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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would designate Antifa a foreign terrorist organization after a roundtable on the far-left extremist group with independent journalists, Jack Posobiec, Nick Sortor, and others who have delivered tremendous on-the-ground reporting on Antifa.
While fielding questions from members of the press pool observing the roundtable, one reporter asked Trump if he would designate Antifa, which he has labeled a domestic terrorist group, as a foreign terrorist group.
"Well, has that been done? Pretty close, right? Would you like to see it done," Trump asked, to which Posibeic immediately responded, "Yes, Mr. President."
"They have foreign links all across Western Europe, the Middle East," Posoibec added.
Trump added he would like to take such action, telling Secretary of State Marco Rubio, "We'll take care of it."
When Trump conferred with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Miller signed on.
"Yes, it's true. There are extensive foreign ties, and I think that would be a very valid step to take," Miller said.
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Posobiec zoomed in on Antifa's existence dating back a century, the messages on the bullet casings of Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, and the appalling leftist celebration in the aftermath of Kirk's murder.
"Thank you for mentioning the fact that one of the bullet casings read, 'Hey fascist! Catch!' on it. One of the other bullet casings right next to that had 'Bella Ciao' written on it. Now, 'Bella Ciao' is a song that is known in Antifa circles as the international anthem of Antifa," he said.
"And Mr. President, I think the situation is getting worse. When you look at people like Luigi Mangione in his twenties, Thomas Matthew Crooks, of course, who took a shot at you sir, the ICE shooter in Dallas, and now this Tyler Robinson, we're starting to see a pattern of more and more murderous violence," he added.
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While Posobiec underscored the resiliency of those present for the roundtable, he voiced his concern that someone at the table could be the next target of the radical left.
"Mr. President, we need to do something about this because I fear that the next one who could be killed could be sitting at this table right now, and we're not going to stop, but they need to stop, and they will not stop until they are stopped," he said.
.@JackPosobiec delivers remarks at a roundtable on Antifa with Trump:
"We need to do something about this because I fear that the next one who could be killed could be sitting at this table right now ... They will not stop until they are stopped." pic.twitter.com/JbYkQLyfZf
Meanwhile, the extremist left, by which I mean the Democrat-Antifa-Media Cult, continues to insist they do not support Antifa while defending them and lying for them at every turn:
CNN dipshit Erin Burnett says Antifa isn't as bad as the "far right wing" Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, who've had national leaders.
Katie Porter's "unhappy experience" in a viral interview has become the news cycle from hell.
The bipartisan pile-on following the widely-circulated clip of her contentious sit-down with a local CBS news affiliate was only hours old when a new video surfaced from POLITICO of the former House member berating a staffer in 2021 -- the two clips fueling long-simmering concerns about her temperament and judgment.
Together, they suddenly boiled over into the broader political zeitgeist, raising questions about just how durable Porter's lead in California's gubernatorial race really is.
"Is this a disaster? Yes," said Gale Kaufman, a veteran Democratic strategist based in Sacramento. "And the reason it's a disaster is because it amplifies what her reputation already is."
Porter's Democratic rivals, smelling blood in the water, quickly seized on the former congresswoman's wince-worthy television appearance. Antonio Villaraigosa took the unusual step of purchasing three-minute ads in the Sacramento market to run the entirety of Porter's tense exchange with CBS reporter Julie Watts. Stephen J. Cloobeck released a digital ad knocking Porter for past inflammatory comments. Xavier Becerra and Tony Thurmond highlighted their own, less-incendiary, responses to Watts' questions. And Betty Yee called on Porter to drop out.
"As the last viable female candidate in this race, it matters to me that California's first female governor be a trusted, respected leader we can all be proud of -- not a viral embarrassment," Yee said in a statement. "Women in politics are still held to higher standards, and Katie Porter has clearly failed that test."
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But there was also a chorus of detractors from her own party, including palpable schadenfreude from operatives who had worked on rival campaigns or heard Porter was difficult to work with -- or for.
"What people saw in that interview is a certain temperament," said Marisol Samayoa, a consultant who worked for Adam Schiff's Senate bid. "The way she handled herself on camera is an example of the type of leadership Californians don't want to see."
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This week's bad headlines resonate so widely in part because they reinforced the criticisms that have shadowed Porter since she entered public life: that she can be undisciplined, thin-skinned in the face of criticism, and so abrasive or demanding that it damages vital relationships.
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Porter has long been dogged by allegations of mistreating staffers and endured an acrimonious breakup.
"Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train-wreck interview with her and said, 'Now imagine what she's like when there aren't cameras around,'" journalist Yashar Ali commented.
"You can see the unpleasant experiences so many Dem operatives and journalists have had with former Rep. / CA-GOV candidate Katie Porter (D) pouring out, now that video of her abusive personality has leaked out. Worst kept secret in politics," Jewish Insider's Josh Kraushaar wrote.
The Democrat-Antifa-Media Cult is now trying to take her out, for the same reason they took out Biden -- not because they have any ethical or moral objection to her, but because they see her as an election-loser and damaging to the Great Communist Cause.
Skip to 1:15. Before then, it's just Katie Porter reading a script about green energy and electric vehicles with corrupt self-dealing Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (or whatever her name is).
Exclusive from @melmason on Katie Porter, who berates a staffer and tells her to “get out of my fucking shot!” while recording a video with the Biden administration.
Is she literally insane? Does she think she's pulling this off? Does she think she looks... hot?
You may think "she's just showing her sense of humor," but no, she has proven again and again that she is a humorless angry wokescold, and she especially has no humor about herself.
Democrat Rep. Katie Porter dressed up as Batgirl on the same day as the historic vote on President Trump's impeachment -- and critics accused her of "making a mockery" of Congress.
The California congresswoman donned the black superhero costume and mask for Halloween on Thursday -- sitting in the House of Representatives next to freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib and other Democrats who were wearing regular DC garb.
The stunt was met with condemnation -- with critics accusing Porter, 45, of not taking her job seriously.
"Democrat Rep. Katie Porter is making a mockery of the House of Reps," tweeted Republican National Committee spokesman Steve Guest.
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"This is how seriously these clowns are taking impeachment," the National Republican Congressional Committee tweeted on Thursday.
But Porter defended the stunt on Twitter, writing: "Taking my work in Congress seriously doesn't mean I take *myself* too seriously.
While the Archbishop of Canterbury virtue signals his dislike of Jews and Israel by demanding an end to the Gaza war, American churches demand that we block military sales to Israel, and the Pope spouts similar sentiments, Christians are being murdered throughout the world by Muslims who are simply obeying the dictates of their pseudo-religion. Yet there is no similar opprobrium for Islam. In fact, these representatives of Christians carefully sidestep the wholesale slaughter of Christians and the destruction of Christianity because it is politically expedient to attack Israel and Jews instead of defending their own faith.
But make no mistake...Islam is coming for Christianity, just as they are coming for Jews. And just like their systematic attacks on Jews across the world, they are ramping up their religious war against all who do not ascribe to their curious revolutionary political philosophy. You know, the one that treats women as chattel, sees non-believers as subhuman, sees nothing wrong with bestiality, and whose violent rhetoric is explicitly backed up by their scripture.
So where are the campus protests against this genocide. And yes, it is a real genocide. Where are the street protests in our cities? Where are the marches in European capitals? Where is the United Nations General Assembly condemnation of the murder of tens of thousands of Christians by Islam simply for being Christian?
And most of all...where is Western Christianity? Do they not read the Bible?
Vengeance is poised with Me, and it will pay at the time their foot stumbles. For the appointed day of their reckoning is near, and what is destined for them hastens.
-- Deuteronomy
For a spoiler has come upon her, yea upon Babylon, and her mighty men have been seized, their bows have been broken, for the Lord is a God of recompenses, He shall surely requite.
-- Jeremiah
So many of these attacks are happening far from the oh-so-sophisticated Western capitals, and are perpetrated against mere black people, and that makes it so very, very, easy for the West to ignore it.
Perhaps Christians in Africa should follow the lead of Israel, and realize that the West does not care! Take up weapons and defend yourselves. Carve out explicitly Christian lands and fight back against a political philosophy that is intent upon destroying you!
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“A great day for Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Wednesday night, announcing the approval of a landmark deal to bring home all the remaining Israeli hostages — a breakthrough reached with direct backing from President Donald Trump.
The announcement capped days of intense diplomacy, confirming a Trump-backed deal that will bring home every remaining Israeli hostage.
“I will convene the government to approve the agreement and bring all our dear hostages home,” Netanyahu said in a statement on X. He credited the “courage and sacrifice” of Israel’s soldiers and security forces, and thanked Trump and his team “for their mobilization for this sacred mission.”
As a Jew, a staunch supporter of the State of Israel, a proud Trump-supporting American-American and a human being, I am overjoyed that the hostages at long last are seemingly taking their first steps toward freedom from the clutches of the manifestation of evil on earth. And yet knowing exactly who they were in the clutches of tempers my joy with a dread for the future.
Negotiating with Islamic terrorists doesn’t work. It leads to more terrorism.
That’s been true of every single deal made with the Islamic terrorists inside Israel. And this may be the worst of the deals because it rewards Hamas, frees large numbers of terrorists and validates October 7.
Worse still, it risks dragging us further into ‘nation-building’ an Islamic terrorist state.
Israel and the US as well as the other participants in this conference, the regional Arab/Muslim states might concede to a defanging if not dismantling of Hamas as the government of Gaza or as an entity in and of itself. But as we all know and as I and others have articulated or tried to articulate here and elsewhere the 1.5 billion adherents to Islam around the world will either actively participate in or otherwise cheer on and support the slaughter of every Jew on the planet and the eradication of the State of Israel if it brings them closer to their goal of the conquest of the entire world.
Unless and until President Trump and whatever remains of the Western world acknowledges this at the very least to themselves and for the greater good publicly – as diplomatically and politically palatable as and if possible — as they can, 10/7 will happen again and again not just in Israel but all over GOd's green earth.
What I want to see, and sadly what just is never going to happen is President Trump or please-God President Vance publicly read the passages in the Koran, the PLO and its allies' charters that equate Jews with apes and pigs, infidels calling for all Muslims everywhere to kill Jews and infidels wherever they find them and Call out every Muslim everywhere to publicly renounce those words.
Of course they cannot and likely will not do that because the Koran is the so-called word of their supreme false-god, so to do so would be an act of apostasy that would cost them their lives. But by not doing so, it would in essence for those paying attention scream to the world of their approval of those ideas. Maybe it's the shock treatment that the world needs. As if the sight of babies being roasted alive in front of their parents, or the mass rape and torture of innocent girls and women that they broadcast in the act via the GO-Pro cameras they were wearing on that day two years ago would or should have been.
Until my last breath, there will be no peace in the Middle East and indeed the world itself until the practice of Islam as preached and as written in its texts is as extinct as the dinosaurs. Ditto Socialism/Communism. Both are tyrannical evils.
And as my dear mother of blessed memory warned me, herself a survivor of that latter evil hell on earth, "Evil never rests."
In any case, I hope and pray that the long suffering hostages are set free and reunited with their loved ones and that however this "deal" came about, some good comes from it because Israel and the West will have had to have given up some kind of concession to these beasts that they will doubtless crow about as a victory and as Daniel Greenfield warns in his essay, will give them an incentive (as if they need one besides the accursed poison words of that Goddamned fucking Koran) to butcher Jews, Christians, Hindus or even their own if they dare show a bit too much ankle in public.
A 29-year-old Biden-supporting Uber driver obsessed with images of fire has been charged with setting a blaze that later grew into the Palisades Fire, authorities said Wednesday — nine months after the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history erupted.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is accused of “maliciously” sparking a brush fire on Jan. 1. That fire was knocked down by the Los Angeles fire department, but continued to smolder unnoticed, underground for days before high winds rekindled it into the raging Palisades inferno, federal prosecutors said.
The Palisades Fire left 12 people dead, destroyed nearly 7,000 homes and businesses and caused about $150 billion in damages.
No doubt he believed in Climate Change/Gobal Warming so he had to burn Southern California to the ground to make us apostates see the truth!
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) compared actions by the Trump administration to tackle crime and enforce federal immigration law in Chicago to the “early days of the Nazi regime” and claimed the National Guard may be deployed at polling places during the 2026 midterm elections.
Schiff: We Can’t Rule Out Trump Launching Military Strikes on Domestic Groups
Considering that his party is, was and always will be at the epicenter of domestic political violence, treachery, mopery and the fomenters of criminal insurrectionist violence for the sole purpose of overthrowing America and seizing absolute power permanently. A drone strike on Democrat National Headquarters would go a long way in advancing the cause of freedom (rhetorically-speaking of course /s!!)
. . . the video shows Porter speaking with former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in July 2021, before she cursed at a staffer for interjecting to correct her on a policy detail.
“Get out of my fucking shot!” Porter yelled at the staffer in the video.
When the staffer issued her correction regarding a policy detail, Porter responded, “Okay. You also were in my shot before that. Stay out of my shot.”
At that moment, you can see clearly see Ron Jeremy go limp and then they immediately switched to a commercial for Cialis!
Jeremy later stated, while dousing his schvantz in Kwell and Clorox, despite the fat check from the DNC he just couldn't get it up for Porter.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Van Jones blames “the Jews” for media silence on Nigerian massacres—but the real reason isn’t anti-Semitic conspiracy; it’s the left’s selective outrage and ideological blind spots. About The “Jews”
Miranda Devine: Democrats have placed themselves squarely on the wrong side of public opinion and no amount of lies and gaslighting will work this time. Trump Mark 2 has designated Antifa a terrorist organization and has sicced his entire administration on destroying it. That means not just arresting the Black Bloc militants and their zombie comrades but attacking the source of their funding. The Dems are letting Antifa take over their cities — Trump is right to send federal troops to maintain order
Democrats are not simply anti-American; they pursue policies and programs that are fundamentally anti-human. The Democrats Are Not as They Appear (Think Gorgo the Friendly Angel of Star Trek - jjs)
CHARLIE KIRK'S ASSASSINATION
A family’s steady guidance turned a son’s dark path toward accountability, showing the quiet power of parental influence. (In the immortal lyrics of Rogers & Hammerstein "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" - jjs) The Parents of Charlie Kirk’s Prodigal Assassin
“The Church cannot stay silent before injustice." (Hello Islamic butchery against Christians in Africa and Pakistan and everywhere. And of course Israel on 10/7, let alone Europe from 1933-1945.) Pope Leo Urges Bishops to Fight for Illegal Aliens
The BBC reports authorities said evidence collected from the suspect’s digital devices showed an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city. Man Arrested in Connection with Start of Deadly Pacific Palisades Fire (Did anyone, perhaps even Newsom or Bass, hire him to set the fire? - jjs)
Democrats rejected a bipartisan funding measure that would restore government operations for the sixth time. The same trio of Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and independent Maine Sen. Angus King, who caucuses with Democrats, broke ranks to join Republicans in voting “yes” on the House-passed spending bill. Schumer Keeps Government Closed Despite Mounting Costs of Shutdown
The Chevron disaster is not isolated. It’s not even new. PBF Energy’s Martinez refinery was closed after a Feb. 1 fire damaged the facility. It was partly operational in late April, but it won’t be fully back in business until some in the fourth quarter of this year. While its down time caused gasoline prices to rise – as much as 42 cents a gallon in Northern California – it represented only 9.6% of the state’s refining capacity, about 60% of what the El Segundo site produces. The Chevron loss is going to be a bigger hit. How Much Will Gas Prices Rise After So Cal Refinery Fire?
The expansion of federally financed benefits for low-income workers is driving incentives to underreport income. America’s Growing Shadow Economy
Israel is losing the war of public opinion to ruthless and sick propagandists for Hamas and radical Muslims are gaining power in the West as a result. The Bibas inversion
“There has been a gross campaign at the international level to demonize Israel. These are all percolating under the surface on the campuses. In some ways, the situation’s worse underneath, more organized, more coordinated, and more dangerous.” Two Years After October 7 Massacre, Campuses Are Worse Under The Surface
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
The glacial drip of revelations about the Manchester Synagogue attack continues to be released by police, including information they had in the very first minutes of their investigation last week. Specialist counter terrorism police revealed on Wednesday that 35-year-old Syrian migrant Jihad al-Shamie had spoken to a police telephone operator in a call while the attack was actually underway, boasted he’d “killed two Jews in the name of the Islamic State”. Synagogue Killer Confessed Islamic State Affiliation on Phone to Police, Had Three Wives (Pfft! sez "Mickey Rooney!" - jjs)
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
After founding Thoughtworks, Inc. in 1993 and building the company into a software consulting powerhouse, Singham helped orchestrate its sale in October 2017 for approximately $785 million to a group of funds managed by London-based private equity firm Apax Partners. Corporate records from the United Kingdom confirm Singham’s resignation from Thoughtworks that same month, and his own LinkedIn profile says he has been retired since 2017. Thoughtworks’ English-language website relegates him to its “alumni” section, reinforcing the image of a clean break. Chinese Government Records List Left-wing Billionaire Neville Roy Singham as Corporate Officer for Thoughtworks Beijing
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The White House also announced a $35.6 million investment in Canada’s Trilogy Metals, one of the regions possible developers. Also, 10 other key mine projects have been expedited in a mad dash to make us competitive with and independent from China. Trump Approves Permits for Alaska Mining Road Blocked by criminal Biden Junta
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
News broke on Oct. 3 that Jones had sent text messages in 2o22 to Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner saying he would give former Republican Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert “two bullets to the head” and urinate on his grave. The text messages were first reported by National Review. More Than 350,000 Virginians Voted Before They Learned Jay Jones Is A Psychopath Well, he is clearly the Democrat, so what's the diff? - jjs
Republican New York Rep. Mike Lawler confronted Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for voting to shut down the government outside of the lead Democrat’s press conference. Jeffries has complained for weeks that Republicans are not willing to debate the government shutdown on the House floor, but when Lawler came prepared to discuss the matter, the lead Democrat told Lawler to “keep his mouth shut.” Republican Confronts Hakeem Jeffries To His Face Over Shutdown, Heated Argument Ensues
Porter flew off the handle after being asked a fairly tame question by CBS News Sacramento reporter, Julie Watts. “What do you say to the 40% of California voters who you’ll need, in order to win, who voted for [President Donald] Trump?” Katie Porker Might Be Worse At Interviews Than Kamala
The left’s house of cards incinerates under scrutiny, and Trump lit the match. Weaponizing Truth
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Since President Donald Trump’s return to office in January, he has led a major crackdown on drug cartels, designating certain international groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. In a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Monday, 71% of voters surveyed said they support sinking South American ships carrying drugs into the U.S. Americans Overwhelmingly Support Trump Admin Blowing Drug Boats Out Of Water: POLL
Color me shocked. After more than a decade of breathless cheerleading for the so-called Affordable Care Act, the editorial elites at The Washington Post have finally admitted what conservatives have been saying all along: Obamacare was never affordable. As the Post’s own editorial board now concedes, the law “was never actually affordable.” This sudden burst of honesty comes amid the latest government shutdown showdown, which Democrats sparked in part by demanding yet another blank check to keep Biden’s lavish, COVID-era insurance subsidies alive. Guess Who Just Admitted That Obamacare’s A Money Pit
Spreading out measles, mumps, and rubella vaccinations could reduce side effects and give children’s bodies more time to adjust to them, but the health establishment is complaining that it could disrupt adherence to immunization schedules and increase the risk of contracting one of the illnesses between shots. Acting CDC Boss Tells Big Pharma to Separate MMR Vax Into Three Shots.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
According to an analysis of pairs of 300 hundred orbital images taken seconds apart, scientist have found that Martian winds can reach speeds of 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hours), much faster than previously expected. Martian winds are faster than expected
Typically, material from the coma is swept into a long tail, which can grow up to millions of kilometres long as the comet moves closer to the Sun. The tail is much dimmer than the coma. We can’t see the tail in the CaSSIS images, but it may become more visible in future observations as the comet continues to heat up and release more ice. First image from Mars of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
KAROL MARKOWICZ: During Tuesday’s oral arguments in the case, Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked whether states can ban dieticians from telling “anorexic patients to engage in more restricted eating.” But the dietician in Sotomayor’s example actually aligns far more closely to the therapists who abide by Colorado’s law. Supreme Court’s ‘trans therapy’ case is a free-speech slam dunk — that will save lives
The editors apologise for the unwontedly upbeat tone of many of today's news items. We do expect to be back to our usual predictions of imminent doom tomorrow.
In a 355 - 247 vote, the parliament said that you can't call a plant-based product "steak" unless it was produced by feeding the plants to a cow. The same goes for terms like "burger" and "sausage".
All the usual suspects are outraged, as well as supermarket chains who will have to make sure all their products are appropriately labelled.
The alliance of hacking groups claims to have stolen close to a billion records of data belonging to Salesforce customers, and demanded that the company pay them ransom.
Which is nice and all, but I think for many people the bridges are burned, the horses are bolted, the cat is out of the bag, the genie out of the bottle, and the toothpaste can't be squeezed back into the tube.
This version actually brings some significant changes: The dreaded GIL - the global interpreter lock - has been removed, and a new JIT (just-in-time) compiler has been added.
Neither is the default to ensure compatibility with previous versions, but they are there and ready for you to play with.
Not very. PyPy is a far superior solution to speeding up generic Python code, running 4x to 16x as fast as the Python JIT compiled in tests presented here.
But the new implementation of the free-threaded model - the version that removes the GIL - is significantly faster in 3.14 than the first version released in 3.13, so there is still that.
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - October 8, 2025 [Autumn Rex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb debris. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
[Top photo: Giles County Courthouse, Pearisburg, Virginia]
A man was caught on surveillance video stealing a large dinosaur from a gas station in Brentwood.
The incident happened Saturday, Sept. 27 at a Sinclair gas station on 13060 San Vicente Blvd.
Video shows the man walking towards the green Apatosaurus and appears to unscrew it from the ground. He walks away then returns with a white tarp or blanket over his shoulder.
As he covers the dinosaur, a white pickup truck then pulls up besides him. The man then places the dinosaur into the pickup and gets into the passenger side as the vehicle drives off.
A Sinclair gas station owner in Los Angeles is breathing a sigh of relief after a beloved fiberglass dinosaur statue was returned after being stolen late last month.
It's a crime that was so shocking, the owner said people were crying and even leaving flowers at the spot Claire the dinosaur stood.
The green Apatosaurus, named Claire, was returned after being stolen over a week ago. The dinosaur was covered in a blanket along with a note that read, "Sorry for stealing Claire! Please do not press charges!"
Related (but again, not me):
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Five random bits of unverified (by me) Texas trivia found on the interweb:
1) El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
2) The King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island.
3) Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper.
4) The name "Texas" comes from the Hasini Indian word "tejas" meaning "friends." Tejas is NOT Spanish for Texas.
5) The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was "Houston," but the NASA Space Center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time - just outside Houston limits. Clear Lake City was annexed by Houston in 1977.
According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic dawn were small dwarf galaxies that flared to life, clearing the fog of murky hydrogen that filled intergalactic space. A paper about the research was published in February 2024.
"This discovery unveils the crucial role played by ultra-faint galaxies in the early Universe's evolution," said astrophysicist Iryna Chemerynska of the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.
Do we trust the French to opine on free flying photo formulae?
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Somehow, TRex made it this far thought life without seeing the early days of Snoopy's story. Shame, shame.
In 1950, Schulz took a somewhat spiffed-up "Li'l Folks" to United Feature Syndicate for nationwide distribution. The group agreed to publish the strip, with one stipulation: The name had to change. "Li'l Folks" was deemed too similar to multiple existing newspaper strips, so the syndicate rebranded it "Peanuts," a reference to the peanut gallery on the "Howdy Doody Show," where boisterous little children sat. Though Schulz never liked the name and would harbor no small resentment of it for decades, the cartoonist nurtured "Peanuts" into one of the most successful comic strips in history.
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How does Porsche test engines in development? This is not a new video, but first time for TRex. Instead of a standard engine dyno, this dynamic cradle replicates the g-force demands of the Nurburgring. One for the gearheads and engineers:
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Public service announcement: Dolly Parton remains among the living.
Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Reports of lost large scale dinos looking for homes are also welcome. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So you're telling me the party of apocalyptic-minded godless lunatics set a fire to purge the world?
A 29-year-old Biden-supporting Uber driver obsessed with dystopian imagery, "despair and bitterness" is charged with "maliciously" sparking the Palisades Fire, authorities said Wednesday -- nine months after the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history erupted.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is accused of setting a brush fire Jan. 1 that was put out, but then smoldered unnoticed underground for days before igniting the raging Palisades inferno, which left 12 people dead and caused about $150 billion in damages.
The Palisades blaze, which was sparked by the Lachman Fire, went on to level more than 6,000 homes and buildings in the wealthy coastal enclave.
Rinderknecht, who lived in the area at some point, allegedly ignited the flames near a popular hiking trail in the hillside of a state park overlooking the neighborhood at about 12:12 a.m. on New Year's Day -- just moments after dropping off his Uber passengers.
The passengers later recalled Rinderknecht appearing "agitated and angry," the feds said.
After arriving at the hiking trail, Rinderknecht allegedly filmed the scene on his phone and listened to the rap song "Un Zder, Un The," by French artist Josman, whose music video features him setting a series of blazes, the criminal complaint states.
Google records showed that Rinderknecht, born in France, had listened to the song nine times and watched the music video four times in the days leading up to the fire, according to court papers.
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Rinderknecht is believed to have watched his fire burn for about a minute before fleeing down the hiking trail, where he made a three-minute video recording of himself attempting to call 911 several times to report the blaze.
As he was on the phone to dispatchers, he typed "Are you at fault if a fire is lift [sic] because of your cigarettes" into ChatGPT -- which was also captured in the screen recording, the complaint charges.
Rinderknecht allegedly drove away from the scene but turned around to follow the responding fire trucks back to the scene -- where he then watched and recorded several videos as crews battled the inferno, according to the complaint.
"Based on my training and experience, arsonists sometimes call 911 to report the fires they have set, and arsonists sometimes like to watch firefighters respond to the fires that they have set," an investigator notes in the charging docs.
The videos were among a trove of evidence discovered on Rinderknecht's phone in the aftermath of the wildfire, authorities said.
Months before the blaze, in July, Rinderknecht had ChatGPT-generated a grim "dystopian" image of a burning city, according to the criminal complaint.
His mentally-ill AI slop "art" looks like what gender-confused retarded demon would paint on the side of his child abduction van.
Take a guess what he looks like.
Did you guess something like this?
Apart from him having a hair color that appears in nature, I personally nailed it. How about you?
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Months later, in November, Rinderknecht told ChatGPT that he had "literally burnt" a Bible -- boasting that he felt "amazing" and "so liberated" afterwards.
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Rinderknecht was interviewed by investigators shortly after the blaze but allegedly lied to investigators at the time about his location, according to the complaint.
During the Jan. 24 interview, Rinderknecht had told investigators where the fire began, which was information that hadn't yet been made public and that he wouldn't have known if he hadn't witnessed it, the complaint said.
He allegedly lied about his location, claiming he was near the bottom of the hiking trail at the time, the feds said.
During the interview, Rinderknecht's "carotid artery would pulsate and become visible" whenever he was asked about the fire -- indicating he was "extremely anxious," the docs state.
The accused arsonist also confessed to bringing a lighter up the trail -- and investigators later found a green BBQ-style lighter in his car's glove compartment that matched photos taken at his home just days earlier, authorities alleged.
Also in California: Katie Porter, who is one of the most unfortunate-looking women I've ever laid eyes on, also has the reputation of being a beast and a bully to her staff. Her husband alleged that she physically and verbally abused him.
She is running to replace Gavin Newsom as California Crime Boss.
She was asked a very simple question that this reporter asks every Democrat candidate for governor: How will you appeal to the 40% of Californians who voted for Trump?
This physically-heinous woman is also a political extremist, and took offense at the idea that she would ever have to appeal to Trump voters for any reason. She derailed the interview and wound up doing a walk-off where she actually kept her fat ass glued to the chair.
What's her reason for the rage-quit? She complains that the reporter has "seven follow-up" questions for every question. She says she's "never had to do this before," that is, she's literally never had a reporter ask her follow-up questions, pushing past her first answer to try to elicit a true answer.
I believe her. No Democrats ever face follow-up questions. The left-wing media doesn't ask them, and they refuse to be interviewed by anyone who's not in the left-wing media.
Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train-wreck interview with her and said, “Now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.” pic.twitter.com/OCF73BrUg1
As part of a political corruption probe, the FBI obtained evidence that former President Bill Clinton was being paid through a backdoor arrangement with an allied consultant, according to a 2017 document released Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Chuck Grassley.
The Iowa Republican senator raised the issue in a hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi and questioned whether the FBI and Justice Department fully investigated the findings.
The document, which was provided to Grassley by a whistleblower, includes a case update drafted by then-Supervisory Special Agent Tim Thibault about the Washington Field Office's public corruption investigation into Virginia Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe linking former President Clinton to the case.
"McAuliffe case -- Steven Sullivan, Chief Financial Officer of Teneo was interviewed in New York City. Info provided seemed to confirm, Teneo was used as a pass through for Doug Band to pay former President of the United States," Thibault wrote.
Thibault is the disgraced, cashiered ringleader of so many RussiaGate-related operations against Trump.
So I'm sure he fully investigated this information.
"Doug Band was a Deputy Assistant to then-President Clinton and continued working for him post-presidency. Therefore, it's pretty clear the reference to 'President of the United States' is Bill Clinton," Grassley said in his opening statement.
"This information confirms there was an FBI case on McAuliffe, and it indicates the Clintons and their associates were relevant to it," said the senator.
"Did the FBI throw its resources behind this matter just like it did against Trump and his associates? Or did they sweep it all under the rug?" he continued.
Um.
McAuliffe was under investigation by the FBI for his private business ties before he became governor in 2014. The governor's lawyers confirmed that the bureau was probing him over alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. McAuliffe insisted throughout the investigation that he never illegally lobbied for any foreign government. McAuliffe was a major fundraiser for Clinton while he was president.
Teneo, the firm mentioned in the case update, has close ties to both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and its owner, Doug Band, is a close ally of the political couple. He worked for then-President Clinton in the White House Counsel's office. After the government, he became a central figure in Bill Clinton's post-presidency, helping to set up the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.
A leaked memo showed that Band helped organize an aggressive strategy for President Clinton's paid speaking engagements and consulting work while his wife served as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, the Washington Post reported. Band came under scrutiny from Republicans for how Band encouraged Teneo's clients to contribute to the Clinton Foundation.
CIA Deep State operative and Democrat/Antifa candidate for Virginia Abigail Spanberger is holding a fundraiser with Clinton and MacAuliffe this weekend.
After Some Initial Pity-Watches by Antifa Leftists, Jimmy Kimmel's Ratings Plunge 85% In Key Demographic (and Over 70% Overall)
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Jimmy Kimmel faced an all-too-brief three day suspension. When he came back, lefties tuned in as part of their routine #Slactivism form of lazy, passive politicking.
But then those leftists learned what most people knew as early as 1996: Jimmy Kimmel is not funny and never has been and never will be and has the charisma of a spent condom.
And so his ratings in the key 25-54 demographic prized by advertisers fell 85% since then.
Jimmy Kimmel's ratings boom appears to be circling the drain.
Disney briefly suspended ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" last month after the host's remarks about the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk sparked widespread backlash. Once Disney reversed course, the liberal comedian drew a massive audience for his much-hyped return on September 23.
On Thursday, Oct. 2, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" averaged 1.9 million viewers, shedding 71% of the audience that tuned in for the host's return from suspension.
The decline among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 25-54 was even more significant, as "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" managed 265,000 viewers from the critical group on Thursday night to lose 85% of the 1.7 million who tuned in on Sept. 23. It marked Kimmel's smallest audience among demo viewers since the suspension.
Kimmel averaged 1.6 million viewers in 2025 before Disney decided to temporarily sideline him, so another drop would result in the show returning to its pre-scandal viewership.
ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" also trailed Fox News' "Gutfeld!" across the board on Thursday.
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Kirk's supporters panned Kimmel's non-apology, saying the ABC host failed to take responsibility for the falsehood.
"Kimmel is an unrepentant liar who tried to blame Charlie's assassination on the part of the country that just spent the last 2 weeks praying and holding vigils," Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet reacted.
1, when Kimmel first came back, Sinclair and Nexstar stations were not carrying him. Therefore, his "comeback" show ratings were lower than they otherwise would have been. (Note the rumor that these networks only agreed to run Kimmel again because Disney/ABC threatened that they would not allow them to air the Super Bowl unless they aired this fat ball of failure.)
So Kimmel is now available on dozens of more stations than he was when he did his "comeback" show.
That means that if all of these stations had carried Kimmel on his first few nights back, and thus millions more #Slacktivist lefties could have watched him, his ratings would have crashed even harder.
2, Kimmel's ratings are a disaster for Disney/ABC but because they buckled to the left-wing Hollywood mafia Jimmy Kimmel is now practically unfirable and uncancellable. ABC has not renewed his contract and, per rumors, was not going to renew it. But now they'll haven little choice but to renew this pudgy deadweight for at least a year or two.
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed 107 of President Donald Trump's nominees -- including ambassadors Herschel Walker and Sergio Gor -- as the government shutdown entered its seventh day. The move, approved 51-47, came after Republicans changed Senate rules to bypass what they called a Democrat "confirmation blockade."
Key Details:
The confirmations included over two dozen ambassadorial appointments and more than a dozen U.S. Attorneys.
Among the notable confirmations were Sergio Gor as U.S. Ambassador to India and Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs, and Herschel Walker as U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) celebrated the move on X, writing, "CONFIRMED: 107 Trump nominees en bloc... Senate business continues, even on day seven of the Schumer Shutdown."
Diving Deeper:
The U.S. Senate confirmed more than 100 of President Donald Trump's nominees on Tuesday, marking one of the largest single-day confirmation pushes of his administration -- and it came amid a weeklong government shutdown.
In a 51-47 vote, Senate Republicans approved 107 Trump nominees in one sweeping package after implementing a procedural rules change allowing for "en bloc" votes. The change, used when the majority party controls the chamber, lets the Senate confirm groups of nominees simultaneously instead of one at a time.
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Republicans framed the mass confirmations as a necessary response to what they described as a months-long blockade by Senate Democrats. "Before the government shutdown, Democrats shut down the Senate floor, freezing the confirmation process," said Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) in a statement. "Today, we broke through that obstruction and delivered results for the American people."
The move followed similar action in September, when the Senate confirmed 48 Trump nominees. Tuesday's confirmations bring the total number of Trump administration appointments approved this fall to more than 150.
Semi-Related: A DOJ attorney and I'm sure a Straight-Arrow Ham-and-Egger is refusing to prosecute Big Tish James, claiming that she sees "no probable cause" for prosecution despite Big Tish signing multiple fraudulent mortgage applications and so far offering no defense or excuse for her actions.
A top Virginia prosecutor told her colleagues she will refuse to file charges against controversial New York Attorney General Letitia James. President Donald Trump has been pushing for James to face accountability for the lawfare she waged against him during the 2024 presidential election.
With no shortage of irony, it turns out evidence exists that James committed the same real estate fraud she alleged Trump engaged in. That is the very definition of hypocritical.
Elizabeth Yusi, who is in charge of major criminal prosecutions in the Norfolk office of the Eastern District of Virginia, told two of her co-workers that she does not see any probable cause that James committed mortgage fraud, two sources told MSNBC. Yusi will present her conclusion to the new interim U.S. attorney, Lindsey Halligan, over the course of the next several weeks.
In a mortgage fraud case, probable cause exists if someone knowingly files repeated false "primary residence" certifications to boost their odds of loan approval, and if lenders rely on those lies to offer better loan terms.
Is there really a lack of evidence against James, or is Yusi trying to protect her? We all know the left protects its own, practically at any cost.
MSNBC reported that Trump appointed Halligan two weeks after announcing he would fire acting U.S. attorney Erik Siebert, who also refused to pursue fraud charges against James, as well as other charges against former FBI Director James Comey. Siebert resigned on Sept. 19 after Trump informed him he'd be replaced.
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Prosecutors in the Eastern District office expect Halligan to fire Yusi for refusing Trump's request to go after James.
Billionaire Andrej Babis's ANO party cruised to victory in the Czech Republic's parliamentary election on Saturday, raising the prospect of a government that would boost Europe's populist, anti-immigration camp and reduce support for Ukraine.
An ebullient Babis told supporters that ANO would seek a one-party cabinet but would talk with two small parties -- including the far-right SPD -- for support as his party will lack an outright majority.
He again rejected accusations that his win would make the central European nation a less reliable European Union and NATO partner.
"We want to save Europe ... and we are clearly pro-European and pro-NATO," Babis told reporters.
With nearly all results in, ANO was set to replace the current center-right cabinet led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala. Fiala congratulated Babis and conceded defeat.
ANO promised faster growth, higher wages and pensions, and lower taxes and tax discounts for students and young families during the campaign.
In basket-case France, Emmanuel Macron persists as President despite not having a majority of support in the National Assembly (and not having that support for years).
He just appointed another hopeless PM to attempt to govern with minority support, and that idiot has been forced to resign after a reign of twenty-seven days.
Lecornu, France's fifth PM in less than two years, had been tasked with convincing the country -- and investors -- that he can get a 2026 budget over the line.
He was installed in early September against a backdrop of public unrest and dissatisfaction over the messy state of French affairs.
Several successive governments had failed to pass budgets detailing spending cuts and tax rises.
France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned just weeks after his appointment, plunging the country into a fresh political crisis.
Lecornu, France's fifth PM in less than two years, quit just hours after naming a new cabinet on Sunday.
Speaking after the resignation, Lecornu said "each political party is behaving as if they have their own majority in parliament" and that the "conditions were not fulfilled" to stay in office, according to comments translated by France 24.
"I was ready to compromise, but each political party wanted the other political party to adopt its entire program," he said in a speech in the courtyard of Matignon Palace, the PM's headquarters, France 24 reported.
He now departs the role after just 27 days, making him the country's shortest-serving prime minister with little to show for his time in office.
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The right-wing National Rally posted on social media platform X that "Macronism is dead on its feet," saying the president had to choose to "dissolve parliament or resign, and quickly!"
Jean-Luc Melanchon of the far-left France Unbowed party went further, calling for Macron to be impeached. "Following the resignation of Sebastien Lecornu, we call for the immediate consideration of the motion tabled by 104 MPs for the impeachment of Emmanuel Macron," Melenchon wrote on X.
I read that Macron, who pretends to not be a leftist (note CNBC's curious insistence that he's "center-right") will finally forge a full alliance with France's left, and note that in France, the "left" means "the communists." He'll appoint a communist as PM.
Anything to avoid making a deal with Marine LePen on the invasion of third-world barbarians.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden's team intervened in February 2016 to prevent the CIA from disseminating an intelligence report to policymakers about the perceptions senior Ukrainian officials held about his son's business dealings, newly declassified memos show.
The request that the intelligence community withhold the report from others in the U.S. government by Biden's national security advisor was "extremely rare and unusual," a senior CIA official told Just the News.
"I just spoke with VP/NSA and he would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated," the vice president's Presidential Daily Brief briefer told the CIA. "Thanks for understanding."
The report, reviewed by Just the News, compiled the reactions of senior Ukrainian government officials to the December 2015 visit of Vice President Biden to Kyiv.
In the aftermath of the country's Maidan Revolution and the Russian seizure of Crimea, Biden had been appointed President Barack Obama's point man to manage U.S. policy towards the fledgling, pro-Western government.
The document shows that the Ukrainian officials in the government of then-President Petro Poroshenko, were disappointed with the vice president's visit to their country for his lack of substantive discussions with their leader. Those same officials "privately mused" about the U.S. media's scrutiny on Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine, the report shows.
"These officials viewed the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President's family to corruption in Ukraine as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power," the CIA relayed.
The intelligence report also shows that the Ukrainian officials "expressed bewilderment and disappointment" about the vice president's visit because he did not engage in any of the expected discussions about substantive matters with Poroshenko or other senior officials.
In other words, he only came to Ukraine to threaten them into dropping an investigation into Hunter Biden's employer. Rather than discussing the issues he claimed he was making the trip to discuss, he focused only on protecting Hunter Biden's foreign paymasters.
The vice president's December 2015 visit to Kyiv has been the subject of much scrutiny surrounding Hunter Biden's business dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. It was on that trip that Vice President Biden decided to alter U.S. policy to call for Poroshenko to fire his chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. The vice president threatened to withhold a substantial U.S. loan guarantee if not.
At the time, Shokin was probing Burisma and its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, for corruption. His son, Hunter, had just officially joined the board of the company in May 2014. Shortly before the vice president's trip, then-Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt warned Biden's top advisors that the U.S. government considered Burisma corrupt.
Remember when we talked about impeaching Bill Clinton after his presidency to strip him of his federal retirement payments and security team funding?
Isn't it time we do that to Biden?
Don't say "But then they'll do that to Trump." Trust me, they're already planning to do that to Trump.
President Trump suggested Monday he may use the Insurrection Act if courts continue to bar him from deploying the National Guard to cities across the U.S.
Why it matters: Trump would be the first president in more than 60 years to use the 1807 Act that allows the deployment of U.S. troops to quell domestic unrest without state approval.
Trump came close to invoking the Act earlier this year, when he sent some 700 Marines to Los Angeles to respond to ICE protests against the will of California officials.
Driving the news: A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked Trump's deployment of the National Guard Sunday evening for the second time, after the president announced plans to send troops from California to Portland.
In addition to California and Oregon suing Trump over his actions, Illinois filed a lawsuit on Monday after he said he was sending 300 members of the National Guard to Chicago.
What they're saying: "So far it hasn't been necessary, but we have an Insurrection Act for a reason," Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday.
"If people were being killed, and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I do that."
The bottom line: If Trump were to use the Insurrection Act, the National Guard would be allowed the full law enforcement powers of local police officers.
Why it matters: Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to several cities have been slowed or temporarily blocked by judges. The Insurrection Act would help him effectively bypass the court rulings by tapping authority scholars have warned is overly broad and ripe for misuse.
Trump is also talking about the possibility of throwing Race Marxist and DEI Dum-Dum Brandon Johnson in prison.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested imprisoning Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., for failing to protect federal officers as the state and city push back against his deportation efforts.
Chicago is a sanctuary city and has seen its mayor declare "ICE-free zones" this week as Immigration and Customs Enforcement attempt to remove illegal aliens from the area.
"Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!" Trump posted on Truth Social.
Morbidly Obese Antifa Sturnkommandant JB Pritzker ordered his police not to cooperate with ICE, citing his nonexistent "sovereign" right to ignore federal law. I saw a Xeet calling him "Heifferson Davis."
BREAKING - President Trump confirms he has no problem invoking the Insurrection Act if rogue judges, mayors, and governors continue holding up and impeding federal law. pic.twitter.com/EXiNMBV2vd
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) October 6, 2025
It’s happening.
Trump responds to another question about invoking the Insurrection Act!
He reminds everyone that it’s been invoked many times before, and says if Governors won’t stop crime, “we’ll do the job”.
The Left never fails to defend and worship terrorism at all levels and in all venues. It has become so obvious recently that the Party itself knows how bad this looks, or at least some factions within the Party do. The trial balloon they sent up at the Atlantic was a limp-wristed acknowledgment of the problem and filled with wobbly and outlandish "both-sidesism" with the Atlantic's brand of "just trust me bro" assertions that most political violence was historically right-wing, but it's clear that somebody in the Party is worried about Leftist terrorism and ordered the balloon. They do this all the time when some faction decides that they need to make a change, and the Atlantic is a regular venue for them. We saw it several times during COVID.
Like during COVID, this early trial balloon showed that the base is not willing to consider it. Most of the Party isn't willing to consider a change. I don't know which faction was responsible for the trial balloon, but it is clearly in the minority and not well aligned with the rest of the Party. Every day, the hits just keep coming. Not just Leftist terrorism, but the grotesque celebration and cheering of Leftist terrorism. You can't swing a cat without seeing gleeful adulation of some terrorist or terrorist action, and open encouragement to do more of it.
There is, of course, the ongoing celebration of the Kirk assassination. Then there is the defense of Jay Jones' bloodlust. The glorification of Mangione. The constant wagon-circling around Antifa. The deafening silence around trans-perpetrated mass shootings. These are just the recent ones, and the list goes on and on and on. But the problem is very much deeper than that. The Left doesn't have a "terrorism problem," terrorism is part of Leftist identity and worldview. The recent activity is certainly much bigger and louder than before, but it is nothing new. Terrorism is in Leftist DNA and they can't help themselves. If there is a lefty terrorist, he is worthy of worship and defense.
Late last month, the Chicago Teachers Union did something very typical for the Left: they performed public worship of a terrorist on X:
Rest in Power, Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur. 🕊️
Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of Black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle.
Assata refused to be silenced. She taught us that "It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains."
Don't know who Shakur was? The Community Notes are there to help:
In 1973, Assata Shakur murdered a NJ State Trooper & was convicted of first-degree murder, armed robbery, and aggravated assault.
In 1979, armed allies stormed prison, freed her, and smuggled her to Cuba
The FBI added her to its Most Wanted Terrorists list.
Shakur was a Black Panther before joining the hardcore racial communist Black Liberation Army. It was during her time with BLA that she was involved in a shootout during a traffic stop on the NJ Turnpike that led to her imprisonment and subsequent jailbreak and asylum in Cuba. She was a radical communist and a convicted murderer. And The Chicago Teacher Union invites her to "rest in power." The white dove emoji was a particularly nice touch.
This is a minor sideshow, of course. That's the point. Leftists glorifying terrorists is not only nothing new, it's downright routine. Simple hagiographies of terrorists are becoming dull at this point, now that Democrat governors are flirting with actual open war against the National Guard to defend terrorist encampments at federal buildings and Leftists are regularly gunning down their political enemies real and imagined.
They go after soft targets like churches and schools, hard targets like Trump and middling-difficulty targets like Kirk. Their violence is both random and targeted, and they can be sure to receive defense and glorification. The Party cultivates its warriors and sets them loose, then never forgets them. Even decades later, some Party organ or another will at least spare a moment to slaver over a fellow murderous communist as they send her off to "rest in power." Sometimes it's the press, sometimes it's a politician, sometimes it's a teachers union - but they never fail to celebrate a left-wing terrorist while they industriously labor to produce more of them.
It has been this way for a very long time, and it will continue. It has to continue, because it is exactly what it looks like. This is who they are, and terrorism is what they do.
Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson suggested on Tuesday that the Chicago Police should arrest ICE agents and other federal officers who he claims are breaking his new executive order aimed at hampering immigration enforcement.
On Monday, Johnson signed a dubious executive order creating “ICE-Free Zones” to ban federal agents from using city-owned properties as staging areas for immigration enforcement. Johnson’s proclamation comes as President Donald Trump suggested that the anti-ICE actions by Chicago’s leaders are akin to an insurrection against the federal government.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) claims President Trump’s focus on Chicago “has nothing to do with crime” but failed to mention that the Windy City has witnessed over 6,200 murders during the last decade.
And that my friends is how we square the circle and segue Insurrection with Genocide. I do not have the breakdown of the victims nor the perpetrators by race, but I would bet that the vast majority of both categories are colored people of color. Chicago and Illinois have been controlled by Democrats for the better part of a century. Ditto virtually every major metropolitan area in the nation. They may not match Chicago's body count but for sure they're proportional to their populations quite similar.
But murder and violent crime or crime in general aren't just part of the landscape as many Leftist pols and their media mouthpieces will assert, so as to deflect the obvious source of the blame: The breakdown of morality and personal responsibility are directly related and go hand in hand with the ascendancy of Democrat/Leftist/Socialist politics and policy going back to the accursed LBJ and his Great Society policies that created the vast welfare state which intentionally destroyed the black family in order to preserve Democrat political power on a national level by controlling social policies that kept them and the cities in their grasp lo these many decades. Were it not for the perversion and dissolution of the free love, feminist and so-called black liberation movements that created the socioeconomic rifts and divisions in our society that post World War 2 otherwise would not have arisen, and certainly never to the levels we saw starting with the race riots and anti-war riots of the 60s and beyond.
I guess Chris Murphy would echo his hero and mentor Joe Stalin, insofar as the death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic.
In this case, George Floyd being the shining example among others vs, 6200 Chicago citizens. The former is the bloody red shirt that the Democrats wave in our faces and those of their constituents while the latter they completely discount since it's the George Floyds of this world that brought about the demise of those 6,200. And that is the inconvenient raw awful truth of the matter.
Which is why as more and more people across the political spectrum come to realize that, thanks to the likes of Charlie Kirk of blessed memory and others, as well as the in-your-face reality of life as lived on the streets of Chicago and elsewhere slaps people upside the head as to the evil of Democrat Leftism, we have Antifa and their goon squads hurling molotov cocktails and gunning for Trump and his allies.
Man With 200 Explosives And Leftist Manifesto Arrested Outside Supreme Court Event At Church: Police. . . Two days after a Biden judge gave light sentence to attempted Kavanaugh assassin, church event historically attended by conservative justices targeted
There often comes a moment in the pursuit of a noble but hopeless cause when the idealist discards both ideals and human bonds, embracing barbarism in the name of a higher purpose. The progressive Left has reached that moment in its moral decline. Once self-styled protectors of the marginalized, progressives now push their opponents beyond the margins—and beyond the pale. Their cause is the defense of victims, yet some have victimized their adversaries to death, while others have mocked and abused the dead afterward. Champions of compassion have mutated into purveyors of hatred. Whether these perverse reversals have penetrated the sect’s own consciousness, I cannot say.
Possibly, the Left’s belief system made its descent into barbarism inevitable. Progressives long ago cast aside God, religion, and other transcendental restraints. The moral order and conventional rules of a supposedly oppressive society mean less than nothing to them. What remains is hedonism and the will to power. In the Internet age, both find expression in rituals of demonization—destroying those whose opinions offend them, whether through harassment by a digital lynch mob, coerced confessions and firings, or, as in the cold-blooded killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, outright political assassination. It is the same principle aimed at the same end: hate the haters more brutally than they hate you.
Until the Democrat Party, Leftism/Socialism and every individual and institution in and out of government who promotes it is utterly and ruthlessly purged from every aspect of our society and nation, we face an existential threat to ourselves, our way of life and our future. How we go about doing this in a manner that is consistent with our morals, values ,ethics and the system we are trying to preserve or in truth restore, is the multi-trillion dollar question.
Ditto Islam. Until it goes the way of the Dodo, the world is likely destined to descend into a new dark age worse than the one in which Islam first metastasized some 1500 or so years ago.
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
Despite the gravity of the charges, Martinez’s possession of a firearm during the attack, and her history of harassment of federal officials, the judge released both defendants back into he community. Suspects Who Ambushed and Rammed DHS Agents in Chicago RELEASED.
“Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people,” Paxton said in a statement. (Leftism/Socialism is the cancer, the rest are symptoms - jjs) Texas AG Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations into Left-Wing Terror Cells
Only Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., addressed The Federalist’s inquiry. Though Kaine criticized Jones’ remarks, he also refused to call for him to drop out. “There is nothing that can justify these indefensible words, and they are contrary to all I’ve known about Jay Jones for decades,” Kaine said. “With hundreds of thousands of Virginians already having voted, it’s up to Virginians to decide.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) claims President Trump’s focus on Chicago “has nothing to do with crime” but failed to mention that the Windy City has witnessed over 6,200 murders during the last decade. Killing Fields: Over 6,200 Murders in Chicago During Last Decade (Speaking of "Genocide" Hello Democrats! - jjs)
Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson suggested on Tuesday that the Chicago Police should arrest ICE agents and other federal officers who he claims are breaking his new executive order aimed at hampering immigration enforcement. (BRANDON JOHNSON SHOULD SWING FOR FOMENTING INSURRECTION - jjs) Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Calls for Arrests of ICE Officers
“In the middle of the night, federal agents pulled women and children out of their beds, crashed down the doors to their homes, destroyed their apartments, zip-tied children and others, and detained immigrants and U.S. citizens alike for hours in vans,” Durbin claimed. “When one witness complained about the treatment of the small children, an agent laughed at her and said, ‘F them kids.’” Mass--assassin-linked TURDBIN Durbin Spreads Cartoonishly False Hoax About ICE Agents Tying Up Children
The vast majority of respondents—78 percent—said they favored “deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes.” Even among Democrats, 69 percent said they favored the policy, while 77 percent of independents and 87 percent of Republicans do. Poll: 78 Percent of Americans Favor Deportation of Criminal Illegal Immigrants
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the majority of his caucus again rejected a continuing resolution Monday, extending the government shutdown. Trump, who’s administration previously teased mass firings as a result of the shutdown, told reporters Tuesday that such could happen if the government shutdown continues for four to five days. Trump Gives Democrats Deadline For When Permanent Government Firings Will Begin
The Hill reported that while Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA) is advocating for legislation that would “extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credit” until the end of 2026, Jeffries criticized Republicans for thinking “Democrats are going to go along with a one-year extension” of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies... Hakeem Jeffries Rejects Legislation to Extend Obamacare Subsidies for One Year
Democrats promise “affordability,” but their record shows the opposite—higher taxes, tighter regulations, and policies that drive families and businesses out of blue states. The Democrats’ ‘Affordability Agenda’ is a Fraud(swap affordability with "entire" - jjs)
Senators voted along party lines to approve the large group of nominees, which included former football star and ex-Senate candidate Herschel Walker and former White House personnel director Sergio Gor. The mass confirmation of the president’s picks comes after Senate Republicans changed chamber precedent to expedite the confirmation process, citing months of unprecedented obstruction from Senate Democrats. Senate GOP Confirms Herschel Walker, 106 Others In Massive Single Vote After Backlog
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The benchmark December contract briefly touched $4,015 before easing slightly, putting gold up more than 50 percent since January. That is the biggest yearly gain since 1979. The metal has outperformed major stock indexes and nearly doubled the gains of technology shares, marking a broad move into hard assets as confidence in traditional hedges like the dollar and Treasurys has waned. Gold Tops $4,000 for First Time as Investors Seek Safety Amid Political and Economic Strains
ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
Israel is winning, decisively putting an end to those who seek its destruction. That’s the toughest pill for Israel’s haters to swallow. Two Years After October 7: Israel Isn’t Dead. Hamas Will Be Soon. (call me when all of Islam goes the way of the Dodo - jjs)
Reyes Rigo Servia “bit a female medical staff member … at Ketziot Prison after the staff member escorted her back from a routine medical examination as part of preparations for her expected deportation tomorrow.” Hamas Flotilla Activist Detained for Biting Israeli Medic (Tyson Hokyfield boogaloo? - jjs)
Christopher F. Rufo: October 7’s second anniversary is cause for sober reflection on how to confront an ancient hatred. The Right Way to Fight Anti-Semitism (by arming real Jews and abolishing Islam - jjs)
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
From New York to London, progressive Jews are betraying their coreligionists’ interests. (coreligionists is a bitter and tragic accident of birth, nothing more! - jjs) Jews for Mamdani? Jews Against Tommy Robinson?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The U.K. is in the midst of rolling out its proposed mandatory digital ID scheme. At the same time, U.S. Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Dan Bongino briefed nine Republican members of Congress that former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden’s FBI allegedly targeted them with surveillance measures during the Jan. 6 investigations, led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, Fox Digital reported. UK’s Digital Dystopia Is A Warning For America — But Some Are Treating It Like A Roadmap
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The 118-page book covers 40 climate topics often discussed in science classes, as well as among the general public and media, and provides the data to show the earth is not experiencing a climate crisis. The book is organized into four sections: (1) Extreme Weather, (2) Economics and Policy, (3) Climate Change Impacts, and (4) Underlying Science. This makes it ideal as a tool for teachers to bring the latest climate data into their lesson plans. New ‘Climate at a Glance’ Book Challenges ‘Climate Crisis’ Narrative with Hard Data
More states are importing electricity from neighboring states instead of building generating capacity in their own. This is a crisis in the making. The Looming Energy Crisis in the US
According to documents declassified Monday by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Ukrainian administration officials believed not only that Biden’s December 2015 official government visit to Ukraine served no compelling government purpose but that Biden was being hypocritical in professing to target corruption within Ukraine’s government. Declassified Docs: Obama Admin Withheld Reports Critical of Biden’s Ukraine Visit at the VP Office’s Request
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
A majority of voters, 52%, believe that Trump is fulfilling what he promised throughout his 2024 campaign, prompting him to currently have a 43% approval rating, Enten said while citing his aggregate data. The voters expected Trump to secure the border, bring down inflation and address crime, which have caused his favorability rating to remain steady. CNN’s Harry Enten Says Majority Of Americans Believe Trump Is Delivering On Promises
On Monday evening, the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump "called off diplomatic outreach to Venezuela" and stated that "The move paves the way for a possible military escalation against drug traffickers or the government of Nicolás Maduro." Trump Ends Venezuela Talks; Dems and the Dictator Melt Down.
NASA’s management had previously extended the orbiter’s mission several times, with the last extension going until the end of the 2025 fiscal year, that ended on September 30, 2025. No new budget has yet been approved, and the proposed Trump budget had included no money for extending the mission farther. The Juno mission at Jupiter is almost certainly over
No real information beyond that. The tweet adds this tantalizing tidbit, stating that this action is “through the island nation of Tonga covering: launch, on-orbit, and reentry services, spaceflight travel, in-space manufacturing services, custom manufacturing & processing of pharmaceuticals.” SpaceX registers the trademark “Starfall” at the U.S. Patent Office
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
. . . conservative parents have voiced concerns about various incidents of progressive social themes slipped into the streamer’s “family” programming — cross-dressing boys in “Strawberry Shortcake,” a nonbinary bison character in “Ridley Jones,” the openly transgender lead in “Dead End: Paranormal Park,” and many others. Parents flex their power with anti-woke ‘Cancel Netflix’ boycott
It features 5Gb and 10Gb network ports, five 3.5" drive bays, three M.2 slots (convertible to one M.2 slot and two U.2 bays), RAM expandable up to 128GB, and a Ryzen 370 CPU.
That's a 28W part with 12 Zen 5 cores and 16 graphics cores, and it's AMD's current fastest mainstream APU, six times as fast as the N150 found in certain low-end NASes we just bought.
On the other hand, it costs $1019 without any memory or drives, vs. a current price of $204 for the Beelink Me Mini, so you definitely pay for what you get.
The author notes that this spending did contribute to higher energy prices and continued high interest rates, and estimates that without all of these GDP would still have grown at around 2%:
Our economy might just be three AI data centers in a trench coat.
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - October 7, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Hope you've had a terrific Tuesday! The ONT is here to help bring your day to a close. Special hello to the lurkers out there. Won't you please consider jumping into the gray boxes?
Zeroe Caviar is a plant-based fish egg alternative made from seaweed whose creators say tastes just like the real thing.
Plant-based food alternatives have been getting increasingly popular over the last few years, with burgers and steaks among the most targeted categories, but few would have imagined we would one day get a vegan caviar. Cleverly named ‘Zeroe Caviar,’ the treat is made using seaweed grown organically off the coast of France, combined with other natural ingredients like cayenne, black pepper, turmeric, laurel, leek, dill and tarragon. It has already been adopted by Michelin-star restaurants and chefs, and according to most reviews so far, it tastes remarkably like real fish roe.
“With its delicate textures and exquisite flavors, our caviar will take your taste buds on an unforgettable journey,” the Zeroe Caviar website states. “Made with a deep commitment to marine conservation, our guilt-free caviar lets you savor each bite with a clear conscience. Our caviar is entirely plant-based, meaning no fish or animal products are used in its production.”
Families in Taylor, Texas, just got a wonderful surprise — an anonymous donor has paid off all outstanding school lunch debt for students in the Taylor Independent School District.
District officials said they won’t be revealing how much debt was cleared or how many students were affected, but the donor asked to remain anonymous.
TISD also took the opportunity to remind families that every child is served a meal, no matter their balance or meal status.
"Every child is served regardless of their balance or meal status."
Hundreds of community members flooded the district’s post with messages of gratitude for the anonymous donor’s generosity.
Cool story. Maybe the anonymous donor would like to extend the generosity to an upcoming assembly of Hordelings in east Texas??
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DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Edition
(from thisdayinmusic.com)
Born on this date in 1968: English musician Thom Yorke who is the singer and main songwriter of the rock band Radiohead.
Born on this date in 1951: American singer and songwriter, John 'Cougar' Mellencamp
Born on this date in 1945: English singer-songwriter, drummer and music video director Kevin Godley. With 10cc, he had the 1975 UK No.1 & US No.2 single 'I'm Not In Love', plus 10 other UK Top 30 hits including 2 No.1's). He was later part of the collaboration duo Godley and Creme
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Ace mentioned it in the sidebar, and yes indeed I am ABSOLUTELY excited about the Rush tour next year.
Do I have a favorite Rush song, you probably aren't wondering. Well, if I absolutely HAVE to choose one, it's this lesser known track from Permanent Waves
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Weekly commenter stats for week of 10-5-2025
AoSHQ Commenter Statistics:
Number of posts: 101
Number of comments: 26648
Number of unique hashes: 2053
Top 10 commenters:
1 [500 comments] 'Bulg' [71.01 posts/day]
2 [399 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer'
3 [375 comments] 'Blonde Morticia'
4 [355 comments] 'I used to have a different nic'
5 [353 comments] 'whig'
6 [348 comments] 'qdpsteve'
7 [329 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava'
8 [316 comments] 'What's this?'
9 [313 comments] 'Axeman'
10 [310 comments] 'Christopher R Taylor'
Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [314 names] 'What's this?' [44.59 unique names/day]
2 [203 names] 'Old Man Adams'
3 [89 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
4 [83 names] 'President Miklos J. Trump'
5 [39 names] 'Duncanthrax'
6 [38 names] 'Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison'
7 [33 names] 'Bill Lumpnekker, My pronouns are They/Them and It'
8 [26 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'
9 [23 names] 'mindful webworker - it said no comments when I got there'
10 [22 names] 'gKWVE'
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Podcast: CBD and Sefton are joined by retired Army Major Diogenes to discuss Secretary of War Hegseth, women in the military, drones, the left's masks slipping, and more!
Chris Dreja RIP: of the legendary 60s Rock band The Yardbirds has died at 79.
Dreja co-founded The Yardbirds in 1963; playing rhythm guitar alongside lead axman Tom Topham, singer Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarthy and bassist Paul Samwell-Smith. The group would go on to feature three of the most celebrated guitarists in rock history in Eric Clapton, who replaced Topham in 1993; Jeff Beck, who took over for Clapton in 1965; and future Led Zeppelin heavyweight Jimmy Page, who joined in 1966; when Samwell-Smith left. (J.J. Sefton)
I have no regrets about quitting the NFL.
I also have no regrets about quitting the increasingly gay James Bond:
Bleeding Fool
@BleedingFool
Amazon removed the guns from key art used on every James Bond film on Prime -ostensibly to provide a unified look for the series on streaming. Alas, removing the weapons left 007 in some awkward poses.
What does this portend about Amazon MGM's handling of Bond?
Podcast: Hegseth slaps the generals, is the Gaza peace plan another chimera, Iowa's illegal alien school superintendent, the deep state subverts our republic, and more!
Sinclair folds under political pressure from Democrats like Bernie Sanders who demanded they air Jimmy Kimmel again; for reasons they won't even pretend to explain, that kind of political pressure is allowable and even righteous.
Podcast: A Palestinian state will lead to more violence, The UN plays dangerous games with President Trump, the newest ICE attack, will the Right respond with violence, and more!
Can Texas A&M be saved? Mere days after its woke President was forced out over his DEI/LGBT advocacy, the university just posted for a tenure-track “Latinx Environmental History” position. “For queries about the position please contact Dr. Sonia Hernández electronically at soniah@tamu.edu” I just might query about it. [Buck]
Where are all the Madison Cornbreads of yesteryear?
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