrestees were transported to Los Angeles for processing, and their visas were revoked," the ICE spokeswoman continued.

The New York Post clarified that it's unclear which other ships from companies outside of Disney may have been involved.

Dharmi Mehta, a passenger on a Disney cruise, said that witnessing the arrests was "really unsettling."

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Benjamin Prado from Union del Barrio stated, "This is not an isolated incident," adding, "In fact, it has become a growing pattern, not only here in San Diego but throughout this country.

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The Morning Rant

—CBD

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Funny how governments obfuscate their financial decisions with high-minded platitudes about the social good and moving forward and building community. The Norwegian government decided to reopen those fields for one reason...tax receipts from the sale of that natural gas will be through the roof. And then they will be able to pay (for a little while) for the massive welfare state that has developed in the last 25 years, as the immigrant population has tripled. Yes...tripled! 6% in 2000, to 18% today.

Norway to Reopen 3 Gas Fields Shut Down in 1998

Norway has approved plans to reopen three gas fields in the North Sea that were shut down nearly three decades ago, a move the government says will support European energy security.

The Ministry of Energy said on May 5 that it has approved development plans for the Albuskjell, Vest Ekofisk, and Tommeliten Gamma fields, all located in the Ekofisk area in the southern North Sea.

The fields were discovered in the 1970s and began production between 1977 and 1988, but were closed in 1998 during a redevelopment of the Ekofisk field.

Norwegian Energy Minister Terje Aasland said the reopening showed the continuing value of Norway’s offshore assets.


Norway is positioned well in comparison to most of the rest of Europe, because they are almost entirely powered by hydro power. They use petroleum for profit, which sounds good, but they are unbelievably smug and hypocritical about going carbon-zero domestically, because they pay for it with petroleum exports!

Gas will be exported to Emden in Germany, while condensate, a light liquid hydrocarbon that is separated from natural gas, will be sent to Teesside in the UK.

Unlike Norway, Germany has moved more cautiously, backing limited domestic and cross-border gas projects, while the UK’s major new North Sea projects remain caught between energy–security arguments, court rulings, and a government net-zero policy shift away from new drilling licenses.

Germany and the UK are collaborating on net-zero goals—the total “decarbonization” of all sectors away from fossil fuels—with Germany targeting 2045 and the UK 2050.


Ah yes...the two European economies failing the fastest! Destroying domestic energy production, welcoming millions of 3rd world savages who are busily draining the government coffers while simultaneously catering to their every cultural demand does not sound like a solid basis for a 21st century economy! Germany is particularly suicidal...they had 19 functioning nuclear power plants in 2000, and today? Zero. None. At least the UK only cut nuclear power by half, not the absolutely insanity of the Germans.

But both countries are fixated on carbon-zero economies, and both countries will fail. Perhaps they can repurpose their highways and use them for solar generation? Nobody will be able to drive anyway. Or start cutting down their forests for a few years' worth of heating. That would work!

It is impossible to run a modern economy on renewables, except for a few small countries that have hydro or geothermal. The other technologies simply don't work. The sun doesn't shine very much at night, and the wind doesn't blow 24 hours a day! Plus, the destructiveness of solar and wind is the dirty little secret of the environmental lobbies. Solar is inefficient and sucks up huge amounts of land. Wind generation is also inefficient, uses a huge amount of petroleum during construction, and is famously unreliable. Then at the end of their functional lives, these installations are enormously difficult to recycle. Mostly they get dumped into land fills!

And the upshot of all of this communist/environmental nonsense is that electricity rates in Germany have almost tripled since 2000. And in the UK? Pretty much the same! But all of those Germans and Brits can feel satisfied that they are saving the earth! as they freeze in the winter and boil in the summer.

At least the Germans can enjoy their fast cars for a little while longer on those good highways of theirs...right? Except that their fuel costs between double and triple what ours costs.

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at their predicament. They have no one to blame except themselves and their feckless leaders. In 50 years, when the UK and Germany are the poorest countries in Europe, and on the fast track to being governed by Sharia law, I wonder whether their citizenry will question their decisions, or will they continue to blame everyone else?

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The Morning Report — 5/ 7/26

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids. I recall a wise-ass riddle from my childhood that went What word starts with an "F" and ends in "-u-c-k?" The echo of childish tittering from long ago and far away fades into the abject revulsion of today:

The slip occurred when the debate segued into the destructive Palisades Fire of 2025 and reports that dozens of fire trucks were in need of repair prior to that fateful day. It was when Bass had to utter the word “trucks” that another word slipped out. “So yes, there were fire trucks that were broken, but there were also fire fucks,” Bass said before she immediately corrected herself to say “trucks that were out of use.”

No it's not the broken trucks that were the problem it was her and Gavin Newsom's politically-driven ineptitude and incompetence that caused one of the most expensive and beautiful neighborhoods in Los Angeles and America to be reduced to ashes and rubble, and more than a year later to remain a ruin and a monument to insane leftist policies. "Fire Fucks" indeed. Both of them should have been fired long ago and in a sane world should never have been within a billion light years from any position of political power. And it's not just them but the political party and movement that they are floating near the top of. Barring some unforeseen dark horse candidate Greasy Greaseball Newsom, despite being white, male and publicly non-homo, will probably be at the top of the ticket in 2028.

As a reminder, California was once the 6th largest economy in the world, and a place that for generations Americans flocked to, as a place to live the American dream. Now people with an ounce of sanity are fleeing California in droves. The Democrats are not necessarily worried about that . . .

Democrat California Gov. candidate Katie Porter inadvertently revealed the real reason leftist politicians are pushing for sanctuary cities.

Porter let the mask slip during Tuesday night’s gubernatorial debate and admitted that illegal immigration is one of “the only ways [California] has been growing in recent years,” seemingly embracing the replacement of American residents with foreigners. Notably, the deep blue state has welcomed illegals to the tune of millions while an estimated 10 million California residents have fled the state in the last decade.

And as if you weren't aware, they may be here illegally but every one of them is a registered Democrat who votes, early and often I'd bet. And for their troubles they are given welfare to the tune now of hundreds of billions of dollars, as was uncovered in Minnesota and in Ohio and surprise, surprise California.

Elsewhere this item just underscores the utter evil of Democrat/Leftism:

A Chicago alderman is calling for “corporate” criminal charges against the pharmacy chain Walgreens for its plan to close a store on the city’s troubled South Side over concerns over retail theft and violence at the drugstore. “We’re not here to beg Walgreens to stay,” Ward 6 Alderman Will Hall said at news conference, surrounded by local community members. “We are saying that their decision is the wrong decision my opinion. In my opinion, it should be considered a first-degree corporate crime. Because the amount of people that will be hurt by this, the amount of elders who will not have access to healthcare is evil.”

What's evil is causing the breakdown of the family and decriminalizing crime while blaming free market capitalism, America and our society which allowed Chicago to become a one-time flourishing megalopolis, unlike the decaying hellhole it is today thanks to vermin like this alderman and his ilk.

Well, once this Mamdani-wannabe seizes the means of production and all private property, paradise on earth will be achieved, just like in the Soviet Union. Or Cuba.

And speaking of Cuba:

During a press briefing on Cuba on Tuesday, Jayapal spoke about how, in January, President Donald Trump had signed an executive order “declaring a national emergency over the threats to America posed by Cuba.” In a post on X, Scott responded to Jayapal’s comments in which she described the sanctions against countries giving oil to Cuba, and firms and banks working with Cuba, as “an economic bombing of the infrastructure of Cuba.”

“DISTURBING: @RepJeffries and @HouseDemocrats, members of your party are OPENLY admitting to aiding a communist adversary in coordination with foreign countries to VIOLATE American sanctions,” Scott wrote. “@POTUS put those sanctions in place to keep Americans SAFE and to hold the Castro/Díaz-Canel regime accountable for their crimes.”

So, where are the arrests and prosecutions RIck Scott, and President Trump?! The world wonders...

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Daily News Stuff 7 May 2026

—Pixy Misa

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Wednesday Night ONT - May 6, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

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Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace and Megyn free zone. Please.

Will you be smarter after reading this ONT? Will you be better looking? Will you be more fun at parties? Will you lose weight? Will you be wealthier? Will you be more fashionable? If you skip the content, you'll never know!

[Top photo: Pilgrimage Church of St. Bartholomew,Königssee, Bavaria, Germany]

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Humpday Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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by @klucaptures

Baby is bad at fetch.

The perils of a feminized culture.

Puppy therapy.

ICYMI: Dog helps fold a giant tarp.

German shepherd nanny is defeated by doberman puppies.

Test pool for Coast Guard swimmers simulates ocean chop. They also have one for dogs.

Bears are out of control.

Summer's almost here.

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Will Fetterman Flip?

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Will Lumpy Jack finally assume full control over the body?


Lumpy Jack is blasting Democrats for supporting "Hamas/Hezballah shitheads."


Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., described protesters who demonstrated in New York City on Tuesday as "Pro-Hezbollah / Hamas s[---]heads," and indicated that the Democratic Party should speak out against them.

"Mob of Pro-Hezbollah / Hamas s[---]heads raging against law enforcement and terrorizing the NYC Jewish community near a synagogue and day care," Fetterman wrote in a Wednesday post on X.

"Where's my party's condemnation?"


Fetterman made the comments when sharing a post on X that featured video footage in which people could be heard engaging in what sounded like an anti-Zionist chant.

By the way, I wanted to link Fetterman saying "I can't see continuing as a Democrat" and "the party has lost their way" but I could not find video of Lumpy Jack actually saying that and that's because he didn't say it. Those quotes are from a parody site called "Nothing on this Site is Real."

Just wanted to give you a heads up about that fake news.

But it still is possible that he'll become an independent. The party is determined to purge him.

And the GOP is trying to flip him.

If Fetterman does flip, according to officials who were given anonymity to talk about sensitive matters, it will be thanks in large part to his deepening friendship with a pair of senators and their high-profile spouses: Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), and his wife Dina, and Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and her husband, Wesley.

But the first-term Democrat -- who's infuriated his party with his harder line on immigration and staunch support for Israel, Trump nominees, government funding bills and most recently the president's ballroom -- isn't yet persuaded.

"I'm not changing," Fetterman told me in an interview Friday when I asked if he was ruling out both becoming a Republican or turning independent. "I'm a Democrat, and I'm staying one. "

Yet, at least in private, he's not totally rejecting dropping his "D."

When one senior Republican recently brought up the idea of becoming an independent to Fetterman, he absorbed the suggestion and didn't embrace or reject the overture, according to a GOP official familiar with the conversation.

In our interview, Fetterman said bluntly: "I'd be a shitty Republican."

There are his votes against big-ticket measures, such as last year's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, but also his liberal views on a raft of cultural issues.

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Fetterman has raised these same doubts about how welcome he'd be as a Republican to his GOP colleagues, too, I'm told by sources briefed on the conversations.

If Republicans can't tolerate even Tillis, Fetterman suggested, how would they accept somebody who supports abortion rights, gay rights, legalizing marijuana and is pro-labor? (He flies the pride flag outside his Senate office.) Senate Republicans have reminded the Pennsylvanian that there are members of their conference who are more moderate on each of those issues.

Trump, who knows a thing or two about party switching, has also gotten in on the action. He's told one GOP senator he prefers Fetterman making the full conversion to Republican, according to a source familiar with the conversation.

And Trump has said, if Fetterman does, he'd reciprocate. In his typical unsubtle fashion, the president conveyed as much to Sean Hannity in March and asked Hannity to play intermediary.

Fetterman's announced 2028 Democrat primary opponent is leaving death threats for his thirteen year old daughter.

Ben Hart @BenHart_Freedom

BREAKING 🚨: Here's one reason John Fetterman is giving serious consideration to becoming a Republican.

A Democrat named Raymond Eugene Chandler III, who was planning to run against Fetterman in the Senate primary for 2028, was arrested by the FBI on May 1 for leaving multiple voicemails with death threats and graphic obscene messages on the voice mail of Fetterman's 13-year-old daughter.

Chandler also threatened to kill President Trump.

Chandler had declared his candidacy for the 2028 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, positioning himself as a "leftist" or progressive primary challenger to Fetterman, running on a platform of wealth redistribution.

Like most Americans, Fetterman is coming to the realization that today's Democrat Party is no longer the Party of JFK -- who was patriotic, pro-life, pro-God, very anti-communist, and pro-capitalist.

But today's Democrat Party has become the party of political assassination, violence, mental illness, and hatred of America.

Today's Democrat Party actively roots for Iran to defeat America and our troops.

Today's Democrats are the party of open borders, lawlessness, election fraud, and using the schools to indoctrinate our children into radical Left LGBTQ ideology (including encouraging children as young as kindergarten to undergo gender transition surgeries).

Today's Democrat Party actively works for America's destruction at every level. And John Fetterman has had enough.

There are reports that President Trump has had conversations with John Fetterman, has offered him massive financial backing, and Trump's endorsement.

Some say: "But Fetterman usually votes with the Democrats."

True.

But my experience is people change their voting behavior and views when they make the decision to switch sides.

Both Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan were Democrats at one point. Reagan famously said: "I did not leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left me.

I consider myself to be a JFK-style Democrat.

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I think John Fetterman is coming to the same realization.

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Millionaire Celebrities Protest the 1% at the Billionaire-Sponsored Met Gala

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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Former celebrity and they/them Sam Smith,
aging like fine milk

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Fallen pop ditz Katy Perry, wearing a stylish
anti-identification sexual assault mask

I've personally hit my Duane Johnson Endurance Limit. How about you?

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Left-wing Terrorist Set Fire to the Palisades to Honor the Democrats' Murderer-Hero, Luigi Mangione

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Party of Plunder... and Murder.

Alleged Palisades arsonist became 'fixated' with Luigi Mangione, said blaze started 'out of resentment of the rich': prosecutors

The deranged firebug accused of igniting the devastating Palisades Fire had become "fixated" on Luigi Mangione in the lead-up to the deadly blaze -- and then allegedly suggested the inferno was started out of "resentment of the rich," prosecutors said.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, was obsessed with the accused health care CEO killer and had routinely searched "free Luigi Mangione" and "lets take down all the billionaires" online, court documents show.

In the weeks and hours before allegedly sparking the blaze that triggered the catastrophic Palisades Fire, Rinderknecht -- who worked as an Uber driver -- ranted to customers about Mangione's arrest, too.

"Many of defendant's Uber passengers on December 31, 2024 and January 1, 2025, described defendant as angry, intense, driving erratically, and ranting about being 'pissed off at the world' and Luigi Mangione, capitalism, and vigilantism," prosecutors noted in a trial memorandum.

When asked why someone would ultimately set the blaze, Rinderknecht allegedly responded that it "would be out of resentment of the rich enjoying their money as 'we're basically being enslaved by them' and compared such an act of 'desperation' to the murder for which Mangione was charged," according to the memo.

He murdered 12 people and caused hundreds of billions of damage.

More at Instapundit.

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The FBI Raids the Home and Offices of the Virginia State Senator Pro Tempore Louise Lucas on Suspicions of Corruption

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Were there any signs she might be involved in crime or corruption? Well, she owns a string of pot dispensaries.

Oh, and she's a black female Democrat with a triple layer of Anti-Accountability Armor.

So no, no signs at all.

Selling legalized weed -- which she campaigned for and voted for as a senator -- wasn't enough.

She also sold illegal weed.

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The NYT:

"Two people familiar with the case said the search was related to an investigation opened during the Biden administration that has continued, examining possible corruption and bribery related to marijuana dispensary businesses."


I wonder if JackStraw knows her. He enjoys the Wacky Weed so he is probably best friends with the so-called "420 Grandma." All these Potties have each other on speed-dial.

Speed dial more like weed dial, amirite

A report from Tony Sergura:

FBI agents--armed with multiple federal search warrants signed by a judge--are raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, the Democratic powerhouse, first Black woman in that role, Finance Committee chair, and architect of the state's aggressive 10-1 redistricting map. Federal sources tie it to a major corruption investigation. The warrants extend next door... to the Cannabis Outlet she co-owns--the very dispensary this self-proclaimed "420 Grandma" championed while co-sponsoring legalization and blurring the lines between legislator and cannabis entrepreneur.

Lucas, a close ally of CIA plant Gov. Abigail Spanberger and a force in Virginia politics since 1992, once dismissed U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner as "cucks in the corner" while engineering her party's electoral firewall. Irony doesn't get more poetic. Power's intoxicating brew--redistricting dominance, business interests in cannabis (with past reports of mislabeled high-THC products), and care facilities--now meets the cold scrutiny of federal law enforcement.

"Care facilities"? Oh no-- isn't that Democrats' favorite vehicle for pillaging the public funds?

And indeed, not only does this illicit drug dealer own pot stores, she also runs a facility for the mentally retarded.

And she just happens to be in charge of regulating her own easily-abused business.

And, get this, she proposed and then voted for a special payment bump for her own business.

But Lucas presents the Senate with an issue. The close alignment of her private business and her public obligations and authorities raises issues of public perception and Senate integrity.

For 28 years, she has operated a business, Lucas Lodge LLC, that provides Medicaid-funded services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

She serves and has served for years on two committees that are completely intertwined with her business:

The Senate Committee on Education and Healthcare (since 1994) oversees the regulator of her business, the Department of Behavioral Health and Disability Services (DBHDS), and the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS), also known as Virginia Medicaid, and writes the laws with which Lucas Lodge must comply. The Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations (since 2008 ), of which she is now chair, funds the operations of both agencies and Virginia Medicaid, which, as indicated earlier, pays Lucas Lodge for services.

The situation remains, at best, awkward for the Senate. It just got worse.

This year, Sen. Lucas is the patron of the Senate Budget Bill (SB-30), which amended the baseline budget submitted by Gov. Youngkin. Item 291 #4s in that bill, Developmental Disability Waiver Rates for Selected Services, will specifically increase Lucas Lodge's Medicaid payments above the baseline. Sen. Lucas's budget bill passed her committee and the Senate floor.

SB 30 will be the starting point for the Senate in the upcoming Special Session negotiations that she will lead.

We'll see what happens.

Although people are talking mostly about her pot business, I bet the more serious corruption charges will involve pilfering Medicaid money. It's the Democrats' main business at this point.

Update:

she also runs a facility for the mentally retarded.

Yep. The VA Senate.

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Justin Baldoni Settles With Amber Heard 2.0, Claims He Paid Her Zero Dollars and Is Very "Pleased" With the Outcome

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Subhed: Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?

Before getting to that, I wanted to mention a story that broke a few weeks ago, but I didn't figure you'd care all that much.

But I think it's semi-important in that it seems to indicate that Hollywood bitches and bastards routinely employ "crisis PR firms" to plant and spread disgraceful, wholly invented defamations against people they're trying to wheedle money (or credit, or power) out of.

AI Summary:

Rebel Wilson's crisis PR team, specifically identified as The Agency Group (TAG), has been deeply involved in legal controversies surrounding the production of her 2024 film The Deb.

Rebel Wilson played "Fat Amy" in the Pitch Perfect movies, and was also in Bridesmaids as the weird roommate. She went on Ozempic and lost some weight, and I guess is now trying to move from supporting comic relief actress to leading lady.

Leaked audio and court documents from March and April 2026 revealed that team members allegedly planned a "heavy" smear campaign against producer Amanda Ghost.

Key Details Regarding the PR Team (as of April/May 2026):

The Agency Group (TAG): This crisis firm, which has worked with other high-profile figures, was allegedly hired by Wilson in 2024 to manage disputes with The Deb producers.

Key Individuals: Leaked audio allegedly captured digital fixer Jed Wallace instructing publicist Melissa Nathan to paint producer Amanda Ghost as a "madame" and "sex trafficker" to ruin her reputation.

"Digital fixer"? I take that to mean someone employed to smear people online.

Internal Communication: In a revealing, court-referenced text message, a TAG employee described Rebel Wilson as "f---ing nuts," as reported in People.

Yeah I got that sense.

Allegations of Smear Sites: Court documents in Sydney and California allege that Wilson directed her team to launch malicious websites (e.g., "AmandaGhostSucks.com") that claimed producer Amanda Ghost preyed on young women.

All these people know is making up defamations about pedophilia about their enemies to gain power or extract wealth.

Denial of Involvement: While these leaked recordings and messages have surfaced, Rebel Wilson has denied in court that she authorized the smear campaign against her colleagues.

Previous Legal Representation: The team was previously associated with high-profile Hollywood lawyer Bryan Freedman, who has represented other celebrities in crisis cases.

Coincidentally, I'm sure, Bryan Freedman's clients include Tucker Carlson and Me-Again Kelly. Apparently he's now representing Justin Baldoni against Blake Lively.

The scandal is part of a larger, ongoing Australian defamation lawsuit (April/May 2026) brought against Wilson by actress Charlotte MacInnes regarding these same disputes.

So, is this just Hollywood SOP? And did the Democrats' symbiotic relationship with Hollywood normalize the idea of just making up the Pee-Pee Dossier? Did Obama's palling around with Hollywood cocksuckers convince him it was okay to weaponize the obviously-fake dossier, because that's just how the game is played?

As you might know -- or might also have completely tuned out -- fading low/mid-level TV actress Blake Lively decided that she wanted ownership over a would-be romance movie franchise. The movie made good money for a romance, and there are other books to adapt, so it's a valuable bit of IP.

So she made up a raft of apparently-false defamations against the franchise's producer/director/owner (well, he owns the film rights to the book series it's based on) accusing him of sexual harassment. The object of this seemingly-fabricated defamation campaign was to pressure him to turn over control of the series to her.

She filed a (seemingly false) lawsuit against him, leaked news of that lawsuit to friendly media outlets, and got her fancy Hollywood friends like Taylor Swift and her douchebag husband Ryan Reynolds to join the crusade against this man. He filed retaliatory lawsuits in return, alleging defamation.

A judge dismissed most of the counts against Baldoni, but three survived.

And now all lawsuits have been dismissed, with Baldoni apparently winning the settlement.

Blake Lively Received Zero Compensation in Justin Baldoni Settlement: Report



Lively still has a pending motion for attorneys' fees and damages stemming from Baldoni's failed defamation lawsuit


No monetary compensation was reportedly exchanged in the lawsuit settlement between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. TMZ, Variety, and other outlets confirmed the news. Lively still has a pending motion for attorneys' fees and damages stemming from Baldoni's dismissed defamation suit against her.

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The news arrives a day after Lively and Baldoni settled their legal battle tied to their film, It Ends With Us, avoiding a trial that was scheduled to begin on May 18 and expected to last six to eight weeks. At the time, Rolling Stone learned that Baldoni was especially pleased with the outcome.

The contentious legal fight dates back to Lively's 2024 claims that Baldoni and Wayfarer fostered a toxic, sexually charged work environment that discriminated against women on the set of It Ends With Us. Lively also accused Baldoni and the film's producers of engaging in a campaign to smear her reputation.

Baldoni countersued Lively for $400 million, accusing her of defamation, though the suit was later dismissed. He also sued The New York Times for defamation over their story that broke the news of Lively's original sexual harassment complaint against Baldoni -- that suit was also tossed out.

Earlier this month, a judge dismissed 10 of Lively's 13 claims -- including allegations of sexual harassment -- meaning the trial was set to center on retaliation and breach of contract. Prior to the settlement on Monday, lawyers for both sides argued over the admissibility of expert witness testimony, with a focus on those tied to Lively's claims that she suffered between $39 million and $143 million in losses from the dispute surrounding the film. Baldoni's lawyers countered, arguing Lively's work history didn't support such estimates, and that the four films she'd appeared in over the past eight years had brought her earnings of roughly $21 million.

And now... Blake Lively's career as a low to mid level actress is almost certainly over. She'll be doing guest spots on TV shows, or maybe "star" in Hallmark movies.

She has badly damaged the household's breadwinner Ryan Reynolds, who no longer has the reputation of being a semi-relatable cool brah actor, but now just seems like another mercenary douchebag who has escaped consequences all of his life because of the accident of charm.

All because she craved ownership of something that just didn't belong to her.

I wonder what firms Candace Owens is employing to cause so much emotional distress to Erika Krik that she hands over the organization her husband founded and nutured to that black Nazi grifter and psychopath.

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Withered Aryan Hooker Me-Again Kelly: Tuq'r and I May Be Losing Our Old Audience, But We're Gaining an "International" Audience of "Young" Muslims and That's Even Better!

—Disinformation Expert Ace

She's so stupid she doesn't realize she wasn't supposed to admit that her audience is hemorrhaging Americans and gaining Young Muslim Bots from Clickfarms in Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt.

Me-Again doesn't realize that most advertisers covet wealthy (generally) western audiences, and could give f***-all about Bot Farmers in Lahore.

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The Long-Awaited Defenestration of the Philosopher Kings

—Disinformation Expert Ace

JJ mentioned this but I really wanted to post about it.

I've seen some establishment-oriented "conservatives" using Tuq'r Qarlson and Nick Fuentes and Withered Aryan Hooker Me-Again Kelly as proof that we should never have aligned with "the populists."

Nonsense. There are bad apples in every bunch. And in case the establishment pussies didn't notice, it was the populists -- not the establishment c**ts whom no one trusts or respects -- who drove the bad-actor Nazis and Islamists out of the party.

Jonah Goldberg and David French and the Bulwark Krue did not exorcise Candace Owens and Ian Carroll from the movement. We did.

I mention this because the establishment and populists disagree sharply on one fundamental point of representational governance.

The establishment types, like the "journalists" whose good opinion they so desperately crave, falsely believe that they are some really smart customers. No one believes they are smart, except for they themselves. But they are absolutely convinced on this point. They have argued with themselves about how genius they are and they won that argument with themselves, because they're so wise and persuasive.

This leads to their theory of respresentational governance: We, the stupid people who are incapable of higher-level, abstract, future-oriented thought, have elected these Sages and Philosophers to do our thinking for us.

When we elect these c**ts, that is the end of our involvement in the political process. Our further thoughts are not welcome because we are so gosh-darn bad at thinking we would just exhaust the lucid minds of Philosopher Kings with our retarded ramblings. The establishment does not seek our counsel, it only seeks our grant of power to it, One Time, after which they will literally never again check in with us.

And I say "One Time" because of the fact -- which may be changing (Spoiler Alert) -- that once an establishment c**t has Conned the Rubes into granting them perpetual unchecked power, they essentially have it for life, or until they're found balls-deep inside a 15-year-old boy, because it's very hard to boot an incumbent out of office, particularly in a district or state that is strong for one party.

Contrasting with this theory of governance in which the brain-damaged troglodytes of the dirty masses grant power to establishment Philosopher Kings a single time and then let them do what their massively-powerful brains and consciences compel them to do, the brain-damaged troglodytes have a different theory altogether.

We don't think we elect these pissant mediocrities to do our thinking for us. We think we've done the thinking ourselves. We think we've done the thinking, and we elect these no-talent, no-accomplishment Student Council Vice Treasurers and Disappointed Theater Kids to heed our thinking and merely do our voting in legislative bodies for us.

Now I realize we probably "think" this because our Retard-Brains are glitching and misfiring as usual, but still, we would like to be heard on this point.

But, because it's almost impossible to get voters animated enough to vote these self-declared Philosopher Kings out of office in one-party states or districts, the establishment types who believe we've elected them to do our thinking for us been permitted to carry on acting as if we elected them to do our thinking for us, and we have not had any practical, repeatable method of correction and punishment for this grievously false conception of their role in government.


Until now, my fellow morons and brain-damaged troglodytes who have no capacity for higher-level thought.


The Philosopher Kings serving as state representatives and senators in Indiana, which, let's face it, is the government equivalent of a job as Arby's Night Manager, decided that comity with the Democrats and the good opinion of the leftwing media was far, far more important that the voters' decision that redrawing congressional districts was imperative as we close in on the most important midterms in a century.

The voters finally got their say. We won't get those lines redrawn, but we will have no representation going forward.

President Trump proved to be a kingmaker in Tuesday night's Indiana and Ohio Republican primaries, where his seal of approval propelled several GOP candidates to landslide victories.

In Indiana, Trump's revenge campaign against incumbent state senators who torpedoed his push last year to redraw the Hoosier State's congressional boundaries was largely successful -- with the president's preferred candidates winning five of six contests.

"Everyone in Indiana politics should have learned an important lesson today: President Trump is the single most popular Republican among Hoosier voters," Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) said in a statement.

I'm not so big on praising Trump here, because I didn't really elect him to do my thinking for me, either. But he's right on this issue and extremely right on the question of disciplining and ejecting arrogant, defiant "representatives."

"Indiana is a conservative state, and we deserve conservatives in our State Senate who have a pulse on Republican voters," he added.

That, on the other hand, I agree with 100%.

...

The victories by Trump-backed candidates were decisive.


Trevor De Vries topped Indiana state Sen. Dan Dernulc by a 75%-24% margin; Tracey Powell beat state Sen. Jim Buck in a 65%-35% race; and Brian Schmutzler and Michelle Davis defeated state Sens. Linda Rogers and Greg Walker, respectively, by 18-point margins.

The first incumbent taken out by Trump was longtime Indiana state Sen. Travis Holdman, who has been in office since 2008 and is a member of Indiana Senate leadership.

Holdman was bested by Blake Fiechter by a 61%-39% margin.

At press time, Indiana state Sen. Greg Goode was the only incumbent opposed to redistricting who was able to fend off a Trump-backed primary challenge.

Goode defeated Brenda Wilson in the state's District 38 primary, where a third Republican candidate in the race, Alexandra Wilson, received about 10% of the vote.

The White House had pressured Alexandra Wilson to get out of the race ahead of Tuesday's primary, reportedly over concerns her candidacy would confuse voters attempting to cast ballots for Brenda Wilson.

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The base isn't stupid. Rule #1 of being a Republican officeholder: do not weaken your own voters' electoral power.

Some Indiana State Senators thought they were clever and didn't have to obey this rule. They will be private citizens shortly.

No Murkowskis:

Indiana has a sore loser law.

They can't run after losing a primary.
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Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

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The Local Apparatchik

Like the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, we're having an outsized impact. In the case of climate, we are not the dinosaurs. We are the meteor. We are not only in danger. We are the danger. But we are also the solution.
-- Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations; June 5, 2024

Like most "world leaders" - and all of the globalist and large NGO leaders - Guterres aspires to be a Bond villain. The arrogance and histrionics aside, Guterres and those like him are in essence very easy to understand: they are tyrants. The hubris and hysteria are an act in the service of increasing their power and control. They do not do it themselves. Their fortunes are delivered by the small-time locals who move the ball when commanded. Large or small, they believe everyone and everything must be brought to heel to build their utopia. Free expression, free action, individual prerogatives and everything else must not be permitted if they interfere with immanentizing the eschaton.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

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Le train de nuit
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The Morning Report — 5/ 6/26

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning, kids.
Wow, two days in a row that I'm actually starting off with some good news.

President Trump proved to be a kingmaker in the Indiana and Ohio Republican primaries Tuesday night, where his seal of approval propelled several GOP candidates to landslide victories. 

In Indiana, Trump’s revenge campaign against incumbent state senators who torpedoed his push last year to redraw the Hoosier state’s congressional boundaries was largely successful – with the president’s preferred candidates winning five of six contests. 

A potential sixth victory for a Trump-endorsed candidate was still too close to call late Tuesday.

While this is certainly good news for both the President and the people of Indiana and Ohio, both of those states' Republican parties, have done precious little if anything to move the MAGA agenda forward.

As CBD and I noted in the most recent episode of the podcast,
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the SAVE Act is stalled in Congress and in all likelihood will probably lay moribund if not flatline altogether before long.
This because of a feckless/useless or worse collaborationist GOP, not singling out IN and OH in particular but the Grifting Oleaginous Parasites as a whole.

Establishment Republicans have for more than a month stalled their half-hearted effort to keep their focus on the bill in hopes of convincing enough Democrats to vote for it. Of course, it’s hard to make liberals defend their unpopular stance if you don’t make them defend their unpopular stance. 

The Federalist reached out to Thune’s office on Monday. No answer on the status of the SAVE America act, which would amend the flawed National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo identification to cast a ballot in a federal election. Majority Republicans could push for an end to the bill-killing filibuster to pass the legislation. Several  senators and President Donald Trump have urged Senate leadership to do just that. But they won’t, apparently trusting that Democrats wouldn’t do the same when they control the upper House again. 


Adding insult to injury, SCOTUS handed the GOP a once in a multiple-lifetime opportunity to kneecap the Democrats and really help put America back on the track to sanity after decades of Leftist destruction.

. . . there is the landmark redistricting case that the U.S. Supreme Court just decided this week. In Louisiana v. Callais, the court held that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits states and localities from imposing any voting “qualification or prerequisite” that “results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen … to vote on account of race or color,” cannot be invoked to create race-conscious congressional maps — a dubious practice lawmakers had been blithely engaging in for decades. The court correctly held that such race-conscious mapmaking, including the devising of so-called majority-minority districts across many Southern states, runs afoul of the 14th Amendment’s sweeping equal protection guarantee.

Now I'll single out Ohio insofar as Governor DeSwine and the state GOP have not done a damn thing to take advantage of the ruling as for example Florida and Texas. And that goes for all the other Republican states that have done nothing to reverse the Democrats' abuse of the VRA that artificially gives them the advantage in the House.

Meh, we've been pissing and moaning about the GOP for years, and for the past three national election cycles, for the first time in my life (Ronald Reagan notwithstanding) with Donald Trump at long last we had a candidate that we actually wanted to vote FOR, as opposed to merely showing up to vote Against a Democrat knowing full well that whether Bush, McCain or Romney that they would do nothing to halt let alone reverse the trajectory off the cliff that America has been on for decades.

As both CBD and I pondered, is someone like the youthful and driven Nick Shirley merely a one-off or is he reflective of a broader wave of disaffection of the younger generations at the Democrat/leftist/globalist enterprise that is making their future and the future of the nation one of misery and limited possibilities. Of course the academia/media/cultural propaganda complex will cast the blame on Trump, conservatives and America as founded and far too many Americans have been brainwashed into believing it. Somehow despite all that, Trump and the MAGA message broke through and in spite of the pushback, and some setbacks, it is succeeding and has gained a foothold on the road back from the long march through the institutions that have turned the American experiment on its head.

Of course Trump cannot restore America on his own and not in just two terms. the road back like the road to hell that got us here will be a generational journey. Only time will tell if we and our progeny can stay the course for the long haul.

And to continue and conclude with the positive vibes:

The United States overtook Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest exporter of crude oil over the past nine weeks, as Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz choked off Middle Eastern oil shipments. Bloomberg News reported Sunday that the United States shipped more than 250 million barrels of crude oil from its wells and storage tanks to overseas buyers over the past nine weeks, becoming a “lifeline for global consumers.”
In the immortal words of J.D. Clampett WELL DOGGIES!!!!

Have a good day!

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Daily Tech News 6 May 2026

—Pixy Misa

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - May 5, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

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From Aesthetics

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday night ONT has arrived. So glad you could make it. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Baby Jerks Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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Cow on vacation.

A dream for Duncanthrax. More fear.

Neat mountain ledge.

Baby goats dancing to the Ghana Funeral Dance music.

Baby hedgehogs.

Rescue tiger loves his red ball.

Roar.

I would not make it. Not because of the snakes, just because I don't want to look like a Stilt-Nerd.

Dog wants to play fetch on a train.

This is like herding cats.

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