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THE MORNING RANT: Google and Outlook’s Search Functionality, Another Technology that Apparently Doesn’t Exist Any More
—Buck Throckmorton
There’s a meme about technical capabilities that we once had, such as landing humans on the moon, that are unreproducible in modern times. It always ends with a somber, “That technology doesn’t exist any more.”
Fifteen years ago I never would have believed that the ability to search for work emails would be lost to progress, but that has happened. If you use Outlook at work, then you know what I’m talking about.
Let’s say I’m looking for an email between me and Acme Oil Company regarding a Power of Attorney. There was a time when I could click on the folder where I move emails involving Acme Oil, and then simply search that folder for “power of attorney.” I would then be presented all emails in that folder with the three-word sequence “power of attorney,” in sequential order, starting with most recent email.
For some inexplicable reason, Microsoft decided to improveenshittify Outlook such that the search feature has become almost completely useless. Now if I search for “power of attorney” in the Acme Oil file to find an email from last month, it will provide me a long list of emails, but probably not the one I’m looking for. It will also present me emails from other clients that are not even part of my search containing the words “power of attorney.” It will also provide me every email that ever contained the words “power,” “attorney,” and most importantly, the word “of.” Comically, it also prominently displays “Top Results,” which tend to be heirloom emails from a long time ago, and unrelated to my current search.
It’s not just Microsoft that has destroyed its search capabilities. Google has also sabotaged its product for some reason, perhaps political, or maybe to entice more clicks. Whatever the reason, Google now seems determined to not let you find what you are searching for, or at a minimum, they are now making it a quest.
Someone should invent a version of Outlook that can search for emails and find them.
— Habeas Corpus Linguistics (@HabCorpLinguist) July 10, 2026
Responses to this tweet are pretty funny. A few are below the fold, along with a further exposition on Google.
Never forget that the Artemis II crew that flew by the moon last April had to call Tech Support back on Earth, because both of their Outlook versions were inoperable.
Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth
And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working
There were stories when I was younger that American auto manufacturers intentionally degraded the quality of their vehicles in the 1970s. The alleged reason was the hope that planned obsolescence would increase the sales frequency of buyers. While this is likely an apocryphal story, the American automakers lost their dominant market share because they seemed indifferent to quality while others started focusing on quality.
Something similar is happening with Google. It came to dominate online search by having the far superior product. Back in the day it could find something I was looking for better than any other search engine. In fact, Google seemed to know intuitively what I was seeking even if my query was poorly worded. But now, Google has degraded its product so badly that it frequently refuses to produce the result of an easy search. As Jesse Singal notes below, you can give it direct quotes from a piece you are searching for, but Google will often still refuse to produce the article (which Grok quickly retrieves.)
Sabotaging your own product, as Google and Outlook have appeared to do, is an amazing business strategy to grow a business.
The degradation of basic Google Search is *really* alarming. I can't think of any web tool I've been using longer -- three decades at this point? You can paste in a unique string of text, in quotes, and it will sometimes still fail to find what you're looking for.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) torched Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in an impromptu interview with CNN’s Manu Raju, and boy, Sanders didn't take it well. The blowup is over Michigan's Senate primary, where Democrat voters look poised to hand their nomination to Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Socialist who has spent months running to the left of nearly everyone else in the race. His chief rival, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), is clearly the more electable option, but El-Sayed looks like he’s going to win. A recent poll shows Republican Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) beating El-Sayed by 10 points in a general election matchup. Swap in Stevens against Rogers, and the race is a dead heat, within the margin of error. Sanders, of course, has thrown his weight behind El-Sayed, and Fetterman thinks that is a mistake. In fact, he said so bluntly to Raju in a rather scathing attack on Sanders. He brought up Sanders' lack of regret for propping up Graham Platner, even after he was accused of rape and abuse by multiple ex-girlfriends, who also drew fire for comments many read as disparaging a fallen American hero.
Well, sadly this is Michigan, no longer the land of Henry Ford but thanks to places like Dearbornistan and Hamastramck well on its way to transmogrification into an Islamic shitole.
His argument was straightforward: the Democrat Party has drifted so far from ordinary voters that its own candidates no longer resemble what the country is asking for.
"Because the American people are not being ambiguous at all about what they want," Ford said. "They want lower prices; they want not-forever wars. They want their kids to have better futures and an opportunity to achieve the American dream.", and even one of their own on Fox News's The Five isn't pretending otherwise. On Thursday, Harold Ford Jr., who is far and away smarter than Jessica Tarlov, ripped into his party for propping up socialist candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan.
Host Erin Burnett said, “So, let me ask you about this poll that just came in here while we were talking in the past few minutes from Fox, Larry. The Republican Senate candidate, Ken Paxton, is now trailing the Democrat, James Talarico, in Texas. Ok, Texas. This is the first public poll where either candidate has hit the 50% mark. Ok. It’s Texas. It’s an incredible thing to see this. It’s also the end of July. Where do you see that race going?”
Sabato said, “I’ve been around a long time. And since 1994, I’ve gotten call after call virtually every day from Texans in politics on the Democratic side, saying, ‘This is the year. We’re finally gonna do it.’ But you know what? I’m starting to believe it’s actually possible this year, not just because James Talarico is a great candidate, which he is, but Paxton is so awful. And I’m sorry to use that word. But, you know, we used to have a word, a flaunter, meaning he’s a sinner who flaunts the sin. And that pretty much has been the way Paxton has conducted his public career. A lot of these donors won’t touch him. Notice, he’s not doing well at all raising money. It’s because they have family and friends and businesses to protect, and they really don’t want to identify themselves publicly with a candidate who has Paxton’s record.”
So okay, taken together Harold Ford although a decent fellow, isn't exactly a rock-ribbed conservative and Larry Sabato is a pollster who's been around the block for a long time and his record of prognostication let alone on the temperament of the electorate are not exactly stellar or even reliable unless I'm missing something.
But seriously, does this abject freak have a shot at taking a senate seat in Texas, regardless of Paxton's appeal or lack thereof? I mean Texas rejected Abortion Barbie and she makes Talarico look like Chairman Mao in comparison, or at least from my perspective as an ex-New York Yid living in the sticks of southern Wisconsin.
So if Socialism is such a big winner why are the Democrats seemingly all freaked out about it as several links in the Politics section seem to be driving at? The contradictions about this are maddening.
What I guess I'm driving at beyond these individual races is what does all this say about the nation as a whole and the trajectory we're on?
As the song goes . . . "Will our story shine like a light, or end in the dark?!!!!"
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
This lawsuit adds to the mounting controversies surrounding Benson, who has previously faced accusations of election misconduct and racial discrimination during her tenure as Michigan’s Secretary of State. In 2024, she attempted to bar President Donald J. Trump from appearing on Michigan ballots, in a move that was eventually quashed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Cox’s legal action raises questions about her knowledge of the SPLC’s activities and whether her role on the board conflicts with her public duties as a state official. Dem Secretary of State Served for Allegedly Funding Extremists at SPLC.
Bradley Green’s latest book, ‘What is Critical Theory,’ offers valuable insight into how Marxism threatens to undermine the family and subvert Christian morality. How Critical Theory Redefines Good As Evil
This is the first time that the court has been activated, having been dormant since its creation in 1996. The outcome of the case could determine whether the court becomes a regular device in deportation operations, particularly when dealing with foreign-born extremists who are permanent residents. The activation of the court means that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts must form a panel to assess Haji Zada’s case. Against the backdrop of author Salman Rushdie’s would-be assassin being found guilty of attempting to carry out a fatwa and supporting Hezbollah in federal court, this move represents a broader pivot towards tackling Islamic terrorism on U.S. soil. Trump Activates Dormant ‘Alien Terrorist Removal Court’ to Deport ISIS Supporter.
Lozano-Flores’s arrest underscores the ongoing threat to public safety posed by the huge number of illegal immigrants at large in the United States. It also highlights the importance of cooperation between local and federal authorities, with the Mexican being unlikely to be released by state authorities instead of handed over to ICE under sanctuary-style laws. Mexican Illegal Charged With Kidnapping and Sexual Assault of Minor Teen in Public Park.
The deal was reportedly arranged through Hong Kong-based Zhongqing Baoshang International Investment, with initial shipments expected to depart from Urumqi in western China and transit through Pakistan before reaching Iran. However, Pakistan has denied any involvement, with the country’s military calling reports linking it to the transfer “absolutely concocted and false.” China also rejected the claims, with a Foreign Ministry spokesman describing the reports as “completely groundless” and claiming that Beijing has sought to promote peace and end the conflict. REPORT: Iran Secures Hundreds of Chinese Missiles to Use Against U.S.
The principal weakness of Western policy has been not an excess of diplomacy or pressure, but a misunderstanding of what keeps the Islamic Republic in power. The Strategic Blind Spot
“The president has been very clear that he wants a deal done sooner rather than later. But if the Iranians are going to keep attacking ships, attacking US bases, attacking Gulf allies, then there will be a price to pay for that,” the US official said. While the US waits for Iran to show its willingness to stand down militarily, talks continue on both sides via technical teams and international mediators. Cease-fire Trump wants must begin with Iran — and there will be ‘price to pay’ for any attacks, US official warns
The Multicultural Business Coalition’s board voted this week to pursue legal action against the city over Mamdani’s proposal to open five taxpayer-funded grocery stores that would sell food at prices up to 30% below traditional retailers, according to the New York Post, which first reported the vote Tuesday. Immigrant Business Owners Prepare Lawsuit Against Mamdani Over City-Run Grocery Stores
Victor Davis Hanson: What happened to the nation’s most richly naturally endowed, and once best-governed, state? The left took total control — after millions of the embattled middle class fled. Millions more impoverished immigrants, legal and illegal, took their place. Left-wing Silicon Valley spawned some of the wealthiest elite liberal enclaves in the world. How California’s self-sabotage by the left made it a national disgrace
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Matar faces a maximum of life in prison. He will be sentenced on November 3. The case underscores the enduring influence of Islamic fatwas issued decades ago, as well as the role of Iran-backed terror groups like Hezbollah in enabling global terrorism. This story underscores the longstanding tension between freedom of speech and Islam in the West. Salman Rushdie Attacker Found Guilty of Iran-Linked Islamic Terrorism.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Carr has flatly denied that characterization. “I don’t view the FCC as the speech police,” he told Politico this week for an episode of the podcast “The Conversation.” The chairman has said the license review grew out of an ongoing investigation into ABC’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies, not a reaction to the network’s news coverage. FCC Chair Carr Defends License Review as ABC Cries Censorship
X had filed a lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) in 2024, accusing the organization of orchestrating what it described as a systematic illegal boycott of the platform. The lawsuit came after X experienced a significant decline in advertising revenue following Musk’s acquisition of the social network for $44 billion in 2022. Elon Musk’s X Settles Lawsuit with Advertisers over Ads Boycott
The relationship could carry consequences for how Jackson reports his finances. Under Senate rules, candidates and members must file detailed disclosures covering their own income, assets, and liabilities, along with those of a spouse. Because Jackson and Pelletier never wed, it is not clear whether his disclosures would have to account for her finances the way Collins’ filings account for her husband. Report: Maine Democrat Troy Jackson, Longtime Partner Are Second Cousins with 2 Children(just like Bro-Fo or Eleanor and Franklin?! - jjs)
POLITICS
I’m starting to believe it’s actually possible this year, not just because James Talarico is a great candidate, which he is, but Paxton is so awful. And I’m sorry to use that word. But, you know, we used to have a word, a flaunter, meaning he’s a sinner who flaunts the sin. And that pretty much has been the way Paxton has conducted his public career Larry Sabato: Talarico Could Actually Flip Senate Seat in Texas
Democrats have a socialism problem, and even one of their own on Fox News's The Five isn't pretending otherwise. On Thursday, Harold Ford Jr., who is far and away smarter than Jessica Tarlov, ripped into his party for propping up socialist candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan. This Liberal Says Democrats Will ‘Deserve to Lose’ in November. Here's Why.
This is a big problem for an increasingly radicalized Democrat Party that continues to move further and further to the left and far out of mainstream thinking on issues like abolishing prisons, abolishing the U.S. Senate, sexualizing and queering little kids, defunding the police, open borders, socialized medicine, annihilating Israel, and outright property confiscation. One-Third of Democrats Identify as Democrat Socialists
“The Real Food Show” premiered July 30 on YouTube and the HHS website, offering recipes built around whole, minimally processed ingredients such as protein, full-fat dairy, fruits, vegetables and whole grains, the standards set out in the 2026 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The show promises meals priced under $5 per serving whenever possible, along with simple techniques meant to save families time and money. RFK Jr. Debuts Cooking Show to Prove Healthy Eating Beats Fast Food on Cost
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You'd be entirely justified in asking Wut? at this point, but this is a great technology landing at precisely the wrong time.
MRDIMMs are registered memory taken to the next level. Since the memory modules have interface chips - the registers - on them, you can have multiple banks of memory on each module, allowing 256GB DIMMs instead of just 64GB.
What the M part stands for is multiplexed, meaning that when you access the memory it interleaves data from two banks at once, so that transfers are twice as fast.
The new multiplexers run at 16GHz.
Which means you get user upgradable high-capacity memory modules that run at the sort of speed normally associated with the memory on video cards.
Which would be amazing and allow for some seriously powerful integrated graphics except that memory is so expensive right now that there is absolutely no point to it.
We've touched on this before. Computers have separate areas in memory reserved for instructions and data respectively, with strict controls over which is which. When those controls break down, you get a common class of security vulnerabilities - buffer overflows and the like.
LLMs don't have that. Worse, they pass benchmarks running tests for that problem with flying colours - typically blocking 100% of attacks - but when faced with a real human attacker they fail 100% of the time.
Supposedly they are already in production but have been hidden away because nobody knows how to price them.
Also, I bought an RX 6400 today. The least powerful recent AMD graphics card and by a good margin, but also the least power hungry, and physically the smallest. It's not much slower than the RX 580 (I have a couple of those) but is a tiny low profile card that only uses 50W of power.
Also a lot cheaper and smaller than, say, an RTX 3050, while not being that much slower. Not something you'd buy unless you need to fit the card in a low-profile slot, but the Hyte / Hololive limited edition cases (of which I now have five) only allow for a single full-height card, so I do.
From the "Wait - she wasn't already dead??" files --
It is with profound sorrow that we bid farewell to Jeanne Gibson, our beloved Rosie the Riveter, has passed away today, July 29, 2026, at the remarkable age of 100. With her passing, we don't simply mourn the loss of a beloved friend, we honor the life of an American hero whose courage, dedication, and unwavering spirit helped shape history, and will continue to inspire generations to come.
At just 18 years old, Jeanne left her home in Minnesota in the summer of 1944 and answered her nation's call, becoming a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle. With determination and grit, she helped build destroyers that strengthened the Allied war effort during World War II. She later continued her service with the Army Transportation Corps in Juneau, Alaska, embodying the resilience and patriotism of the Greatest Generation.
A South Florida couple who has opened their home to dozens of children is being recognized by the Savannah Bananas through the team's Bananas Foster initiative.
John and Tammy McGuire were honored during a recent Florida game for their commitment to foster care and adoption, causes that have long been part of their family history.
"My grandmother and grandfather ran an orphanage, and John's mother adopted a relative placement," Tammy McGuire said.
The McGuires had children of their own when they decided to become foster parents, believing they could make a difference in the lives of children in need. Over the years, 61 children have stayed in their home.
Bravo to the McGuires for making a difference for all of those children!
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Not all heroes wear capes
Apparently if you are messing with Flock cameras, You can just tell the cops you are doing an update.
Federal regulators are clearing the way for robotaxis to operate without manual controls like steering wheels or eventually even brake pedals as the rules start to catch up to the evolving technology.
Amazon’s fully autonomous Zoox vehicles got approval Thursday to begin charging customers for rides in the specially designed cars that feature four inward-facing seats once they secure state and local approval. Zoox has already been offering free rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco since last year. At least a couple people were waiting at most stops Thursday afternoon for rides up and down the Vegas strip aboard one of the distinctive boxy-shaped vehicles.
“It’s kind of scary at first, but when I just got used to it, it’s really cool and chilling. I really liked the music and how you can adjust the temperature,” Chloe Huu from Ann Arbor, Michigan, said after taking a ride in a Zoox Thursday. But the projected wait time for the ride kept changing, which made it hard to plan.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also proposed a rule last month to allow robotaxis to operate without brake pedals, but that proposal is still pending. Administrator Jonathan Morrison said his agency wants to update the regulations to fit these fully autonomous vehicles while still acting as the “cop on the beat to make sure that this is being done right.”
Long article. Check out the whole thing.
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Although I can’t quote the exact verse, I’m pretty sure it says in the Bible that if you make a Spaghetti-O’s gelatin dish you go straight to hell. pic.twitter.com/sGKcJxlLYU
U.S. company Satyress is developing threehalves, a centaur-style robot designed for dangerous environments such as wildfires, rubble searches, toxic areas and confined spaces. The system combines a humanoid upper body with a quadruped mobility platform. #USA#Robotics#UGV#AIpic.twitter.com/ViPprQ1lrZ
Fauci's journal: the people criticizing my performance are only doing so because they want to "destroy democracy."
You see, he's not just Science, he's also Democracy.
Attacks on Anthony Fauci were part of a right-wing plot to "destroy democracy," former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Anthony Fauci mused in his personal diary released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
When Fauci was not marveling over his rise to global fame or desperately reaching out to former President Barack Obama for PR help as his reputation sank to new depths, Fauci convinced himself that attacks against him were all part of an elaborate plot of the political right to "destroy democracy."
In an October 3, 2021 entry, Fauci wrote that the country "is headed to or might already be in a constitutional crisis with the far right clearly indicating that they're going to try and disrupt elections and essentially destroy the democracy."
"The attacks on me I believe are all a tangential part of that process," Fauci surmised, flattering himself in the process.
"I speak of the big lie of which I unfortunately have been drawn into being a target of the far right because I represent something that is antithetical to them, namely, the truth," he continued.
Prosecutors release more admissions by Tyler Robinson that he murdered Charlie Kirk, provoking Candace Owens to ask the question, when did the Jews get to Tyler Robinson?
The left claims "Not all Muslims are terrorists." But the left's pussyfooting around calling out terrorism, for fear of offending their Muslim supporters, suggests the left does in fact believe that all Muslims are terrorists. Or at least, they support terrorism.
Not every Muslim is an Islamist, but every Islamist is a Muslim. The vast majority of ordinary British Muslims want nothing to do with their terrorist-supporting co-religionists; in many cases it is the tyranny and cruelty of Islamism that forced them to seek a new life here in the first place.
And yet despite this clear distinction, despite the unambiguous motivations of a religiously inspired psychopath who thought he was doing God's will by attacking a Pride march, there are few politicians -- especially Labour ones -- with the courage to call it what it is.
The X platform is awash with the usual boilerplate, box-ticking condolences you get on such (frequent) occasions. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, posted: "London stands in solidarity with Berlin's LGBTQ+ community. This is why Pride matters. Those who seek to spread hatred and division will never win."
Those who seek to spread hatred and division? Anyone particular in mind, Lord Khan? How odd that the mayor of a city that has suffered more than its fair share of Islamist atrocities can't bring himself to name the poisonous ideology that provokes such inhuman acts.
Sadly, there were plenty of others who followed the same craven pattern. Catherine West MP predicted that "hope will triumph over hate". But whose hate? Simon Lightwood MP's thoughts were with "everyone affected, their loved ones and the wider LGBT+ community". Everyone affected by what, though? Why did the attack even take place? Any thoughts. Simon?
Ludicrously, Kate Osborne, Labour MP for Jarrow, actually compared the Islamist attack in Berlin to the rise of Reform UK, which would be funny were the implications not so chilling.
I fear the answer to Labour's reticence to call a spade a spade lies purely in electoral considerations. While Andy Burnham's second coming has reassured his party that Reform can be beaten back and its electoral appeal blunted, there remains the headache over what to do about the haemorrhaging of votes to the party's Left, specifically to the Greens. Zack Polanski's party has exploited Muslim anger at Israel's response to the Hamas attacks of October 2023 and has effectively painted Labour as a supporter of Israel and as an apologist for events in Gaza.
Having already lost four previously safe Labour seats to "Gaza independents" at the 2024 election, and with similarly motivated independents gearing up to fight vulnerable Labour-held seats at the next election, Labour is known to be extremely nervous about further offending or alienating Muslim voters. And while most Muslims reject the tenets of Islamism, hyper-sensitive, politically-correct Labour MPs can't help but notice that "Islamist" looks awfully similar to "Islam". Stupid as that sounds, it might explain the cowardice of so many MPs in refusing to name the real cause of so many terrorist acts in recent years.
A DHS official put out a list of the worst activist judges. The media shrieked that he was endangering the lives of judges by naming them.
But the media attacks people they don't like all the time. Are they confessing they are putting their enemies' lives in danger -- and either don't care or affirmatively desire that outcome?
A high-ranking Trump Department of Homeland Security official called out the "liberal media" for what he referred to as the "absolute absurdity" of its response to his series criticizing activist judges.
James Percival, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, posted a series on X last week, "Worst of the Worst, District Judge Edition."
In his posts, Percival pointed to the risks that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents face while enforcing the law, saying some judges are working to "sabotage" those operations and put officers "at risk."
After his posts, Percival said DHS was contacted by a Chicago Sun-Times reporter about whether "a social media post like this risk[s] additional threats" in the context of "ongoing threats to federal judges."
In response, Percival blasted the outlet in an X post in which he told followers, "Witness the absolute absurdity of the liberal media response to my new series, Worst of the Worst, District Judges."
Percival emphasized that "legitimate fact based critiques of judges and their rulings is fair game in a free society." He also noted that "the media has no issue with it if the judge is conservative."
Notably, conservative judges, including Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, have been the target of intense criticism from the left and, in some cases, violence. In 2022, Kavanaugh was the target of an assassination plot after an armed California man traveled to his home with a pistol, ammunition, zip ties, pepper spray, duct tape and burglary tools. Further, Barrett testified in a recent congressional hearing that she has had to wear a bulletproof vest in response to threats.
What is gain-of-function research? Put simply, it includes any efforts by scientists to make a virus or other pathogen more deadly or more transmissable, to better understand ways said virus could mutate to become more dangerous. Doing so, proponents say, helps better inform efforts to develop vaccines and other defenses in the future. But even proponents admit that doing so carries with it serious risks. A virus made more dangerous to study it is still a more dangerous virus; its exposure to humans no less a threat because it was turbocharged for "good" reasons; its likelihood of escaping containment not mitigated by "good" intentions.
In May 2025, President Trump decided such research was too risky, pausing it in the U.S., and making funding of foreign gain-of-function research illegal. Such research had previously been paused under President Obama as part of a new risk assessment in 2014 but resumed in 2017. Dr. Fauci has long been a vocal advocate of gain-of-function research, despite these considerable risks.
Given short shrift in the melee around the facts (by the media, to be clear, not by Sen. Paul and his team) is that this alleged funding of virus-enhancing research wasn't just given to a lab in any nation, but to one run by the Chinese Communist Party, our chief geopolitical nemesis, and by any accounts a malignant communist regime opposed to truth and transparency of any kind. Why would we trust them with anything, none the less to conduct above-board research into a deadly pathogen, particularly when they had displayed a long history of safety lapses?
As I argued on The Hill's Rising podcast with Emily Jashinsky and Ryan Grim back in 2021, Fauci was arguing semantics about what a new rule he himself inserted into funding guidelines said about what constituted gain-of-function research. That sleight-of-hand covered for what was really going on: the U.S. government was sending taxpayer dollars to research, in Wuhan, to make bat-based coronaviruses more transmissible and more deadly. This was happening at a lab doing cutting-edge research on these types of viruses and which had a reputation for flouting biosafety regulations -- a lab just a couple miles from where newly transmissible and deadlier cases of bat-based coronaviruses first appeared.
It should be the story of the century. Could America's top doctor have partnered with the Chinese Communist Party to help to unleash a global pandemic that killed millions? Why, ahead of said doctor's public testimony aren't outlets scrambling to understand what happened, given all this directional evidence?
I think it's because of the legacy media's love affair with Dr. Fauci as America's supposed COVID-savior.
I worry we're already forgetting just how enamored the legacy press -- the institution constitutionally responsible for holding government to account -- was with Dr. Fauci, certainly before but particularly in the early days of COVID.
To the press, Fauci was a hero, battling dangerous forces who refused to take COVID as seriously as The Science did.
Do you remember how preposterous these headlines were?
BREAKING: The identity of the man that berated the two teenage female Sophie Cunningham supporters at the Seattle Storm vs Indiana Fever game is Marco Esquivel.
Esquivel is a Nordstrom corporate employee in Seattle.
High-T Heterosexual and super-Christian James Talarico: I've learned as much about "my religion" from Islam as from the actual Bible.
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James Talarico — who said he "hates Christianity" — praised Islam for inspiring his religious beliefs:
"I’ve learned as much about my faith from Salman’s tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors..." pic.twitter.com/2UeksY9Hko
On the campaign trail, Democrat candidate James Talarico often describes his faith as "biblical Christianity." But the Senate hopeful once credited Islamic mystics with shaping his faith just as much as Christian writers, audio unearthed by The Daily Wire reveals.
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Talarico asserted that his faith was rooted in "biblical Christianity." During an appearance on The State of Belief podcast in April 2024 alongside Muslim state Rep. Salman Bhojani, Talarico praised Islam for shaping his religious beliefs. Those comments could come into play as debate heats up in Texas about Islam's growing presence in the state.
"I know personally that I've learned as much about my faith from Salman's tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers," he said. "This kind of interfaith dialogue, it doesn't water down your tradition, in fact it strengthens it, it brings out new flavors and new colors."
Trump Activates Never-Before-Used Court To Deport Terrorists
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The court had been created in 1996 to quickly deport terrorist-sympathizing aliens. I imagine it was created in response to the first bombing of the World Trade Center by Muslim savages.
But it was just some empty posturing. It was never actually used.
The Trump administration has activated a previously unused deportation court designed for the removal of "alien terrorists" to remove an Afghan woman who allegedly knew of her son's plans to support the Islamic state.
Haji Zada's son and son-in-law previously pleaded guilty to their plans to carry out a terrorist attack on Election Day in 2024, according to Politico. The administration has sought to deport her, alleging that she knew of her family's plans and was responsible for radicalizing them.
The United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court held its first hearing in its history on Thursday, under the oversight of Judge Joan Ericksen. The court had never taken a case before Thursday.
"Congress created the Alien Terrorist Removal Court three decades ago to remove from the United States alien terrorists who never should have been here in the first place," acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.
"The allegations in this case show the matriarch of an ISIS-sympathizing family aiding in a plot to launch a mass casualty attack on American voters on Election Day. The Department's application in this court makes clear that terrorists have no place in the United States of America," he added.
Related: The Hamas-supporting, Muslim-funded fake "Jewish" organization J Street is protesting the injustice of deporting a terrorism-supporting "student" who repeatedly lied in his green card application, which by the way is against the law and voids the green card, because otherwise, why even have an application process? Why bother asking questions if the applicant is allowed to lie?
It's very important to this fake "Jewish" organization to keep Muslim terrorists here in the US where they can do the most damage against The Great Satan.
This letter is demented for obvious reasons; J Street doesn't speak for the Jewish community or faith. But it also skips the fact that the Torah has expectations of "strangers." One of them is respecting the host's laws and society. Mahdawi wants to destroy our society. https://t.co/9kx1SeMXkf
UPDATE: Man shot by Fairfax Cops after grabbing their gun, chasing wife with knife is illegal alien who Fairfax DA Steve Descano freed after he suffocated, assaulted, and abducted someone in April 2026.
Far-left CNN reports that "about a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults identify as democratic socialists," per the latest polling.
This is a big problem for an increasingly radicalized Democrat Party that continues to move further and further to the left and far out of mainstream thinking on issues like abolishing prisons, abolishing the U.S. Senate, sexualizing and queering little kids, defunding the police, open borders, socialized medicine, annihilating Israel, and outright property confiscation.
The polling shows that 59 percent of these socialists are under age 45 and -- surprise, surprise -- predominantly white (57 percent). They are also less likely to have a college degree or make over $100,000 per year.
What should truly trouble the Democrat Party is how motivated these loons are to vote -- 66 percent are "extremely motivated to vote this year," compared to just 57 percent of non-socialist Democrats.
When these extremists win primaries, especially in purple states, that gives Republicans a real chance to prevail.
A Washington Post-Ipsos poll shows 3 in 4 Democrats support a democratic socialist for president, but less than half of Americans agree. The Democratic Socialists of America has grown, yet Americans remain divided on its meaning. Age and education influence support, with younger, educated individuals more open to democratic socialist candidates.
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Three in 4 Democrats say they would be open to supporting a democratic socialist for president, but less than half of all Americans say they would vote for such a candidate, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.
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Republicans and right-wing influencers are increasingly invoking "communism," often to criticize democratic socialists and the Democratic Party broadly, according to a Washington Post analysis. Americans split on this comparison in the Post-Ipsos poll, with 30 percent saying democratic socialism is similar to communism while 32 percent say it is different and 36 percent saying they are not sure.
Democratic socialism has clearly caught on with many Democrats, fueling questions about how that energy will affect upcoming elections, including the 2028 presidential race. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), a DSA member, is viewed as a potential presidential candidate.
The Post-Ipsos poll indicates that 55 percent of Americans would not consider voting for a democratic socialist for president, while 39 percent would consider supporting one and 6 percent having no opinion. A majority of self-described independents, 54 percent, would also rule out a democratic socialist candidate.
A much smaller segment of Americans -- 15 percent -- say they like leaders who identify as democratic socialists, compared with 36 percent who dislike them and nearly half saying they neither like nor dislike democratic socialists, the poll shows.
About one-third of Democrats say they like democratic socialist candidates and 10 percent dislike them, but most have neither positive nor negative views of them. Republicans are more negative, with 7 in 10 disliking democratic socialists.
And Russia is meanwhile sinking Ukranian ships delivering grain to foreign buyers. So, fair is fair.
Ukraine struck an Iranian cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea, claiming it was transporting drone and missile components to Russia, marking the first direct military link between the wars in Ukraine and Iran.
Well... it is also reported that Russia is providing Iran with the targeting data it uses to hit our bases with missiles, including the deadly attack on a base in Jordan a couple of weeks ago.
Iran vowed retaliation, accusing Kyiv of violating international law, while Ukraine defended the strike as part of its campaign to disrupt Russia's military supply chains and its partnership with Tehran.
The attack carries broader geopolitical implications, potentially deepening coordination between Russia and Iran while signaling closer strategic alignment between Ukraine and the U.S. amid the expanding regional conflict.
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While details of the July 25 incident are murky, Ukraine's intelligence agency the SBU said its drones hit an oil platform in the Caspian Sea along with a Russian missile boat and "cargo ships that are under international sanctions."
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday announced that Ukrainian forces had achieved "very good results" in long-range strikes in the Caspian Sea, including against vessels used to transport military cargo linked to Iran.
Ukraine says it has struck several vessels in the Caspian Sea used to transport Russian military cargo to Iran. Reports suggest the cargo ships Port Olya 2 and Begey were hit. Meanwhile, Iranian regime-affiliated channels are threatening ballistic missile strikes on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/OBFk2SdH3H
As you probably know, Ukraine has been sinking Russian military and sanctioned cargo ships throughout the Black Sea, despite having no navy. They use drones, both flying and water-borne.
They're intensifying the war against the Russian economy and military supply lines, blowing up oil refineries so that oil-rich Russia actually has a fuel crisis. And they're also hitting the factories of Russia's mega-store Wildberries, called Russia's Amazon.
Wildberries itself might go bankrupt from having $4 billion of the stock stored at its warehouses destroyed. The company itself is worth only $9 billion.
Russian banks are limiting customers from withdrawing their money and oligarchs are warning that a bank crisis is coming. A Wildberries bankruptcy might collapse the whole system.
The war is going very badly for Russia. It turns out their vaunted army was third-or-fourth rate. Their equipment just doesn't work well and sometimes doesn't work at all. This is due to Russia's relative poverty and backwardness and probably also due to governmental corruption.
The CIA director estimates that the average life expectancy of a Russian soldier at the Ukraine front is... thirty minutes.
The war is extremely unpopular in Russia. So unpopular that Putin has flinched from using Russia's big advantage, its huge population advantage. So far, Russia is mostly using ethnic minorities from the peripheral states it dominates as well as prisoners and the sick. He pays people an $80,000 signing bonus -- and that's dollars, not rubles -- which is a huge amount of money in Russia.
He does not want to draft ethnic Russians, especially those living in the cities and the middle or intellectual classes.
But with a 30 minute life expectancy, it's getting harder and harder to field men for Putin's "three day Special Military Operation."
Reports say that after the elections, when he feels his power is safe and he won't have to face the public for another couple of years, he will in fact order a big draft to bring 500,000 fresh draftees into the army.
That might be enough to finally break Ukraine... or it might wind up breaking Putin. Russia does have a tendency towards coups, especially during unpopular wars.
Thousands of Africans Flood Past Weak Fencing to Enter Spanish City of Ceuta, Saying "Goodbye Morocco, Hello Spain;" The Socialist, Open Borders Government Refuses to Halt the Mass Illegal Migration
I think this town is on the African side of Gibraltar.
Hundreds of migrants swim to Spain's Ceuta territory from Morocco
Ceuta (Spain) (AFP) -- Hundreds of migrants entered the Spanish north African exclave of Ceuta on Thursday, AFP reporters saw, many of them having swum by sea around the frontier fence.
Migration from Morocco into Spain's two north African territories, Ceuta and Melilla, has long been a politically sensitive issue between the two countries, as thousands cross the border at times.
AFP reporters saw a stream of adults and children, most of them wet, entering the town. Discarded flotation rings and clothes had been left on the shore near where the frontier barrier meets the sea.
The president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, said Wednesday that 1,500 migrants had come to Ceuta by sea in the past few days.
"We are in a situation of total humanitarian and social emergency," he said in comments broadcast Thursday by Spanish television.
Earlier, he had said that the reception centres were saturated as the number of people entering was more than 200 a day.
"There is no more room for anyone," he said.
Officials could not immediately be reached on Thursday to give more recent figures.
Gathering in Morocco
Migrants walked cheerfully through the streets of Ceuta, thanking the Spanish police and calling out: "Bye bye, Morocco, hello Spain."
Police and Civil Guards in Ceuta appeared to do little to intervene, though some officers attempted to direct the arrivals to the local migrant reception centre.
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On the Moroccan side of the border, an AFP reporter on Thursday afternoon saw hundreds of people including children gathered near the border between Ceuta and the local town of Fnideq, waiting to cross into the Spanish territory.
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Sanchez's right-wing political rivals immediately pressured him on Thursday over the migrant arrivals.
"The government cannot look the other way regarding its duties because we are facing a national security crisis," said opposition Popular Party leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo on X.
Far-right Vox party leader Santiago Abascal on X blamed Sanchez personally for the migrant influx in Ceuta.
Ceuta and Melilla have Europe's only two land borders with Africa.
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Thousands of migrants from Morocco poured over the country's border with Spain and into the country's African enclave of Ceuta after swimming around border barriers to reach the territory.
The latest wave comes after more than 1,500 migrants arrived in Ceuta by sea over the past week, according to regional authorities.
Ceuta's leader is now urging Spain's national government to declare an emergency as the enclave faces another major surge at the European Union's only land border with Africa.
This border breach comes at the same time as President Trump sounds the alarm about the rising number of migrants coming from Africa and other parts of the world who he says are "invading" European countries.
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BREAKING:
🇪🇸 An "absolute migratory emergency" has been declared in Spain's enclave of Ceuta after a massive surge of illegal migrants.
Hundreds of Moroccan and Algerian migrants who flooded the Spanish enclave yesterday breached the border fence today without control.
In recent days, more than 1,500 migrants, including adults and minors, reached Ceuta by sea, swimming from Morocco and overwhelming border security.
Today they completely overwhelmed local forces, leaving reception and juvenile centers fully saturated.
With resources exhausted, Ceuta's government demanded that Spain declare a national emergency and send the military to suppress the crisis.
Spain's far-left PM Pedro Sanchez gave amnesty to 1,000,000+ illegal immigrants, and now hordes of unvetted men are storming across the border from Africa.
It’s the same playbook across the West. These people will destroy our civilization. pic.twitter.com/NcERXfTbPv
The Ceuta invasion is being coordinated by Facebook groups. @finkd
The flagship group description: "Ceuta by every route #hraga_ceuta -- Migration is an idea, and the idea does not die."
There are countless posts soliciting people to go with others. This is in clear violation of the Facebook ToS that prohibits content "offers to provide or facilitate human smuggling" or content that asks for "asks for human smuggling services."
WNBA Team Co-Owner Fined, Suspended for Harassing Teen Fans over Opposition to Men in Women's Sports
The Seattle Storm apologized after the team's co-owner Celeste Keaton harassed two teenage fans during a home game over their opposition to trans-identifying males participating in women's sports.
Keaton was fined by the WNBA and suspended from the Storm's next five home games for berating two teenage girls at Tuesday's game against the Indiana Fever. The girls were wearing "XX XY Athletics" shirts and holding signs expressing support for Sophie Cunningham, a Fever guard who has spoken out in support of fairness in women's and girls' sports.
"We apologize that this happened," the Seattle Storm said in a statement. "Everyone who attends a Storm game deserves to feel welcome, and we remain committed to creating an inclusive environment where every fan is treated with respect."
The girls' signs read, "Thank you, Sophie #8, for speaking up for girls!"
"Bravo to those girls for standing up for what they believe," Cunningham posted on X. "You'll be hearing from me soon."
In an interview after the game, the teenage girls told podcaster Brandi Kruse that Keaton swore at them until one of them broke down in tears.
"This older lady comes up to us and she asks, 'What are you guys doing?'" one of the girls told Kruse. "And she's like, 'Oh I hope Jesus can forgive you for what sin you've done.'" Then the woman called the girls "F***ing insane" and pointed to her head. One of the girls started sobbing.
"I've never been yelled at like that. I've had people hate on me on the internet, but it doesn't really affect me as much," she said. "That just took me by surprise because I thought she was going to be nice, and she just started screaming at us and cussing at us."
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When the girls later learned that the woman who swore at them was a co-owner of the Storm, they were shocked and disappointed. They said the rest of the game was difficult to sit through.
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When the group entered the stadium, they were heckled by fans who continued to boo Cunningham each time she touched the ball. Fans would also boo the girls when they took pictures before the game as well as between quarters.
That's what a Seattle Storm fan was heard yelling at teenage Sophie Cunningham fans.
The WNBA team's co-owner is also alleged to have berated the girls wearing XX-XY Athletics shirts and carrying handmade signs thanking Cunningham for her recent… pic.twitter.com/vQ1ekNJXyL
Seattle Storm co-owner and players harassed Sophie Cunningham fans who came to support her following her comments about keeping males out of girl’s sports pic.twitter.com/2aEZj5JSFK
The only consolation is that the sympathy people used to have for these monsters for being the "underdog" and "oppressed" is disappearing and people are seeing them simply as the monsters they are, deserving of whatever ill-fortune karma and their own hateful decisions bring on them.
Here's what I mean:
Seattle Storm fan SPIT in a Fever fan’s face after the Fever won.
I truly believe there is a safe space and love for EVERYBODY. Biological girls, biological boys, trans women, and trans men. Everyone is welcome at my table! You can disagree and still be kind.
Bravo to those girls for standing up for what they believe. You’ll be hearing from… https://t.co/gIVWhEHi3Q
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., ordered one of Dr. Anthony Fauci's attorneys removed from a Senate hearing Wednesday after the former White House chief medical adviser repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during questioning about the COVID-19 pandemic.
The confrontation unfolded before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where the Kentucky Republican had subpoenaed Fauci to testify about the origins of the coronavirus and the federal government's response to the pandemic, reports The Hill.
Before questioning began, Fauci criticized Paul, accusing the committee chairman of being intent on securing his prosecution.
"The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up in his words 'behind bars,'" Fauci said.
When Paul began questioning him, Fauci repeatedly declined to answer, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. He gave the same response to questions from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.
Meanwhile, the hearing briefly descended into a procedural dispute when one of Fauci's attorneys, David Schertler, repeatedly attempted to address the committee without being recognized by the chairman.
Paul said Schertler had been instructed not to sit at the witness table with Fauci and was not authorized to participate in the hearing, reports The New York Post.
"You will respect these proceedings. You were told not to sit at the table. You insist on sitting at the table, and we told you you would not be recognized. You are not invited here for testimony, sir. You are being disruptive," Paul told Schertler.
"Would you behave this way in a courtroom? No, because the judge would put you in jail. I can't do that today. But I can have you escorted from the premises," added Paul.
After Schertler continued trying to speak, Paul added, "There's a row behind you, sir. That's where you were told to sit … and now you're disrupting the proceedings."
"This is the way Anthony Fauci wants to be remembered: for a lawyer not listening to the rules," Paul continued. "That's the way you want to be remembered, and that's what you're going to do."
Paul then directed security to escort Schertler from the hearing room, saying, "Let the record state that Dr. Fauci will still have the advice of the other half a dozen attorneys that he brought along today."
I do not have enough disgust for the sanctimonious and megalomaniac "Doctor" Fauci and his shyster mouth piece Schertler.
I'll say this for Hitler. He was open and honest compared to Anthony Fauci. And that is my rant for the day.
So Anthony the Mini-Mengele Fauci pleaded the Fifth more than Joe Valachi. Well he certainly has more victims than Valachi and the entire mafia in its bloody history combined. As commenter Paul G. wrote over at CJN yesterday:
As I currently watch the Dr. Fauci’stein hearings, I cannot help but think that this could be one of the largest crimes of humanity in history.
I know that’s a long, far out analysis, but the breadth of outright lying by Dr. Fauci’stein, his funding of gain of function research outside the country, and then the cover up to shut down the world priming the U.S. CDC and NIH to be put under U.N. WHO control, thus surpassing our own Constitution.
Fauci’stein’s personality, mental make-up, ability to outright lie to the world, let alone the American people and to become some kind of Hero of Science deliberately resulting in the death of millions. The murderer’s at the Nuremberg Trials I feel were more truthful than Dr. Fauci’stein.
I don’t know where this leaves us, but a known mass killer will surely walk free and receive accolades and monetary awards for being one the Globalist’s flying monkey’s.
What a cowardly and shameful final chapter for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the Fifth 111 times in the Senate Wednesday even though he has a pre-emptive presidential pardon that gives him immunity from prosecution.
In the history of Congress, only a couple of mob bosses have invoked the privilege more.
“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights, under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,”
the Machiavellian career bureaucrat said over and over in the nearly three-hour hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
But Fauci’s silence rendered him a villain more powerfully than his usual sly deceptions.
Shameful, too, were the Democrats and their media handmaidens who continue to run cover for Fauci, singing his praises, and denying their flock the truth about a man who filled his pandemic diary with self-praise and celebrity worship while remaining callously aloof from the human suffering he had caused. . . What a cowardly and shameful final chapter for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the Fifth 111 times in the Senate Wednesday even though he has a pre-emptive presidential pardon that gives him immunity from prosecution.
If there were any true justice in this world, his final chapter would end with him strapped into a gurney in the death house of a federal prison, and a doctor declaring him dead after being given a lethal injection.
Alas, this is America 2026 and as we all know too well, real justice from a judicial system that has been thoroughly corrupted as a weapon of political repression against any opponent of Leftism/Socialism/Globalism and the Democrat agenda is nigh impossible to get. What the future holds in that regard, whether we see a reversal of that in our lifetimes or at least the lifetime of those who have much of their lives in front of them is to be seen.
We know the tired Iranian strategy by now. We might call it “theocratic rope-a-dope.” For the theocrats and their terrorist proxies, survival means outlasting Trump, waiting for the next cash-laden Democrat administration, and using “moderates” to play good cop while haggling away months. The mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps feign indifference even as their half-century, half-trillion-dollar investments in what is now essentially a vaporized military-industrial-nuclear complex continue to be destroyed.
The war has finally revealed the full extent of Iran’s vast conventional arsenal, nuclear program, and missile and drone industry.
The ship that Ukraine struck in the Caspian Sea on Saturday [July 25] contained components for drones and missiles on their way to Iran, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said in an interview with N12 on Sunday.
Iran claimed the ship was carrying civilian goods when it was attacked by Ukraine and accused Ukraine of seeking to expand the Russia-Ukraine war….
This stinks because yes for sure the Russians are in bed with the Iranians but also because it provides a mighty convenient excuse for those who have President Trump's ear to give military aid and assistance to Ukraine , which thankfully he has been loathe to do so far.
The United States and Israel are considering some form of a land blockade to crank up the economic pressure on Iran as the war against the Islamic Republic enters its sixth month, the Washington Free Beacon can report. The land blockade would complement the sea blockade that's been in effect for some time.
"What if you just block the land? Suppose Iran can't bring anything in, cannot take anything out," a senior Israeli official told the Free Beacon—raising one possibility the two countries have been discussing.
“This rule will shorten the total time that it takes asylum officers and Immigration Judges to adjudicate asylum applications,” a news release from USCIS states. “Among other reasons, USCIS is making this change to reduce the asylum backlog.” DHS to Fast-Track Asylum Decisions, Cutting Massive Backlog Left by Biden
The fact that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has lasted for decades in some cases illustrates how much the system is abused, given that “temporary” is literally in the name. Democrats just like to use TPS to bring in hordes of foreigners who will provide cheap labor and change demographics while never actually obtaining U.S. citizenship. It’s a scam that burdens Americans, costing taxpayer money and jobs, not to mention the fact that some of these TPS holders turn out to be criminals. Connecticut Gov. Edward Lamont (D) is sabotaging Americans to help TPS holders. Connecticut Governor Allocates Millions in Taxpayer Cash for TPS Aliens (What the Duke said he'd do to Ned! - jjs)
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s rulers are not playing to win the war today—they are playing to survive long enough to fight another one tomorrow. The Iran War at the Crossroads
Israel marks his clearest breaking point; Fetterman has warned that he would leave the Democratic Party if it formally became anti-Israel. He has no interest in becoming a Republican, leaving independence as the likely route. Fetterman Votes With Democrats, Then Defies Them When Courage Counts (Yes on this but courage always counts, on every issue!!! - jjs)
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
As Democrats struggle to articulate what they stand for, new polling finds that work, responsibility, and public order remain a winning agenda. Bill Clinton Was Right About Welfare
“It’s considered one of the worst airports anywhere in the world. We’re going to make it maybe the best with some hard work,” Trump said at the White House event. “We’re gonna make this something special.” Trump Unveils $22 Billion Plan to Fix Dulles Airport’s Notorious Design Flaws (Meh, Duck Fulles - jjs)
The bill has sparked backlash with critics warning it could set a precedent for government hiring based on group identity rather than merit. The bill is likely to create tension between state and federal government, especially since the Trump administration has pushed to end DEI across the United States. Back in February, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit gave the administration the go-ahead to end DEI programs within federal contracting. Dem Lawmakers Launch DEI Program Prioritizing Muslims for State Employment.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
“Absent this Court’s intervention, the sitting President is facing nearly a hundred million dollars of personal liability for conduct that was well within the scope of his federal office. That alone deserves this Court’s attention,” the DOJ wrote in its filing to the Supreme Court. Trump Department of Justice Appeals E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit to the Supreme Court
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
In many of these cases, the victim is publicly hanged from a construction crane, an especially slow and painful execution method." And that doesn't even mention the extrajudicial killings of pro-democracy protesters. President Trump has said between 30,000 and 52,000 of them were murdered this year by the Iranian regime, many shot in the forehead. ‘Public Executions Are Extremely Rare’ in Iran, the New York Times Claims, Inaccurately (yes, they're mostly well-done - jjs)
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Nine voting members of the Fed’s monetary policy unit, the Federal Open Market Committee, voted to keep rates unchanged. Three regional presidents dissented, preferring to increase the benchmark rate by one quarter of a percentage point. John Williams, the New York Fed president, and Anna Paulson of the Philadelphia Fed, voted with the majority, as did all seven Fed governors. A Divided Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady
The renewed investment gives the GOP a formidable new asset heading into November. GOP super PACs and committees already hold more than a $300 million cash advantage over their Democrat counterparts, a figure that does not include the $400 million sitting in Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC. Musk Revives Super PAC, Pledges Major Push to Boost GOP Turnout in Midterms
The allegations raise questions about Talarico’s adherence to electoral law and his decision to seek re-election via the 50th House District back in 2022. This adds to a series of scandals and controversial reports that have rocked Talarico’s campaign. Given the tight race between Talarico and State Attorney General Paxton, this revelation could influence undecided voters. Ken Paxton Alleges James Talarico Committed Election Fraud.
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl voted to order the closure of all restaurants in the county, then left that very meeting and went to dinner at Il Forno in Santa Monica. There Were Thousands Of Faucis
“The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he [Rand Paul] is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, ‘behind bars.'” Fauci Invokes 5th Amendment, Declines to Testify in Senate Hearing
“You became a narcissist and a megalomaniac and a liar, and you’ve lied to the American people, and you’ve lied to this body, and you’ve disgraced your profession by doing it.” Hawley Blasts Fauci: ‘You Got Rich While People Were Dying’
Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, received a pardon courtesy of Joe Biden's autopen. But even should Republicans fail to prove the illegitimacy of that pardon, it would not protect him from charges at the state level. Florida Announces Investigation Into Fauci Since His Pardon Isn't for State Charges
Boy George released a new song on July 29, “We Will Dance Again,” or Od Nirkod in Hebrew, about the Nova Music Festival — one of the scenes of Hamas’ massacre of Jews on Oct. 7, 2023. It opens with lyrics so refreshingly direct in their moral clarity — “You say genocide, I say war / When you’re attacked, that’s what the army’s for / Does it get ugly? You bet it does / When I know you wanna kill every last one of us” Boy George Chooses Truth Over the Anti-Israel Mob
A film memorializes the bloody civil resistance to the French Revolution. ‘Victory or Death’
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Well, it didn't, and wouldn't have at all if it hadn't previously blocked the acquisition of US company iRobot by US company Amazon leaving the market to Chinese competitors. And they're only being blocked over well-founded fears of being used for surveillance just like every other thing in our lives these days with more functional purpose than a Chia Pet.
If you like your Roomba you can keep your Roomba, and existing models of Roomba can continue to be imported, but new models of Roomba - and of any other imported robot - will need to be certified.
Why would the US government consider robots to be a security ris-
U.S. company Satyress is developing threehalves, a centaur-style robot designed for dangerous environments such as wildfires, rubble searches, toxic areas and confined spaces. The system combines a humanoid upper body with a quadruped mobility platform. #USA#Robotics#UGV#AIpic.twitter.com/ViPprQ1lrZ
Only problem is that it runs an in-house Kirin XE90 Arm CPU, which has decent multi-threaded performance thanks to its 10 dual-thread cores, but pretty lousy single-threaded performance. Expect performance like a 2017-era laptop in that regard.
Speaking of which, I just realised that the new Minisforum NAB9S has a 13900HK CPU rather than a 13900HX. So while it is a current model that takes DDR4 SODIMMs (of which I have an abundance) and is a fair bit faster than my existing hardware that uses that memory, it is also a fair bit slower than the full HX model.
It's also relatively inexpensive because it's available as a barebones model, and has a 2.5" bay for a SATA SSD if I should happen to find where mine have gone.
Gemma 26B requires 52GB of VRAM to run as it ships with 16-bit values. The process squimshes it down to 4-bit quantisation and then caches the core (using about 2GB of RAM in total) and streams the rest from SSD.
Which is great because while you can certainly run Gemma 26B-A4B (4-bit quantised) on a 16GB graphics card without hacks, this sort of trick would allow you to run some 200B parameter models on the same hardware - the scale where AI models stop being stupid and useless.
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. No Dr. Pepper. Sorry. But each patron gets a free restroom token as compensation.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Everyone probably needs a cleanse from Fifth Amendment Fauci, so let's stipulate that he is an evil, narcissistic fraud and avoid letting his existence burn any more of our brain cells.
Lots of ugly out there. Hold fast to what is right and true. May the Horde find common cause, comfort, and refuge from the maelstrom in the AoS corner of the interweb. Prayers for all among the Horde. Your admission to the ONT is authorized. Welcome.
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Impressive skill at an impressive building:
Probably apocryphal, but there is story that goes something like this:
Young German tour guide at the Cologne cathedral: "It was a miracle that the cathedral stood through the bombing of the city during World War II!"
Seasoned American voice from the back of the group: "Ahem. We left it standing because it was a visible way point into Germany and back home for our bombers. It was not a miracle."
If you visit, say hello the Three Wise Men. They are reportedly resting at room temperature in a gold box behind the altar.
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Anyone ever get a traffic ticket in McBee, South Carolina? Not naive to think this kind of thing doesn't happen, but it is egregious in any time and place. Shows how badly things can go wrong when some people get access to power. Predators that abuse public positions of power deserve tar and feathers. At least roadside bandits don't pretend to uphold the public trust.
Multiple current and former members of the McBee Police Department turned themselves in to agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) on Monday morning in Chesterfield County.
One person who did not surrender Monday was former Officer Jerriell Wright. Wright contacted Queen City News Chief Investigative Reporter Jody Barr in December 2024, just three months after he was shot at 62 times in an ambush following a Sept. 19, 2024, traffic stop in town.
Wright provided months of text messages between himself, former Lt. Greg Block, and McBee Mayor Glenn Odom - messages that Wright said provided evidence that the mayor and former McBee Police Chief Mike Irvin implemented a 10 tickets per shift quota in the one-stoplight town.
Wright's messages also showed the mayor was critical of Block's lack of ticket production. To satisfy the mayor, Wright said McBee Town Councilman Robbie Liles and current MPD Chief Timmy Knight ordered him to help Block by taking time out of his shift to write tickets using Block's login credentials to access the state's computerized electronic ticketing system.
Wright had text messages to underpin a lot of what he alleged happened. His months of text chains with the mayor showed Glenn Odom's lust for traffic tickets and the $440 fine variety, according to Wright. The mayor, he said, was never satisfied, no matter how high his daily ticket totals climbed.
"Basically, he was saying I ran a red light, which I never passed through the red light. He said I was speeding... I never passed through the intersection," Jackson told me in a March 2026 interview at his jobsite in Longs, S.C. I showed Jackson the same photographs I showed every other person we contacted.
"I was explaining to him I never passed to the light. And he said, I'm not going to argue with you. I can impound your vehicle and take you into custody and stuff. So, I just let it be and kind of went on and took the tickets and paid the tickets," Jackson said.
Let's change the tone to something more upbeat. Where Eagles Dare is a great drumming songs. Who better to explain how it works than Nicko McBrain?
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ONT Movie Night
You can have the Odyssey movie (or most anything else that Hollywood makes). I'll take Airplane.
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Uncanny Expeditions. Anders primarily devotes his channel to going as far as legally possible on public land to see activity in an around Area 51 and 52. He has traveled to locations around the Mojave and New Mexico as well. His journeys often attempt to debunk or resolve rumor and myth rather than amplify them.
He is not afraid to drive, hike and camp well off the beaten path. He researches the history of specific facilities to explain when they were built, how they developed and what they were used for. His approach is one of curiosity and tangible evidence. For example, rather than just reading about a crash location in a remote location, he travels to see what remains after the clean-up.
His videos often include glimpses of helicopters, fighter jets, Janet flights and even F-117 flights.
Yes, the "authorities" are very aware he exists.
His channel has over 206k subscribers and some of his videos attract over a million views. Some of the footage isn't dramatic but documents activity or lack of activity. It also illustrates just how vast and rugged the landscape is.
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The Pittsburgh police scanner is back! Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
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Ella Langley for the big ONT finish:
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The post displays a heartwarming video of an orangutan named Suryia playfully interacting with, carrying, and bottle-feeding tiger cubs at Myrtle Beach Safari in South Carolina.
Filmed in 2015, the clip shows the male orangutan mimicking human caretakers after they bottle-fed rejected cubs, leading to daily supervised play and bonding sessions.
Replies question if the footage is AI-generated, but it is authentic and predates current AI video tech, having amassed tens of millions of views over the past decade.
The Department of Education is investigating the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) over the potential use of transgender dolls in schools. The investigation was launched Wednesday in response to complaints about "MyGender Dolls," a product designed to encourage transgenderism through the use of toy dolls.
Earlier this week, controversy erupted after multiple outlets reported that transgender dolls with interchangeable genitalia would be debuting in Minnesota classrooms this fall, funded by taxpayer dollars. The dolls reportedly originated as a University of Minnesota project through its medical school, which receives $15 million in state funding. An undisclosed amount is also dispersed to its Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, which has a total budget of $1.4 million. The dolls became a marketable product, called MyGender Dolls, marketed to "professionals who support trans and gender diverse children in clinical and educational settings."
The Department of Education is investigating to ensure the MDE is in compliance with the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), which restricts federal funding for schools that force students to engage in activities forcing them "to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation" on their "sex behavior or attitudes." The amendment is targeted at preventing schools from hiding name and pronoun changes from parents, as well as transition plans. A complaint filed by parents through Defending Education prompted the federal investigation by highlighting potential violations of multiple federal policies.
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[Secretary of Education Linda] McMahon continued, saying, "No four-year-old should be exposed to such material -- especially without a parent's knowledge or consent. ED will enforce the law to its fullest extent, putting parents and families firmly in the driver's seat of their child's education."
Emily Buss, the Communications Director for Minnesota's Department of Education, disputes the claim about the dolls being used in schools, calling it "patently false." "The paper-cutout dolls will not be implemented in Minnesota K-12 public schools. They are intended for use by licensed professionals and clinicians. This is a University of Minnesota-led initiative, and the Minnesota Department of Education is not involved," she said.
That's a lie. Adult "clinicians" do not play with paper dolls in order to understand sex change operations. The paper dolls are designed to be used to show to children.
And the MyGender Dolls website admits this:
The MyGender Dolls website explicitly states that the dolls are a "first-of-their-kind therapeutic play approach designed for gender diverse children ages 4--10."
But how could you keep him out of a women's locker room? As you can see from the photos that run with that story, he looks exactly like a woman. It's uncanny!
The only way to check his gender would be to forcibly reach down his pants, AOC tells me. You can't tell from his masculine ugly face nor from his five o'clock shadown nor from from his male-pattern obesity. No only invasive "genital checks" could possibly reveal his actual sex.
A transitioning son accused of killing his mother inside a Laguna Beach home bludgeoned her to death with a hammer -- with the alleged murderer's grandmother discovering the bloody aftermath, authorities said.
Police responded to the rental home of Safford James Wolfson, 36, around 11 a.m. on July 20 after Wolfson's grandma entered the residence and found blood-spattered floors and smashed furniture, prosecutors revealed.
Investigators said Wolfson's grandmother first found Wolfson lying on the floor covered in blood before discovering the body of Angela Caprioli, 61, in a bedroom with severe blunt-force injuries to her head and face.
Wolfson's grandmother called 911, with cops and medics arriving and taking Wolfson to the hospital with self-inflicted injuries to his neck.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Wolfson faces murder charges as well as a felony enhancement for using a deadly weapon.
"It is heartbreaking to think that someone could so violently end the life of the very person who gave them life," Spitzer said.
Wolfson is currently being held in lieu of $1 million bail. His arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 1 in Orange County.
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Neighbor Dustin Pettit told The California Post that he witnessed Wolfson and Caprioli involved in a tense argument at the home before the alleged killing.
"I saw her outside talking with him and it seemed like a pretty hostile conversation," he said.
"She turned around and went inside and slammed the door, like she was fed up with whatever was going on. I was like, 'What the hell is going on here?'"
I don't understand -- I was insistently informed that "gender affirming care" cured the myriad mental illnesses that "trans" people have. And yet... they seem to get worse, not better.
It's a real mystery no one can solve because No One Is Allowed to Solve It.
Parricide--the killing of one's parents--is a recurring theme I found in my years of reporting on trans violence.
Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Zizian trans death cult, where it was elevated to a religious-like tenet. Members believed it was righteous--even a duty--to take revenge against "transphobic" parents.
Pre-order my true-crime investigation here: https://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-ng
o/the-zizians/9780316599030/
Last year, Collin "Mia" Bailey was convicted of m--rdering his parents in Utah. He is one of many, many trans people who have killed their parents.
Bailey blamed his mother for allegedly interfering with his planned trans surgery. He believed she contacted the hospital to warn staff that he had serious issues requiring attention. As revenge, he decided to kill his entire family--even though he admitted his father had supported him.
After fatally shooting his mother and father, Bailey also fired into his brother's bedroom but narrowly missed.
On social media, trans activists praised Bailey and called for his release. "Free Mia," they wrote.
For trans radicals, parricide is not merely excused--it is socially validated. They encourage one another to stockpile firearms, "bash back," and kill "transphobes."
Their ideology casts biological family as an obstacle to be replaced with a new "family" of fellow "dolls." http://ngocomment.com
Parricide—the killing of one’s parents—is a recurring theme I found in my years of reporting on trans violence.
Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Zizian trans death cult, where it was elevated to a religious-like tenet. Members believed it was righteous—even a… pic.twitter.com/HFAa5OuV6E
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 28, 2026
I'm telling you, this "gender-affirming medicine" is something else. It's a Doctor Strange reality-warping spell in a pill.
Update: Trans person Safford Wolfson is accused of bludgeoning his mother to death with a hammer at a home in Laguna Beach, Calif. Wolfson’s grandmother found blood splattered all over the residence.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton discuss the Berlin attack, Iran...Again! Sefton's mini Odyssey review, Data Republican's blockbuster reveal about the DNC, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click She's totally committed to major independence
She's a lady through and through
She gives them quite a battle, all that they can handle
She'll bruise some, she'll hurt some too
Podcast: Illegals registered and voted in NJ! Leftist violence is baked into the Democrat cake, Iran's capabilities are being degraded, Londonistan? And...come on SC...no senate dynasties!
FDA is providing an update regarding the sample of lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico which was reported positive on July 18, 2026. Due to the complexity in detection of Cyclospora, FDA laboratory experts re-reviewed the sample results and have concluded that the finding does not represent true amplification and should be considered a false positive. Information about the sample has been removed from the July 18, 2026, update below. FDA has notified Taylor Farms and continues working with the firm to ensure product implicated in this outbreak has been removed from the market. FDA and state partners continue to collect and analyze product samples. As of July 19, 2026, there are no confirmed positive sample results for product testing for Cyclospora.
Podcast: Trump Slaps Mullin down; he wants the auto stops to continue, we need employment enforcement at our big corporations, The gerontocracy in the Senate, the Iranian junta is true to form, but Trump responds forcefully, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Northern Lights Division
Our topic today is music That's right, like
'Cause my brother and I are now experts in the field, eh
Yeah, right, 'cause we're a band now
Uh, yeah, so Except for him, I'm a band
Aw, how can you do that?
You're making me look bad
You're such a Hosehead
CNBC ranks Tennessee as dead last in its “Worst States to Live” analysis. The specific reason is that cross-dressing men in TN are denied access to children and women’s private spaces. Texas finished 49th. The “worst” states were all red states. [Buck]
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