Daily Tech News 15 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Microsoft has updated Windows Search and... Fixed it? (WCCFTech)
Well, they've at least stopped shoving it full of ads, which goes a big way toward fixing it.
- Micrsoft just release a set of patches that fix 570 security holes in Windows and their other software. (Krebs on Security)
That's... Good, I guess? If still terrifying.
- Microsoft also fixed Secure Boot. (Ars Technica)
Which as it happens has been insecure boot since 2013.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - July 14, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Storming The Bastille!
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday ONT. Happy Bastille Day to those who celebrate. Did you bring cake for everyone?
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Lawnmunchers Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Historic Vids @historyinmemes
A genuine 1980 photograph shows the supertanker Esso Languedoc being struck by a massive rogue wave off Durban, South Africa. Captured by the ship's chief officer, the image remains one of the most famous examples of extreme ocean conditions.The photograph captured what many scientists once considered nearly impossible: a rogue wave. Taken in 1980 as the oil supertanker Esso Languedoc sailed off Durban, South Africa, it shows a towering wall of water rising far above the ship's bow. The crew estimated the wave reached around 25--30 meters (82--98 feet) high.
For much of the 20th century, rogue waves were often treated as sailor's tales because traditional wave models suggested such extreme events were almost impossible. Images like this, combined with eyewitness accounts, helped change scientific understanding. Later advances in satellite monitoring, ocean buoys, and modeling confirmed that rogue waves are real and can form when multiple wave systems combine their energy into a single massive crest.
The waters off South Africa are especially dangerous because powerful Southern Ocean swells can collide with the strong Agulhas Current, creating unpredictable sea conditions. In 1995, the Draupner oil platform in the North Sea recorded the first scientifically measured rogue wave, a 25.6-meter (84-foot) wave that provided definitive proof these extreme events exist.
Cat adopts orphaned monkey.
Little kitten already understand there is no "I" in team.
This chicken has seen Roadhouse too many times.
Rescue dogs are extra-devoted.
Hero dog chases off bear menacing little boy.
Old but fun: Boys play ball with a playful elk.
Dog really wants to turn a kiddie pool into a boat but it's not big enough to support him.
Lion misses his Emotional Support Dachshund.
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Inflation Fell by the Greatest Amount Since 2020, Due to the Suspension of the Iran War
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Unfortunately this False Peace is now over.
But one can see the inflation was only due to Iran blowing up oil ships transiting the Strait.
Inflation slowed in June by its largest monthly drop since April 2020 on falling energy prices -- slashing the odds the Fed will raise interest rates at its meeting this month.The Consumer Price Index rose 3.5% in June over the past 12 months, cooling off from 4.2% in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday.
On a monthly basis, the inflation rate declined 0.4% -- more than expectations of a 0.2% dip.
Core CPI -- the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, which excludes volatile food and energy prices -- ticked down to 2.6%, still well above central bankers' 2% goal.
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"Tuesday's weaker-than-expected CPI print suggests the inflation surge driven by the Iran war is fading, but this may just be a temporary relief as tensions have escalated in recent days," Skyler Weinand, chief investment officer at Regan Capital, said in a note Tuesday.
Indeed, now that the psychopaths of Iran have forced the US to begin pounding them again, oil prices have shot back up.
Blockade underway: The US has reimposed its naval blockade of Iranian ports, according to a US military statement. The US previously enforced a blockade between April and June.• Ceasefire in tatters: The US military has also launched its fourth consecutive day of strikes on Iranian targets. State media reported explosions in the port city of Bandar Abbas and several locations near Sirik. Meanwhile, Iran has targeted US allies in the region, including Kuwait.
• Trump rescinds toll decision: US President Donald Trump announced earlier he will not impose a 20% reimbursement fee on cargo moving through the Strait of Hormuz, saying it will be replaced by Gulf state investments in the US.
• Oil prices rise: Global oil prices are up sharply, with benchmark Brent crude rising to its highest level in over a month.
Trump's idea that he would charge ships the US was protecting a 20% charge has been retracted.
President Trump backed off his proposed 20% toll on all ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday in favor of investment in the US by Persian Gulf states.
Trump said in a Truth Social post the reversal was "[b]ased on highly productive conversations with Middle East Leadership."
"Those Investments will be MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future," he added.
Trump also claimed that exports of oil were "flowing like never before" thanks to recent US airstrikes on Iran, and "the Strait of Hormuz is open to All Ship traffic except for Iran -- and that is because of their lying, violent, malicious leadership, which is taking them down the path of TOTAL DESTRUCTION."
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Trump announced the new tolling scheme on Monday, declaring that the US would be the "guardian" of the Strait of Hormuz and would collect a reimbursement equal to 20% of all cargo value, which one shipping industry expert predicted could amount to $200 billion annually.
"We'll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we'll call it the guardian angel of the strait, and we should be reimbursed for that," Trump had suggested during an interview on "Fox & Friends."
The US is pounding IRGC headquarters and weapons depots, as well as naval assets on the coast.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Chuck Grassley @ChuckGrassley4h
I received records frm DOJ confirming Jack Smith's investigative team reviewed the contents of text msgs sent by 44 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Im 1 of the 44
Im alerting my colleagues who were impacted and will release the records w Sen Johnson so American ppl can see the evidence
The House will vote to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. No more changing clocks every six months like a mental patient.
The U.S. House will vote this week on a bill making daylight savings time permanent, despite warnings from medical, education and safety organizations.The Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, which would end the nearly nationwide biannual clock changing and make daylight savings time permanent year-round, advanced out of committee Monday afternoon.
States that use standard time year-round -- currently only Arizona and Hawaii -- before the law goes into effect wouldn't have to change.
Ana Paulina Luna has been holding up all legislation until the traitor Thune forces the SAVE Act through. Mike Johnson has offered Luna attaching as the SAVE Act is attached to a bill funding the State Department.
Mitch McConnell's Rent-Boy has already said he'll strip it out.
Johnson has said he'll facilitate a process that would attach the SAVE American Act to a bill to fund the State Department. Luna and other Republicans believe the maneuver will make it hard for the Senate to oppose the funding packages.Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said she'll support a procedural rule that would allow the House to consider a bill to fund the State Department and a measure to make daylight savings time permanent.
"We will try the MIRV process on the condition that Speaker Johnson attaches the SAVE America Act to all the appropriation bills and all must-pass bills here in the House and ensures it is sent to the Senate as one bill," Luna said on X.
The vote to reopen the House floor on Tuesday would end a power struggle between Luna and Speaker Mike Johnson over the election security bill, the SAVE America Act, Politico reported.
Johnson has said he'll facilitate a process that would attach the SAVE American Act to a bill to fund the State Department. Luna and other Republicans believe the maneuver will make it hard for the Senate to oppose the funding packages.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said he won't go for the plan, and Luna's statement put pressure on the South Dakota Republican to reconsider.
"If John Thune strips it out in the Senate that will be on him and the entire country should be watching what he does. If he wants to actively work against Voter I.D. & the SAVE America Act he must face the consequences of his actions. His State party should censure him and/or he should be primaried if he wants to betray his constituents in this manner. That is the nature of politics," Lunsa said.
Yeah he doesn't care. The entire purpose of the GOPe is to betray and restrain conservative voters. They're proud to do it.
Mamdani ran on a platform of bringing rents down. Despite thousands of people fleeing the shithole city of NYC, rents just hit their highest levels in history.
Under the leadership of race-communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, rent in Manhattan has risen to an all-time high of $5,295 a month, representing a nearly 10 percent increase year-over-year.
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With the cost of living booming and Mamdani backing a "tax the rich" agenda to pay for his hyped-up socialist policies, New York City seems to be dying. A study from the New York Post showed that the city lost nearly $11 billion in tax revenue after a mass exodus of millionaires. Meanwhile, 40 percent of New York City's units are occupied by foreign born tenants, many of whom filled vacancies left after caravans fled the city during the COVID pandemic.
Mamdani and his communists are doing such a great job they've voted themselves all a massive pay raise.
NYC Council members want to give themselves 18.2% pay hike -- and set automatic increases every year after
Pay yourself first -- over and over again!Shameless city lawmakers are pushing to give themselves eye-watering 18.2% raises -- in a scheme that will also give them automatic pay hikes of at least 2% every year in the future.
City Council Member Nantasha Williams (D-27) introduced a bill that would inflate her and her colleagues' salaries from $148,500 to $175,500 backdated to January, while also ballooning pay for the mayor, the City Council speaker and other elected positions.
The bill comes days after the lawmakers signed off on a record-breaking $126 billion city budget and includes salaries even higher than a 16% raise the council tried to sneak by in a similar bank-account boosting measure at the end of their session last year.
And the bill also ensures taxpayers will be on the hook to pay elected officials more every year -- with no requirement for public debate or a City Council vote.
Under the proposed law, if the council doesn't vote to hike salaries for four years, raises kick in anyway, at either 2% per year or 8.25% overall -- whichever is less....
The mayor's salary would also get boosted from $258,750 to $305,800 and Council Speaker Julie Menin's would rise from $164,500 to $194,000 -- though both leaders have said they wouldn't take the pay bumps.
Mamdani hasn't taken a stance on whether he was in favor of the hikes and said he'd leave it for the City Council to debate.
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Terrorism Works: DHS Instructs ICE to Stop Conducting Traffic Stops After Illegal Alien Attempted to Ram His Car Into ICE Agents and Was Justifiably Shot and Killed
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is terrorism, and the Democrat Party supports it.
A Biddeford, Maine, resident is reportedly dead after he weaponized his car against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent(s), causing at least one to shoot in self-defense.
Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-132nd District) released a statement on Monday, confirming the bare facts of the incident, but he and the press are jumping to the conclusion that the dead activist is the victim. The reality is that when a person attempts to run over an officer with his car, he is using the car as a deadly weapon, meriting a potentially deadly response. Furthermore, if that is what happened, the activist died a felon because it is explicitly against federal law to attempt to injure or interfere with ICE agents.
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The Post Millennial reported that an eyewitness described seeing a person "trying to hit the ICE officer" with a car, causing the officer to shoot. Since a car being used to run over someone is very certainly a deadly weapon, the facts in the case would seem to be fairly straightforward. There is no information as of yet on any details about the identity of the dead ICE-hater.
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As of the start of this year, attacks on ICE had gone up by 1,347%, while death threats against ICE had increased by an almost unimaginable 8,000%. Given the endless violence against ICE, it is actually remarkable that more federal officers and activists have not died.
And here's something the mainstream media and main Democrats will not tell you: 18 U.S. Code 111 penalizes anyone who "forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties." In other words, the Biddeford wacko was not only doing something obviously dangerous when he or she tried to run over the ICE agents, but this action was also very clearly in violation of federal law.
But the terrorism of the left is always indulged, because the terrorists are part of the same leftwing establishment that controls our institutions.
ICE will stop making traffic stops except for the most heinous illegal alien criminals, at least as long as it takes to retrain them.
Retrain them how? Are they supposed to allow themselves to be attacked by leftwing terrorists and illegal alien criminals?
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_BREAKING: Per multiple federal sources to @FoxNews, ICE has been instructed to immediately cease most vehicle stops during immigration enforcement operations nationwide, except for operations targeting the most egregious criminal aliens.
This comes after two people were killed by ICE in shootings in TX and ME in the last week in incidents that began as vehicle stops. DHS alleges one of those incidents was a ramming attempt.
I'm told this will be temporary until ICE officers receive new training on vehicle stops.
The policy change will have significant impacts as many of ICE's arrests begin as vehicle stops when they find and follow a target, as we've witnessed on multiple embeds.
More to come as we get it.
First scooped by @JennieSTaer
"Elliot" Page, Who Plays a Great Greek Warrior in Christopher Nolan's Odyssey: Gender Is Just a "Quaint Myth"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
If you see this movie, you love Elliot Page.
She's a transgender Rachel Zegler. She's taking down a movie because she just can't shut her enormous mouth.
Transgender actor and The Odyssey star Elliot Page came out against traditional gender roles, calling the male-female dynamic a "quaint myth" and insisting that if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.Appearing on the extremist, left-wing Democracy Now podcast, Page attacked the "cis hetero patriarchal structure" and claimed that the traditional way we view gender is scientifically inaccurate.
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On the podcast, Page, who narrates the film, insisted that the normal gender ideas that mankind have supported for all of recorded history are "absurd."
"In terms of looking at nature as if it's some sort of cis hetero patriarchal structure is absurd, and that this, you know, gender binary that we've created is nothing but a quaint little myth," Page said.
The actor added that Second Nature, the documentary he is flogging on the podcast, "really shows what we have been taught in school in regards to these structures -- men being superior, women being inferior. You know, submissive or what have you -- it being this heterosexual existence is just completely false."
Page goes on to assert that the idea that queer is normal and traditional gender roles are "false" has been "suppressed" from general knowledge.
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The five foot one, 106-pound actor recently sparked controversy by being cast as a Greek Warrior in director Christopher Nolan's epic remake of The Odyssey. Detractors thought it was absurd to cast a tiny trans actor as a powerful warrior in the epic tale.
It turns out the 5'1" woman is not playing mighty Achilles, but another great warrior, "Sinon," I think they said, who was called "the greatest soldier" in the Greek army.
Chris Gore and Alan Ng saw the movie. They split in their reviews: Gore says it's disappointing and boring but "not a disaster," while Ng says it is a disaster, and so boring it's hard to get through.
They do say that the Stunt Casting isn't too much of a factor because those are small roles with little screen time. I mean, yes, we knew that Helen of Troy would just be in the beginning, but still this absurd casting stops any audience member from enjoying what should be the point of making a historical, or mythic, epic: feeling that this is something like what it must have really looked like.
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Liberal Establishment NYT Columnist Thomas Edsall: Democrats Can Beat Republicans with One Easy Trick -- They Just Have to Adopt Republican Positions on the Three Most Salient Issues Confronting the Nation.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Democrat Senator Elisa Slotkin: If the SAVE Act Is Passed Democrats Will Never Win Another Election In Any State
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Quite an admission.
TheBlaze @theblaze22h
Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin: "The SAVE America Act would make it hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election."
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktokMichigan Senator Elisa Slotkin says if the SAVE Act passes then Democrats wouldn't win another election in any state
She just accidentally blurted out the entire scheme...
Democrats can't win without illegals voting. Democrats can't win without cheating.
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CNBC: Here Are The Ten Worst States to Live In or Start a Business In. They're All, Get This, the Red States Experiencing The Highest In-Migration.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You will not be surprised to learn that one of CNBC's main criteria for deeming a state the "worst" to live in is whether they... allow transexuals in opposite-sex bathrooms.
Bennett's Phylactery @extradeadjcbReasons states wind up on this list (not exaggerating)
1. Not enough abortions
2. Not gay enough
3. "food insecurity"
4. Not enough HR rules
5. Not enough gun laws
6. Not enough therapists
7. Not enough working moms
8. Not enough affirmative action
Colin Wright @SwipeWrightHere are the reasons CNBC ranked Tennessee as "America's Worst Place to Live in 2026."
1. Laws require people to use facilities matching their sex.
2. Localities can't create laws circumventing 1.
3. The Governor designated June "Nuclear Family Month."
4. TN isn't "inclusive," meaning the state knows that men who claim to be women aren't women and should not be treated as such.Do these sound like negatives to you?
I moved from California to Tennessee in 2022 and it was probably the best decision I've ever made. I love it here.
Other than crime rates, which most often occur in red-state cities, which are the bluest areas of said states, the criteria for "quality of life" that CNBC uses are woke as a joke. Environmentalism, free healthcare, unions, and prioritizing the rainbow are what CNBC looked at.
Here are some samples from the report. From the intro:To score the states for quality of life, we use hard data on factors like crime rates, air quality, and healthcare. We also consider the cost and availability of childcare, inclusiveness of state laws, and reproductive rights. Some states offer exemplary quality of life. But these ten states do not make the grade.
So, abortion, trannies, and DEI. Got it.
For some reason, most people seem to think that states are better off without this agenda.
I have to show you the whole blurb for my home state of Georgia. The wokesters gave us a grade of F, so be proud, Georgians!Georgia offers few protections for LGBTQ+ people, making it one of America's least inclusive states."Georgia still remains a state where there is no place for hate, and I can assure all Georgians of that today," Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said in April, when he signed a bill aimed at protecting religious freedom.
But critics feared the law could be used to permit other types of discrimination, especially because Georgia is another of the five states with no public accommodation law protecting non-disabled people.
The Peach State offers minimal worker protections, particularly when it comes to the right to organize.
Side note: If you're wanting to move from a blue state to the Peach State, don't. We full.
Who's number one in the woke CNBC's ideological penalty box? The Volunteer State. Tennessee dares to offer counterprogramming to Pride Month (GASP)!
Tennessee Republicans, led by Gov. Bill Lee, make no apologies for a rash of state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community, including a so-called "bathroom law" requiring transgender people to use the facilities designated for their sex at birth. The state also explicitly bars localities from adopting their own antidiscrimination ordinances. To underscore the point, Lee signed a resolution earlier this year designating June "Nuclear Family Month.""The nuclear family, consisting of one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children, is God's design for familial structure and has been the bedrock of society since the creation of the world," the resolution states.
Its sponsors deliberately timed the observance to coincide with the month when Tennessee's more than 300,000 LGBTQ+ people celebrate Pride.
I can see this being important if you're a tranny, but what about the other 99% of the population?
Oh right -- normal people just don't count.
The list garnered rich Corinthian mockery.
CNBC faced a wave of online mockery Monday after releasing its annual quality-of-life rankings, which exclusively placed conservative red states in all 10 spots of the "worst places to live" -- even as official U.S. Census data shows some of those states are leading the nation in population growth.
Critics quickly took to social media to call out the outlet for what they alleged as blatant liberal bias embedded in its ranking criteria.
Counting down from the tenth-worst place to the first, CNBC ranked the bottom ten states as Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Missouri, Utah, Georgia, Louisiana, Indiana, Texas, and Tennessee.
All 10 states are Republican-led and voted for President Donald Trump in 2024.
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The metric also factors heavily in ideological policies, explicitly penalizing states for lack of protections against discrimination and restrictive abortion laws.
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"CNBC just dropped their 2026 '10 Worst States to Live In' list ... and it's pure comedy," conservative commentator Reverend Jordan Wells wrote on X.
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The corporate media outlet took direct shots at local conservative legislation across the board.
Tennessee was dinged for the state's "bathroom law" -- which requires transgender individuals to use facilities corresponding with their biological sex at birth -- as well as a law barring localities from passing their own local antidiscrimination ordinances.
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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom immediately seized on the study, taking to X to point out that every single state on the list leaned red.
"Notice something in common?" Newsom posted.
"All led by Republicans -- many suffering from California Derangement Syndrome."
However, conservatives and independent commentators noted that everyday Americans are "voting with their feet" against progressive governance.
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"Actually I noticed something else: The list is a bulls--t list that has nothing to do with quality of life for sane people," countered conservative activist Robby Starbuck, a Tennessee resident. Starbuck, known for successfully leading major corporate boycotts against over-the-top DEI policies, added, "It's all predicated on far left BS... Our states all gained population while YOUR state lost a record amount."
Media personality Patrick Bet-David cited the net migration gains of the states CNBC criticized, noting that Texas added over 67,000 residents and Tennessee added over 42,000.
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The Morning Rant: Democratic Socialists Of America Is The Same Tired Evil, But With A Pretty Name
—CBD
The current tussle within the Democrat Party between old-school octogenarians and the younger, more brash crypto-communists is nothing new. Trotting out class warfare is a tried-and-true trick that the Democrats have often used to motivate their young shock troops on the street and their older, compliant fools who do the actual voting and funding. Post-modernism gave them additional tools in the form of ethnic and sexual divisions, but the overarching principle is the same. Pit one group against another to keep the resentment and anger at a frenzied pitch.
The gentle-sounding name of the largest socialist organization in America should fool nobody, but it does. "Democratic" attached to anything means very little other than the certainty that the rights of the minority will be subsumed -- often violently -- by the desires of the majority. That is an explicit rejection of the political structure of the United States Of America.
Democratic Socialists of America
We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.
Oh no! Private profit! You know...the thing that has driven literally every advancement in human history. The other stuff is just as nonsensical, and if you have the intestinal fortitude, click on the link and look at how bereft of facts the entire website is! They love jargon and obfuscation and political buzz-words, but run screaming from reality...because reality destroys socialism!
Khanna reveals the billionaire tax is just the beginning
the tax should not stop at billionaires; it must reach centimillionaires. The tax has to reach all fortunes $50 million and up.
Here's more of their class warfare nonsense. Soon that $50,000,000 threshold will dip down into the middle class, and all of the home owners of America will be demonized, because THERE IS NEVER ENOUGH MONEY!
As many of its candidates notch electoral wins nationwide, the pre-eminent socialist political group in the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), plans to roll out an updated platform that includes eliminating the Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress.According to a source familiar with the DSA’s planning, the organization plans to roll out an update next week to its long-term vision for a U.S. policy platform. The update includes eliminating the U.S. Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive branch and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.
Additionally, the updated platform would include amnesty for all immigrants and defunding the Department of War.
This would be in addition to the DSA’s current policy platform, which calls for an "immediate end to all deportations," free migration between countries without restrictive immigration controls, and "extending full voting rights to people with criminal convictions and noncitizens."
Ah...we finally arrive at the qualitative difference between the dinosaurs of the Democrats and the next generation...they are saying the quiet part out loud. That's the only difference!
Both camps believe that they will be at the pinnacle of their new and improved political structure, and all of us will be at the bottom. That means that they will keep their huge homes and chauffeured cars and private jets... but it will all be in service to the new Soviet American exceptionalism...squalor and privation and death.
The story never changes. Socialism, or whatever they want to call it today, leads to the diminution of the human condition and the destruction of the individual...who has been the catalyst for Man's advancement out of a feudal swamp into the wealth of free markets, free speech, freedom of movement, and the freedom to act in his own best interest.
It is evil, and slapping lipstick onto it won't change that.
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The Morning Report — 7/ 14 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. And so Senator Lindsey Graham has passed at for our time what is the not very old age of 71, I say that with all sincerity as a 66-year-old. In any case whatever one thought of Graham from a political standpoint (and the fact that his sister has been tapped to replace him gets my blood simmering vis a vis our venal and corrupted system, even more infuriating in that we're only 10 days past the 250th anniversary of the American revolution that was intended to start a government that was diametrically opposed to just this kind of corruption.
Cho shared a video where she said, “Bye, gurl” to the late senator, adding “good riddance.” She also mocked the notion that he might have been a closeted gay man in the process.“From the closet to the coffin. Real seamless.”
The former is vile. The latter is precisely what one shouldn’t do to someone who wishes to keep his or her sexuality to themselves. Unless that person is a Republican, then all bets are off. Apparently.
Not to be outdone, CNN contributor Michael Ian Black did his own dancing on Graham’s grave.
Before the usual trolls and other drooling sub literate cretins point out our reactions when individuals like Jimmy Carter or Ted Kennedy died, while my reactions were for sure passionate and colorful, the meat of my look at their lives was strictly about their words and deeds and negative impact on our nation and society.
Back to Graham and reactions to his death, there's this:
The sudden and unexpected death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has sent Iran’s Islamic regime into a fever spasm of bloodlust. Ynet News reported Sunday that “Iranian state media and supporters of the regime celebrated Sunday the sudden death of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump, one of Israel’s strongest supporters in Congress and a sworn enemy of the Islamic Republic.” One of those celebrations took place on “Iranian state television,” where “a presenter reported Graham’s death with a broad smile and a visibly satisfied expression. Another host said on air: ‘This news is so sweet that I’m reading it twice.’”
And the difference between the Mulllahs and Margaret Cho and Cenk Uygur is, what exactly?!
. . . The DSA states “our goal is to put workers in charge of the government through a new democratic constitution that establishes civil, political, and democratic rights for all, is based on proportional representation in a single federal legislature. With a government by, for, and of the working class and with powerful labor unions and social movements organizing in every city and town, we hope to build a socialist society.” That means abolishing the existing United States constitution and replacing it with something else, also eliminating the Senate and establishing unenumerated “civil, political, and democratic rights for all” in unstated ways.
And so, how are we to preserve our nation, society and our lives in the face of this, short of resorting to the kind of tactics, that is violence, that they are oh so eager to visit upon us?!
Well, back in 1968 Bill Ayers didn't even flinch when he declared that 25 million of us who could not or refused to be "re-educated" would have to be liquidated once he and his ilk took power. Should America somehow return to sanity and the move to embrace Socialim/communism fade away and die Please God, perhaps we can avoid having to visit on the Left what they so eagerly seek to do to us. If not, look out.
Early medical appointments for me, so posting a bit early today. Have a good day,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- State police, the Department of Public Safety, and potentially the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are expected to be involved in investigating the shooting. Anti-ICE activists quickly organized a demonstration following the incident.
Driver Shot Dead While ‘Trying to Hit ICE Officer’ with Car.
- Victor Davis Hanson: America's allies are stronger, its rivals weaker, and the global balance has shifted.
The World Made Anew
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Daily Tech News 14 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Big Three memory maker SK Hynix may achieve just one sixth of its planned increases in capacity by 2028. (WCCFTech)
How surprising that a company massively benefiting from a shortage is slow to resolve that shortage.
- SK Hynix is also planning to invest its new round of US share sales into, uh, South Korean government bonds. (WCCFTech)
I don't think they're convinced the shortage is here to stay.
- Meta is expanding its planned Hyperion AI supercluster in Louisiana to 5GW of capacity at a cost of $50 billion. (Tom's Hardware)
Meta has had many major wins with customers signing up for its AI services, such as, uh, nobody.
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Overnight Open Thread [07/13/2026]
—CBD
The bison is far more in tune with the American spirit than the eagle or the turkey (Benjamin Franklin's laughable choice for a symbol). It's the size and weight of a compact sedan, and can run 35 miles/hour. It's cranky as f*ck; and will ignore you until it decides to toss you in the air because you are mildly irritating. And then forget about you, because you are unimportant. It has the quiet confidence that that everything else should probably get out of the way. And if you don't? It makes clear that stupidity has consequences.
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Monday Night Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
View of Saturn's rings from inside the rings,
from the Cassini probe.
This is actually an artist's conception, not a
genuine photograph. But it's pretty cool.
Walruses are out of control. This is why some call them, "The Bears of the Sea."
Foxes having fun on a slide.
Water spout coming ashore in Myrtle, SC.
Cat vs. Cobra. (Don't worry, the cobra slinks away.)
These princesses save themselves!
Hidden door to a lost dwarven kingdom discovered in Khazakistan? (Which sounds suspiciously like Khazad-Dum.)
Neat architectural illusion.
A raccoon got its head suck in a storm drain.
Firefighters saved it with the jaws of life.
Firefighters in Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania, deployed a 'jaws of life' powerful hydraulic tool after other methods failed to help the critter.Before responders arrived, a local resident tried to free the raccoon using water and dish soap.
"They tried a few of those things, but nothing ultimately worked," Rostraver Township Police Chief Scott Sokol told The Mon Valley Independent.
After removing the storm grate with the raccoon still trapped inside, the fire crew was able to cut away just enough metal to free the animal.
The raccoon was pictured scurrying back to nearby trees after its ordeal.
Rostraver Township Fire Department said they were able to "free the animal back to its natural habitat."
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John R. Lott Jr.: Numbers Don't Lie. Trump's Deportation of Foreign Invaders Is Slashing Violent Crime
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Really? You mean there's some connection between incapacitating criminals and reducing crime?
Amazing.
The United States has two primary measures of violent crime. The FBI tracks crimes reported to police. The Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates both reported and unreported crime. Researchers have known for decades that most crimes never reach the police. Victims report only about 40 percent of violent crimes and roughly 30 percent of property crimes.The media focuses almost exclusively on FBI crime data. Before 2020, FBI data and the NCVS generally moved in the same direction. During the Biden administration, however, they sharply diverged. While reported violent crime fell by about 8 percent, total felony violent crime measured by the NCVS surged 59 percent -- the largest four-year percentage increase since the survey began more than five decades ago.
Several factors explain that gap. Whether victims report crimes depends heavily on whether they believe police will catch and punish offenders. As cities reduced police staffing through budget cuts, retirements, and, in some places, "defund the police" policies, arrest rates declined. Lower arrest rates gave victims less reason to report crimes.
Some police departments also made reporting more difficult. In some jurisdictions, 911 operators asked whether the offender was still at the scene. If the answer was no -- as it almost always was -- they instructed victims to visit a police station later to file a report. Simply calling 911 does not place a crime in the FBI's statistics; an officer must complete an official report. When governments make reporting more burdensome, some victims understandably decide it isn't worth the effort.
Fortunately, many of those policies have been reversed.
Although reported crime has declined, we will not know whether total crime also fell in 2025 until the Bureau of Justice Statistics releases the next NCVS this September.
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FBI arrests surged in 2025, rising 184 percent over 2024 levels. Total FBI arrests -- a broader category that includes many joint operations with state and local agencies -- increased by 197 percent....
Across the country, President Trump's U.S. attorneys have also pursued criminals far more aggressively than their predecessors. In Washington, D.C., for example, the Biden administration's U.S. Attorney declined to prosecute 67 percent of those arrested. Under U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, that figure has fallen to just 4 percent.
A Mexican illegal deported three times just killed a six year old girl after running a stop sign.
An illegal immigrant from Mexico with multiple deportations was driving with a revoked license when he collided with a vehicle and allegedly killed a 6-year-old North Carolina girl last week, authorities said.Jaime Santiago Corona was driving a Dodge Ram pickup truck July 3 when he failed to stop at a stop sign and struck an SUV driven by 35‑year‑old Kelli Toler, who was traveling with her two children in Pitt County, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said.
Toler and her 4‑year‑old child were transported to ECU Health Greenville with serious injuries.
Toler's 6‑year‑old daughter, Calli Toler, was pronounced dead at the crash site.
An online fundraiser for the Toler family said the three were on their way to get lunch before going to a swimming pool when the collision happened.
"This monster caused a car crash that killed a 6-year-old girl and injured a mother and a 4-year-old," said Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.
Did this illegal alien deliver Cultural Enrichment in excess of the pain, misery, and death he caused? I want to see the tally. I want to see the proof that we came out ahead on this deal, Cultural-Enrichment-wise.
Very much related: A woke American woman living in Ireland decided to marry a migrant Muslim she met at a pro-Hamas rally.
Surprise! He murdered her.
The migrant boyfriend suspected of murdering a New York mom at her home in Ireland allegedly asked her for a bunch of money just a week before her death.Jamey Carney, 43, had told a pal that her beau, Ahmad Al-Saqar, sought the equivalent of around $5,700 about a week before her murder at her house in Killarney, the Irish Independent reported.
Al-Saqar is now wanted for questioning by authorities in connection with the murder of Carney, who is believed to have been beaten and then suffocated in her bed early Tuesday.
Al-Saqar, an asylum-seeker from Jordan, is feared to have fled to the Middle East in the hours after her death.
Authorities are examining the victim's phone calls and texts as well as her social-media accounts and bank statements as part of their probe.
Carney, who was originally from tony Westchester County outside of New York City, moved with her young daughter to Ireland in May 2021.
She is believed to have met Al-Saqar at a pro-Palestine rally in Killarney about 18 months ago and frequently shared pictures of the pair on social media.
He told friends that he and Carney had taken part in a religious marriage ceremony earlier this year and were wed in the Islamic faith, former roommate Husam Salha told the Irish Independent.
Al-Saqar posted a video online around that time with the words, "My bride and my princess," showing Carney wearing a ring on his TikTok.
"Al-Saqar said they had gone to the mosque and accepted to be husband and wife," Salha said.
"In Islam, when you get married, you have to let all the people know that you are husband and wife," he said.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
FaceBook's co-founder bankrolled an activist effort to drive up the price of eggs and bacon.
And he's meanwhile a major investor in Impossible Foods -- the company trying to make non-meat meatlike substance.
Dustin Moskovitz, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook and enterprise software company Asana, has talked openly about how he likes to eat meat.But in a curious twist, the lefty Democratic megadonor has poured nearly a half-billion dollars into activist campaigns that have made it harder to run animal farms and contributed to the rising cost of eggs and meat for millions of American consumers -- all while one of Moskovitz's foundations holds a nearly $89 million stake in plant-based company Impossible Foods -- meaning it could benefit if pricier meat pushes more consumers toward meat alternatives, The California Post has learned.
The money trail runs through two closely linked entities of Moskovitz's philanthropic empire: Coefficient Giving -- the nonprofit formerly known as Open Philanthropy -- and Good Ventures, the private foundation run by Moskovitz and his wife, former journalist Cari Tuna.
On paper, Coefficient Giving says its mission is simple: reduce suffering on factory farms. Since 2016, the nonprofit has handed out more than $480 million toward that cause.
But farmers and industry insiders told The Post the operation amounts to a well-funded pressure campaign, bankrolling activist groups, ballot measures, corporate pressure tactics, lawsuits and media projects that they say have helped drive up the cost of meat, eggs and pork for everyday Americans.
Hannah Thompson-Weeman, president and CEO of the Animal Agriculture Alliance, told The Post that consumers often picture animal-rights activism as a loose network of shaggy volunteers with protest signs.
That image, she said, badly understates the sophistication and funding behind the movement, which combined with inflation is the reason many grocery shoppers are suffering from post-traumatic sticker shock.
Mexico's president offers an excuse as to why she refuses to oppose the cartels. She claims it's all Biden's fault, which appeals to me, but the trouble is, she's a cartel whore. It's not just Biden's fault. She's on the cartel payroll.
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum is blaming Biden-era policies of the United States government for having helped set off the fierce turf war that followed. The turf war erupted after the split between the two main factions of the Sinaloa Cartel following the arrest of the fearsome cartel boss Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.During her morning news conferences, Sheinbaum claimed that if the Biden administration had shared information with Mexican authorities and let them carry out the arrest, the cartel would not have split, and the violence spreading through Mexico would not have happened. The comments come at a time when tensions are high with the United States over Sheinbaum's refusal to fight cartels. Her comments also come soon after the Mexican president announced that her government would be taking legal action against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in connection with the deaths of migrants in detention centers and during raids.
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The issue comes at a time when the Trump administration has been pressuring Sheinbaum to eradicate drug cartels, leading to heightened tensions between the two governments.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice delivered a heavy blow to Sheinbaum's credibility when it announced a criminal indictment against Sinaloa's Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine of his closest officials, who were the heads of the state law enforcement apparatus. As Breitbart Texas has reported, rather than help with the arrests and extraditions, Sheinbaum has used the claim of national sovereignty to refuse U.S. help in fighting cartels and has publicly defended Rocha Moya, who is from the same political party, claiming that there is no proof of wrongdoing on his part. Federal prosecutors in the United States claim that Rocha Moya worked with Los Chapitos, providing them with protection in exchange for bribes and political support.
The News Professionals at CNN did a story about Republicans demanding that Mitch McConnell update the public about his medical status. They didn't have enough Republicans for a proper "Republicans in Disarray" storyline, so they
invented one, "Jack Kimble."
You know -- Senator Jack Kimble.
During a segment concerning speculations on the health of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., CNN included a quote from a fake congressman.During the segment, host Audie Cornish said that many Senate Republicans have said they've talked to McConnell. As Cornish spoke, quotes from Republicans flashed on the screen, the Daily Wire reported. These included statements from Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota and Majority Whip John Barrasso of North Dakota.
A fourth statement was attributed to Rep. Jack Kimble, which is a parody account. No such congressman serves in the House.
"I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He's still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He's so sharp. Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed silently for awhile and had a staring contest. Just like always, he beat me. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible."" the fake congressman's statement read.
How disconnected from your "job" as "newspeople" do you have to be to not realize Jack Kimble is a made-up name? Did no one at CNN realize, "Gee, I never heard that name before and as someone paid to watch the news hour-by-hour, I probably should have heard that name before, if it were real"?
Not to be outdone, Washington Post "reporters" deliberately falsified a Trump quote to stir up a dispute between Trump, whom they hate and want to see dead, and Israel, which they hate and wish to see eradicated by Muslim terrorists.
The report portrays the United States as having to restrain an out-of-control Israel....But a key piece of evidence is, in fact, a doctored quote. The authors claim:
In March, President Donald Trump suggested publicly that Israel's assassination campaign was complicating efforts to negotiate with the regime. "You know it's a little tough," he told reporters at the time. "They've wiped out everybody. I don't want them to be killed.''Trump did, indeed, utter those words, but not together. The authors spliced together two sentences uttered by President Trump in response to two separate questions as if they were part of one cohesive statement. Worse, they omit words in between that entirely contradicted the narrative they advanced.
Here's what President Trump actually said. In response to a question as to who Steve Witkoff, the administration's special envoy, was talking to in Iran, President Trump responded:
A top -- a top person. Don't forget, we've wiped out the leadership phase one, phase two, and largely phase three. But we're dealing with a man who I believe is the most respected and the leader. You know, it's a little tough. They've wiped out -- we've wiped out everybody.In an apparent attempt to falsify the quote to suggest President Trump was talking only about Israel, The Washington Post omitted the words "we've wiped out" from the middle of the first sentence. Rather than showing American frustration with Israel, the full sentence suggests U.S. and Israeli interests were aligned.
The authors then portray the second sentence, "I don't want them to be killed," as if it was uttered immediately after the first (clipped) sentence. In fact, that remark came in response to a different question that came after another entire question and answer exchange.
After answering a question about the status of the Iranian supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, Trump was then asked whether he could say where the discussions are taking place. The president responded:
I can't. I can't, because I don't want them to be killed. OK? I don't want them to be killed.
Hudson and Nakashima effectively doctored a quote, cutting out separate parts and mashing them together to create a Frankenstein's Monster quote.
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Humiliated by His Fawning Over a Nazi Rapist, Ro Khanna Tries to Change the Subject By Trying to Force His Way Past an Israeli Checkpoint and Then Crying "Jews Are Abusing a Brown Man!" When They Stop Him (for Ninety Minutes, to Check IDs)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Ro Khanna's absurd idea that he can be president took a big hit when his Rapist Wingman Graham Platner was forced to withdraw.
So he's begging for attention from the Nazi left:
Bonchie @bonchieredstateRo Khanna backed a Nazi tattooed rapist after he was credibly accused of domestic abuse.
To distract from that, he ran to Israel to enter a government restricted area and stage a PR stunt.
If you're falling for this, you're an idiot. And apparently, lots of idiots exist.
He admits that he knew he was trying to force his way past the checkpoint of a "restricted military area" -- but played the Don't You Know Who I Am? card anyway.
Dan The Zionist! @DanTheZionistJul 12
Ro Khanna's driver intentionally triggered a Security First Response Team.
Israeli Gedaliah Blum explains the tricks that Ro Khanna used to stage a performance.
Ro Khanna was traveling in Judea and Samaria, which are also known as the West Bank. The Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria have experienced many terrorist attacks. So, there are First Response Teams of community guards who monitor for suspicious activity. These teams are governed by laws and work with safety measures, and they coordinate with the Israeli army.
Shabbat is Saturday. On Shabbat, people living in Jewish communities do not drive. On Shabbat, Ro Khanna's team drove off the road, which was already very suspicious. The strange activity of Ro Khanna's vehicle triggered the First Response Team. So, the team checked the vehicles.
Ro Khanna did not tell anyone he was going to be in the area. He was not traveling in a way that identified him as a congressman, he was not in a government marked vehicle. The First Responder Team checked for his identity. Specifically, because Ro Khanna did not tell anyone he would be in the area, it took about ninety minutes to confirm his identity with the Israeli army.
After he was safely identified, he was allowed to continue on his way. Afterwards, Ro Khanna described this security check as being held hostage by wild settlers, which is total nonsense.
Ro Khanna is a liar.
His only defense of his actions is that other Congressmen have gotten into that area before.
Yes, this Fox newsreader points out -- after first clearing it with the government of Israel, which Ro Khanna didn't do, because he wanted a staged confrontation because his campaign for president is failing ludicrously and he wants to court the leftwing Nazi vote.
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More Illegal Aliens Discovered Voting Illegally in US Elections
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Evidence mounts of noncitizens reaching voter rolls, casting ballots as DOJ speeds crackdownTrump DOJ has secured about two dozen noncitizen voting arrests, prosecutions or convictions in the last few months, with about another 90 more cases under investigation.
A small town Kansas mayor born in Mexico. A Filipino senior citizen living in Hawaii. Two Pakistani men residing in New Jersey. An Aussie in Louisiana. And a Chinese student studying at the University of Michigan. They all have one thing in common.
Each has been charged in the last year with illegally voting in U.S. federal elections as foreigners, part of a sudden wave of prosecutions led by the Trump Justice Department for a crime that used to be among the rarest in the federal court system.
The Trump Justice Department has secured about two dozen non-citizens voting arrests, prosecutions or convictions in the last few months alone, with about another 90 more cases under investigation, officials told Just the News. And all 50 states were sent notices this month that election officials can and will be prosecuted too if they allow non-citizens to vote.
"It isn't just bad policy to let non-citizens vote in federal elections, it's a crime. And this Department of Justice will intend to prosecute that crime if these election officials, having been informed that they are non-citizens on the voter rolls, knowingly allow those people to vote, enable their enrollment on the voter rolls, are passive in the face of this knowledge, etc. This is not some idle threat," Assistant Attorney General for Ciril Rights Harmeet Dhillon told the Just the News, No Noise television show.
DOJ officials have found three major problems in policing states' voter rolls ahead of the 2026 election: hundreds of thousands of dead people still eligible to vote, tens of thousands of illegal aliens on the rolls and scores of foreigners having gone beyond registering to, in fact, vote in a federal election, which is illegal.
Dhillon, the top election cop inside the DOJ, believes the numbers of foreigners illicitly voting in elections is probably higher but has been frustrated that U.S. Attorney offices across the country haven't made illegal voting a larger priority until just recently.
"We are trying to empty an ocean with a teaspoon because there isn't a culture of U.S. attorneys going after these," she explained.
That's changing with the sudden explosion of cases.
The left is shrieking (as usual) about the possibility that state election officials who turn a blind eye to illegal alien voting might be arrested themselves.
This is PBS so expect bias.
DOJ threatens to arrest state election officials if noncitizens voteThe Department of Justice is threatening to arrest more than a dozen state election officials if a single vote is cast in their states by a noncitizen. The threat was part of a letter giving election officials five days to detail how they will comply with laws on noncitizens voting. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Jessica Huseman of Votebeat, who obtained the letter.
Amna Nawaz:
The Department of Justice is threatening top election officials in more than a dozen states with arrest if even a single vote is cast in their states by a noncitizen. The threats detailed in a letter stating it's illegal for noncitizens to vote and giving elections officials five days to detail how they will comply with federal law.
It's worth noting that noncitizens voting, as well as election fraud in general, is exceedingly rare in this country, with just a handful of reported cases, even in databases kept by conservative legal groups. The letter was obtained by Votebeat.
White supremacist groups are also very, very rare but the left seems keenly interested in stopping them.
Jessica Huseman, Editorial Director, Votebeat:All of the states got the letter, which that was not initially obvious when this was reported for the first time.
We heard from several states all at once that had gotten it. There were several states that couldn't actually find the letter because the Trump administration sent it to things like info@secretaryofstate.gov for some of these Web sites. So they had to go hunt it down.
But, yes, all 50 states have gotten them. And the letter essentially reminds election administrators that noncitizen voting is illegal and says that there are criminal penalties associated with knowingly allowing a noncitizen to vote.
Of course, that is not new information to election officials. And all of the election officials that I spoke to about this yesterday didn't seem particularly concerned.
Maybe they should be.
